Just Bought a 69 Z28 Project

[tom406]

Well, this gets a lot more interesting to me as well. I have an uncle who I used to make tell me all of his handful of street racing stories from back in "the day". He spent the summer of 1969 running back and forth between home in St. Paul MN and training at Ellsworth AFB in Rapid City SD. He had a 1968 Coronet R/T 440/auto that had enough torque to handle most comers and was geared tall enough to do top end runs (I'm guessing 3.23s) He only recalled getting soundly beaten a couple of times. Once was by a girl in a new big block Stingray on the highway, and the other was by a 442 with "Mother Skunk" written down the side. When he told the story, it sounded like he was beating the locals and then got "hustled" by a car that seemed to pull the wheels at launch. I just found a picture of Ron's black 68 W30 and sent it to him, thinking it had to be the same car. He just sent me a text and replied that the car he raced was white, not black:

"Wow that is weird. The “Mother Skunk” that I remember was owned by an airman from somewhere in the southern US-I believe Alabama, or Georgia. It was a white 442 with a Mother Skunk decal ( a mom and 2 baby skunks) behind the front wheels. I can’t remember the name of the guy who owned it, but he had it trailered up to Ellsworth Air Force Base, outside of Rapid City. He smoked my 68 Dodge Coronet R/T 440, on 8th street. I remember we called the owner Everclear Andy, because he only drank everclear stingers, which I think was everclear and creme de menthe. That’s funny, good memories. That would have been summer of 1969."

Gotta be a connection. Two ripping 442's in the state of SD in the summer of 69 both named "Mother Skunk".