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High Adventure Hemi Kansas

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Thanks,

Does anyone know what happened to Bobby Harrop's A990?
I understand he won either his class or SS eliminator at Indy then promptly sold the car to focus on the AWB car....Flying Carpet.

JimR

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http://www.colesy-juniorstockforum.c...f5f1a37999d20fJim, I'm not sure but it looks like the '65 A990 sedan was slowly converted to an injected A/FX...looks like he sold it to someone else, while he built his '65 A/FX AWB hardtop.

http://www.forbbodiesonly.com/moparf...1&d=1331255986

http://www.draglist.com/draglist/adm...6.jpg&full=yes

http://www.draglist.com/draglist/adm...6.jpg&full=yes

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Here's a few more old black & white shots of some '65 A990's...

http://www.forbbodiesonly.com/moparf...1&d=1328587508

http://www.forbbodiesonly.com/moparf...1&d=1327984955

http://www.forbbodiesonly.com/moparf...1&d=1328588425

http://www.forbbodiesonly.com/moparf...1&d=1327984762

http://www.forbbodiesonly.com/moparf...1&d=1327984762

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A few more oldies of some '65 A990's...

http://www.forbbodiesonly.com/moparf...1&d=1328587807

http://www.forbbodiesonly.com/moparf...1&d=1328588013

http://www.forbbodiesonly.com/moparf...1&d=1327985299

http://classracer.com/classforum/pic...pictureid=5039

http://www.forbbodiesonly.com/moparf...1&d=1327984762

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Harrop's car was sold to a guy named Mike Hammer from New Jersey, who was a sales manager for a Pontiac dealer. He ran the car with little success for a year or two and then it disappeared. I remember Harrop was booked in to Englishtown for a match race using his current car, broke it and borrowed his original car back from Mike to run the race.
He put his injectors and tires on it and picked it up a full second.
I think that's when Mike decided to sell it.

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The High Adventure was sold to Craig Jackson of Barret-Jackson. I bought it directly from him stil painted as the High Adventure Car. I traded it to Engelhart to get the Velvet Hammer Car. The High Adventure is in Iowa. I talked to the current owner and have been meaning to sent him my information. The contract between Jackson and Mike Bogina.

John Labuse,The Laboose Cabosse became the High Adventuure car.
The serial # is RO51187247 was sold new as I recall in Montana.

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[ATTACH]109[ATTACH]Attachment 10919[/ATTACH]19[/ATTACH] Jared, Rich Johnson tells me you are Harry Holtan's grandson. I own the Valvet Hammer car. The history on the car is it was sold new at Thompson Motors in Chillicothe Missouri raced as the Mad Polock sold to Henry Brom in Minnesota raced as the Velvet Hammer. Henry died in the 90's, it when to John Becker and I bought from him. It is restored.

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Charlie,

Yes, my claim to fame as it were is being Harry's grandson. I love that guy, what more can I say?

I saw the picture of your car and thought it looked real similar to ours. I'm partial to red Belvederes!

By restored, do you mean period correct? I.E. tubs removed, etc...?

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Jared, give my regards to your grandad. I met him a couple of times in Belle Rose. He is certainly one of the nicest guys in racing. I had him autograph an old National Dragster I had from 1969 that had an article of him winning a race at Fremont. The crew got a big kick out of that.

Your mom was putting together a spreadsheet of the parts they were selling. That was a couple of years ago, but I never heard anything back. I ran out of money anyway and I figure most of it is gone by now.

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Here's some before & after shots of John Hagen's '65 A990 Belvedere Super Stocker...

http://www.forbbodiesonly.com/moparf...1&d=1328588323

http://www.forbbodiesonly.com/moparf...1&d=1328588323

http://www.forbbodiesonly.com/moparf...1&d=1328588323

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Jared, The car is restored to the day after come out of the dealership with 15x3.5 American Magnesium wheels, Stahl tires and 15x6 again American Magnesium with 8.50x15 M and H pie crust slicks.

I will try to post pictures when I figure out how.

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Does anyone here know what happened to the ex-John Hagen '65 A990 Plymouth Belvedere...it seems that it was repainted Red at some point and renamed...the car was in a wreck at a New York drag strip at some point, does anyone here remember that race or have anymore details on what happened exactly.

http://i.ebayimg.com/t/1965-DODGE-PL...Q%7E%7E_12.JPG

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1965-DODGE-P...item335865e6a3

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The passenger door was on ebay a few years ago. I won the bid but the guy wouldn't ship it. That hinge has been on ebay for years.

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Hemi Moose. looks like the old Owensboro Ky. drag strip. I was only 16 at the time but i was writing a newspater column at the time to give out the weekends results in return for free admission. Sure was a great time back then with Paul Lance and the 64 and 65 Ky colonel cars on hand, and the Kentuckian another 65 hemi car.

