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Had a new 1974 Dodge Dart Sport in that color with Beige interior.

I grew up in Detroit from the 1940's to 1960's. I lived 3 blocks from Lynch Road Assembly (Plymouth plant), about a 1/2 mile from Dodge Main in Hamtramck and about 4 blocks from the Packard PLant. It was an everyday event to see car haulers going up and down the local streets. Around 1957 when I turned 13 me and my friends would ride our bikes down to the loading docks and watch all the cars being loaded on the car haulers and the trains for shipment. We would pick out our favorite cars which we would buy if we were old enough and just have a great time. It was really cool to see the new cars before they hit the showrooms. Most of my neighbors worked at one of these plants and the streets were filled with Mopars. I eventually ended up working at the Chrysler Tech Centers in Highland Park and Auburn Hills Michigan for 42 years in the Motorsports department. Awesome times in the auto industry.

It is a "stock" car...........you have to have A/C?

This Dodge was originally a Petty Superbird.................converted to a Dodge...............and then restored back to a Petty Superbird.

A lot has changed in the last 10 years. Nowadays you get kits from an actual hobby shop or a place like Ollies or Hobby Lobby or the internet. I remember when a lot of the big retailers like Walmart and Target and Meijer's and Kmarts had big model kit sections in their stores with paint and glue etc. Those days are long gone. I live in a suburb of Detroit and there is one super hobby shop on my side of town called Great Lakes Hobby and he carries every kind of hobby imaginable. I remember growing up as a kid in Detroit in the 1950's and early 60's we had a hobby shop called Lawrence's and AMT kits went for a whole dollar. But as we all know nothing stays the same.

This was on the Hemmings site today!!!!!!!!!

Here is a picture of the Chrysler Race Engine Group taken in 1978. There were 2 dyno operators, 4 engineers and 3 engine builders. I am sitting on the bench second from the right. We did all Race engine development, Hemi and non-hemi, for NASCAR and NHRA drag racing. Also, couple pictures of me running one of the Race dynos doing Pro Stock engine development for Bob Glidden when he ran a Plymouth Arrow. The engine is a 288" destroked 340" engine which we ran to 10,000 RPM doing testing. The last picture in color was the Race Engine Group in 2001 when we got back into NASCAR racing. I am on the far left.

Thanx!!!!!!!!! Just wanted to double check.

Got the 80 Petty Monte Carlo kit today. On the instruction sheet it doesn't give you instructions on what color to paint the parts. Is my kit missing some info??????????

YEP !!

Silver wheels are the way to go...........can't stand the black wheels that are out there today.

MOPAR OR NO CAR ! SWEET!

My wife's uncle was hit by the same teenage girl twice in one year. Both times he is sitting at a light and she runs into him while texting and chatting with her girlfriend. What are the odds of that????????? PS: I see you are in St Louis...............spent 2 months at beautiful Ft Leonard Wood outside of Rolla back in 1966 right before I went to Vietnam. Haven't been back since.?

In the picture of the open rat roaster manifold you will see ribs on the floor of the end runners, one on each side of the manifold. The original manifold didn't have those ribs and the fuel/air ratio on those end cylinders was all over the place. So we would epoxy popsicle sticks of different heights and thicknesses between those cylinders and run the engine on the race dyno at the Chrysler Tech center and try to even out the fuel/air distribution. Those ribs on the floor are the result of that work.

I am working on the same kit right now but I am stuck as there are no "uprights on the tree". Brand new kit. Don't understand what happened.??????

I worked at the Chrysler Tech Center from 1965 to 2007 in the performance engine/race engine development group. When I first hired in I was running a dyno doing carburetor calibration work on a 440. I had to work with an engineer from the Carb Lab which was a pretty big department at the time with 4 full size air flow benches, 4 car garage and many mechanics and engineers. There was also a full time rep from Holley and Carter working there also. They all had many funny stories about the infamous 200 mpg carburetor that supposedly the companies were hiding from the public so that the oil companies would get rich. I just remembered that when Chrysler brought out the 3.5L engine in our LH cars in the early 1990's the lead engineer of the Engine group went around the state to various news agencies promoting the car and engine. When he was in Grand Rapids a caller called in on the radio show and was very indignant that there was a 200 mpg carburetor out there and that it was a conspiracy between the car and oil companies that prevented it from being released.

I worked at the Chrysler Tech Center from 1965 till 2007 in the performance engine/ race engine development group. There was going to be a Hemi for 1972 (before insurance and regulations killed it) but it was going to be the 444" Ball Stud Hemi which I worked on. We had one engine installed in a 1971 Plymouth GTX and it was a runner. Engine displacement shown on machined boss on front of block below distributor mounting area. There was also going to be a 400" version also and we were going to eliminate the 383 and 440 engines.

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http://oldcarbrochures.org/United States/Pontiac/1964 Pontiac/1964-Pontiac-Colors--Interiors-Booklet/index.html

Here is a shot from the NASCAR archives:

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Looks like he had some leftover paint from Glotzbach's Daytona Charger! I kinda remember the story some rich dude wanted to see a GTO win a NASCAR race so he gave Ray a bunch of money to do it but it never happened.