2005HHRauto

Dodge marketing did me in, back in the fall of 1967...

The Scat-Pack lineup of colorful cars, with bumblebee stripes, & scoops.
But especially the star of the lineup, the 1968 Charger R/T, with the big, honking, HEMI power plant…

The 1968 Charger design, was really special.
So different, & beautiful...
My 1st car, right out of high school, was a 2 year old 1969 440 Charger R/T,
took it to the track, & won a trophy with it, my 1st time out, to the track.
So then, I was hooked, on drag racing….

I went on, to own many HEMI, & MOPAR cars:
1968 HEMI 4sp Coronet SuperBee , 1 of 38
1970 automatic shaker hood, HEMICUDA , 1 of 600
1970 automatic HEMI Challenger 1 of 600, also, I think ?
1971 4sp, shaker hood, HEMICUDA, 1 of 104
1971 automatic HEMI Charger , rare , 1 of 2 sassy grass green ones made, it's in a museum in Atlanta, I think ?
Found it, it's in the Wellborn Museum
Tim Wellborn to auction off half of Wellborn Musclecar Museum collection | Hemmings Daily
1965 automatic Dodge, with a HEMI transplant.
1974 360 4sp CUDA, my 1st new car, & within a few months, transplanted,
the HEMI drivetrain, from my 1970 HEMICUDA, into it...
1971 340 4sp, shaker hood, CUDA converible, 1 of 27
1970 340 automatic Duster
1974 440 automatic GTX/RoadRunner
1973 440 Charger

Ahhhh… the good old days, should've kept one of those HEMI cars...

1970judge

For me it was the typical story, where your dad is a car dude. By the time I was born my dad had given up all his cool stuff, and drove several 67-72 C10's when I was growing up. He still talked about the old cars he sued to have and such, and would take me to car shows, hooked ever since. The first car show I remember going to was a muscle car show in Lake Charles , LA when I was around 7 or 8. I picked out a 1970 GTO Judge as my favorite, and although I am a Camaro guy, that Judge is still a car I will always want.