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Looking for info on a black 65 hemi plymouth that sold new in Belmar NJ. Car was later owned by Bucholz from northern Minnesota

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blakkmaxx...I remember seeing some old pics of the '65 Coronet 'Kentucky Colonel' A/FX AWB car...I think that car was found & restored and sold recently at a auction a few years back...if you have any old pics post'em.

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Here's one called 'Thunder II' '65 A990 Coronet...

http://i208.photobucket.com/albums/b...tock_1-800.jpg

http://i208.photobucket.com/albums/b...tock_3-800.jpg

http://www.forbbodiesonly.com/moparf...1&d=1328109134

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Do you recall if there was a name painted on this black '65 A990 Plymouth from NJ...

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All I know is I bought it from Donnie Chapman in WV about 10-12 years ago and prior to that it was titled to a guy from MN with a last name of Bucholz. Original Black car, good car.

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There was a guy named Frank Johanson in New Jersey who had 2 Mopars in the mid 60's, both black, a Max wedge and a hemi, both called Huckleberry Hound. He sold them both to 1 person but I don't know who that was. He then bought a 69 COPO 427 Camaro for SS/DA, ran it for a few years and sold it. Here's a pic of the Camaro.
http://classracer.com/classforum/att...1&d=1283096832

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No pix in my collection of Frank's Mopars, just his Chevy.

http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/9...berryhound.jpg

M68

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Huckelberry Hound today Original Red with Red interior, car was painted black by Frank

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Looks like that lead panned out then, so how did you positively identify it as being the car...nice looking '65 A990 Coronet, is it a auto or stick.

http://classracer.com/classforum/att...7&d=1331339873

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Chrysler Historical, Frank and all subsquent owners. Auto

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A friend of mine owns this...has had it for many years.....finished restoring it, showed it a bunch but couldnt resist making some trips down the track last year at Norwalk in Sept. Was really cool to see it...

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Here's an older shot the '65 A990 Coronet called 'Thunder II'...

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/a...1&d=1286222231

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Nice find Charlie, but I'm wondering if this was a real A990 car to start with according to this statement below...anyone here know for sure.

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Anyone know anthing about this one? A990 or not?

http://www.arkansasoutlawracing.com/...ceway0025c.jpg

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One more from the same group: A990 or not?

http://www.arkansasoutlawracing.com/...ceway0025b.jpg

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Charlie, it is the same A990 car that you posted earlier on in this thread...it was originally called the 'Texas Rattler'...but if you do a search on this '65 A990 car and read the story about it you will see what happened to it.

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Funny how the angle of a picture can throw off the idea I had already seen and posted that very car.
I read the restoration link.
What an outstanding effort!
From what they found to completed car......
I have done a restoration or two, or I thought I had.
Compared to that, I repainted something.
Post the link so the others can appreciate the work.

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Here's the link . Now that is complete dedication. Take the time to check it out.
http://www.garlandmotorsports.com/65-super-stock.html

liteweight

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Here's a few more photos and the story about the '65 A990 Belvedere called the 'Texas Rattler'... http://www.garlandmotorsports.com/65-super-stock.html

http://www.garlandmotorsports.com/pics/65_003.jpg

http://www.garlandmotorsports.com/pics/65_001.jpg

http://www.garlandmotorsports.com/pics/65_009.jpg

http://www.garlandmotorsports.com/pics/65_004.jpg

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Here's a few more pic's of the A990 before it met it fate...

http://www.garlandmotorsports.com/pics/65_010b.jpg

http://www.garlandmotorsports.com/pics/65_010c1.jpg

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After the crash and left sitting in a field abandoned & stripped of all it's original parts here's what it looked like after the restoration...it had the wildest looking factory exhaust ever made.

http://www.garlandmotorsports.com/pics/65_059.jpg

http://www.garlandmotorsports.com/pics/65_077.jpg

http://www.garlandmotorsports.com/pics/65_086.jpg

http://www.garlandmotorsports.com/pics/65_093.jpg

http://www.garlandmotorsports.com/pics/65_098.jpg

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That is Jimmy Johnson from Monroe LA. I think he got it from Bill Gibbs in about 1981-2. Kept it a while then Ron Cheshire had it. Don't know what happened to it after that. It was a
990 car.

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The Cheshire Dodge is posted a few pics back (post #188). I took this picture from a website that showed both of them at the track at the same time(I believe).
Maybe there was more than one that wound up in Pine Bluff, Ark.

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This is a picture of my great uncle Len Ford's Dodge he bought in 65. He sold Vanke's red "Tin Indian 1" to buy it. Anyone know about this car or what happened to it? My dad told me some stories about it being cut up but never knew what happened to it.