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Old 08-21-2011, 04:02 PM
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Default Re: The red Hemi Charger saga continues...

Took her out for the first time this year (the last local cruise night in town for the summer).

Since it was "race car night", I put the original owner's set of 1970 15x4 and 15x7 Cragars on. Those 40-year old Parnelli Jones Firestones were no fun to drive on. On the drive over, I didn't go over 40 mph due to the fact that they have hardened into something resembling bakelite.

I even had a bunch of trouble trying to just get out of the garage this afternoon. The car wouldn't back over the small 2&quot;x4&quot; block of wood I use as a wheel chock. The tires would just spin in place. It reminded me of those old AFX slot cars, you had as a kid when you tried to duplicate a real car doing a burn out by holding it in place and hitting the throttle. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/grin.gif[/img]







That 56 Vette in front of my car is owned by a buddy of the guy I bought the Charger from back in 1987. The car has been a race car for a few decades.
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