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MO’ SHOW TO THE MAX

Carlisle always hosts a great Mopar show, and this year was no exception. Special collections, (off-premises) eigth-mile drags, stars and cars—it was all there. Also there were Mopar Action’s very own Bruntczynowski Bros (Brunt, for shot), Nikolas (Nick) and Wilhelm (Bill) with their 1934 Kodak box camera, clicking away on outdated film, to bring all you viewers a sense of what it was like. ‘Course you would have missed walking around with the Brunts and hearing, through their interpreter, their American jokes (how many Americans does it take to change a light bulb?) We’re no longer allowed to print Polish jokes as we’ve already lost some 7,000 subscribers of Polish descent. You also could have shared some of their 4-day old Polish sausage that they carry around in their pocket (oops! There goes another subscriber). OK, Make that Hebrew National sausage.

In order to conserve space, we’re only showing you the pictures that came out. If you want to appreciate the full photo shoot, take a magic marker and draw 28 black boxes on your computer screen. If some of the photos look blurry, just give your computer monitor a sharp whack. For your convenience, we are printing the photo captions in English.

This original 5,600-mile ‘69-1/2 440-6 Road Runner survivor was purchased new on July 7, 1969 by Jin Brisson at Town & Country Dodge in Farmington Hills, MI, where his son worked and prepped the car for him. Jim owned the beeper until Jan. ’06. Jim had installed Motor Wheels’ Spyder wheels back in the day.

Big Daddy kept his Sharpie active signing posters, cars. Buildings and anything else fans could drag over to his booth. Big had his new Challenger Super Stock painted with special graphics so it would look different from all the other new challengers out there, and he could find it more easily in parking lots.

Another personality making an appearance at Carlisle was Jim McCraw. Jim was editor of Super Stock magazine back in ’69 when Ronnie Sox tested the first A12 (440-6) Road runner for their June ’69 issue. Jim is noted for his wonderful biting sarcastic humor—especially in his emails. We’d love to have him write for us but, alas, we can’t afford him.

Chris Bowen was looking to unload his supercharged slant six ’66 Dart GT for $6500 (OBO). Chris said that Doug Dutra had installed the blower, and that the car had a new Holley 450 carb and a rebuilt 8-3/4” 3.23 Sure-Grip rear and a bunch of other stuff.

This ’72 340/4-speed Challenger, one of 357 produced by Dodge, was bought new by Joey Campbell in Arlington, VA. Today, the car is owned by Matt Roux—Joey’s younger cousin. It is matching numbers with all its original sheetmetal, and it had one repaint in 2003.

You don’t seem many Dodge Spirits around with the “Evil Spirit” option that included a special shaker can and hand brush paint job. This 1994 daily drive features renderings of famous people who we’ve never heard of. If it’s not Al Jolson we’ve never heard of him. The Dodge is owned and operated by Brittney Schneck, who we’ve never heard of either. Be that as it may, this is one we‘d love to have in our driveway.

Richard Morris, of Lutherville, MD showed his all-original 23,600-mile 1970 Chrysler Hurst 300—car number 455 of 486 produced. Options include AM/FM8 track, A/C, cruise, leather, power seats and windows. His show sign is very informative so we’ve included it.

One of the many survivors at Carlisle was Dave Burdis’ 1983 Dodge Mirada CMX. It was originally bought by the Dodge dealer for his own car collection. Dave bought it in 2001 with 37K miles. Some 1841 CMXs were produced; and only 638 came with the Sport Equipment package. This was Chrysler’s last RWD V8 2-door car.

So you’re a van fan, eh? We found this one for sale in the swapmeet: a ’91 with a 318 and full custom interior Zoom tubes abd flame throwers. A real gem. Price was reduced from $5500 to $3995. Partial trades considered—so if you wanted to swap, let’s say a car that was only half there, he would consider it.

One of the rods in the car corral was this ’33 Dodge truck for 28 grand. Not show quality under the hood, but probably a good driver.

An indication of where used original parts prices are going is this ’69 Super Bee N96 Ramcharger air cleaner for $395.

Cervinis dresses up the new Challenger nicely with their C440 body kit. Note through-the-rocker exhaust.

The combination special order paint code with the options (no radio, heater-delete, blue-line tires, dog dish hubcaps) make this 1966 426 Hemi Belvedere II a one-of-one.