A990 Super Stockers

[Hemi Moose]

Originally Posted by gregwho

Actually, Walt never owned my car and it never sat in his yard. Boy that's a good one! Walt was a mentor of mine in those days at Chrysler. I spent allot of time "picking his brain" he is a great guy and was always willing to share the info I was looking for.
This car was originally a "doner" car for an altered WB car built at Branster's shop for Roger Lindamood. The car was originally "given" to Ron Mancini as a body in white roller. Ron didn't do anything with it, he was building his 68 Dart and Hoover decided I could put it to good use. I got the car with a crashed 65 4 door car for $300 from Ron.
I put the car together with all my own stuff. Don't get me wrong, Allot of good people at Chrysler helped me learn real fast what I needed to know to screw a competitive car together and have a shot. I am forever great full for everyone that helped and the great friendships that have endured.
Hope this helps, I don't blog much but when I ran across this "description" I had to try and set it straight.
Greg

So do you own this car now, if so how long have you had it...tell us more about the Dick Branster connection or the Mancini's, do you have any good stories from back then that you might recall.

[gregwho]

Originally Posted by Hemi Moose

So do you own this car now, if so how long have you had it...tell us more about the Dick Branster connection or the Mancini's, do you have any good stories from back then that you might recall.

No, I sold the car sometime in 1973, I heard that Ron Cheshier owned it for a while and lost track of it. If anyone knows where it is, let me know. It was a very original A990 when I ran it. I never evan tied the subframes together and it did start to "bend" as they would.
Ron Mancini worked in the trans lab back then and I was the new kid in the Dyno Lab (next building over) 1967. I found Ron and used to sneek awy from my lab and we would bench race allot. All I wanted to do back then was DRAGRACE, anything at all, it was a true passion. I'm sure I drove everyone nuts. I literally almost lost my job at Chrysler because of all the time off for racing. I would go to allmost every test day at Detroit dragway or Milan when the Racegroup would rent the track. Yea, I had the Dream Job, everything just kinda fell into place. Early on I had a 440 maxwedge Plymouth that I would take to the test days and make about 50 or so runs in a day. Got a lot of practice with the 4spd.
Oh well, great fun! Thanks for the intrest.
Greg

[Charlie A]

Originally Posted by gregwho

No, I sold the car sometime in 1973, I heard that Ron Cheshier owned it for a while and lost track of it. If anyone knows where it is, let me know. It was a very original A990 when I ran it. I never evan tied the subframes together and it did start to "bend" as they would.
Ron Mancini worked in the trans lab back then and I was the new kid in the Dyno Lab (next building over) 1967. I found Ron and used to sneek awy from my lab and we would bench race allot. All I wanted to do back then was DRAGRACE, anything at all, it was a true passion. I'm sure I drove everyone nuts. I literally almost lost my job at Chrysler because of all the time off for racing. I would go to allmost every test day at Detroit dragway or Milan when the Racegroup would rent the track. Yea, I had the Dream Job, everything just kinda fell into place. Early on I had a 440 maxwedge Plymouth that I would take to the test days and make about 50 or so runs in a day. Got a lot of practice with the 4spd.
Oh well, great fun! Thanks for the intrest.
Greg

Found the car in this link when Ron Cheshier owned it.

http://www.midsouthracers.com/forum/...topic=28429.15

[Hemi Moose]

So what does this '65 A990 Belvedere look like today...does it still have the same Mopar Performance paint on it or was it repainted to look like someone else's nostalgia car...does anyone here know for sure.

[WH23H6]

Originally Posted by Hemi Moose

So what does this '65 A990 Belvedere look like today...does it still have the same Mopar Performance paint on it or was it repainted to look like someone else's nostalgia car...does anyone here know for sure.

Im 99% sure that this is the same car now...

[Hemi Moose]

So does anyone here know the race history of this '65 Belvedere, was it a real A990 car or not, and who were some of the previous owners of it...

[James L Miller]

I was thinking that the Hale '65 went to Southland and then to Tim Hebert? The 5-50 car sure looks like the Hale car in red though. These Hemi cars seem to get traded around in a small circle of racers.

[Hemi Moose]

Originally Posted by Charlie A

Found the car in this link when Ron Cheshier owned it.

http://www.midsouthracers.com/forum/...topic=28429.15

Nice find on the '65 A990 Coronet that some other people were talking about earlier...

[gregwho]

Originally Posted by Hemi Moose

Nice find on the '65 A990 Coronet that some other people were talking about earlier...

Sure looks like the old girl. I was under the impresion that Ron Cheshier changed the paint before he ran it. Hard tio tell from the pic, looks like he changed to his name on the door. Wonder if he changed the rear plate to "RON WHO ?"
Nice find, thanks............anyone have anymore info or pics, I have a few I can get on here later.
Greg