Old Mopar photos
 

Time for the Mopar clan to enjoy their favorite old photos. Make sure you have plenty of time because there are hundreds of pictures on the site. Lots of the original old S/S Darts and Barracudas. Enjoy.

http://lightningjar.com/images/moparpics/old_race_cars/


Travis


(Disclaimer: The off season gets boring, so I'm surfing the internet looking for old photos for your viewing pleasure.)

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Thanks Travis!!

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Any Old Chevy Site ?

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Thanks for posting these Travis,,,, This proves if more of us send our old photos into the right people or places, we can all benefit from shots we took "back in the day". I recognized about 30 of these shots as taken through my viewfinder back in the 70s and 80s. Although I'm mostly a Chevy guy, there was always some great Mopars at the races, so you've got to shoot them too. I want to thank all the contributors who've sent in some great shots for all of us to enjoy. ( Yes,, I shot a lot of Fords also!)
Danny Durham

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Does anyone know what ever happened to the Paul Rossi SS/FA Dodge Challenger?
I saw a picture of it on another site with another drivers name on it, but? Did it end up
being sold overseas?

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Thanks Travis,

Great pictures and memories!

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The car went to a nordic country - I believe Sweden. The owner has a website and I believe he may have posted here and/or some other Mopar-related sites. If I find it, I'll post it. It was in England for a while also.

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That didn't take long!

http://www.moparperformance.se/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9U2mewOX5EQ

http://www.draglist.com/stories/SOD%...SOD-101901.htm

http://web.telia.com/~u87716002/eng/pix.html

http://www.ukdrn.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=552

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Danny,
A lot of those pictures came from one particular Yahoo group. It would have been nice if the gentleman would have posted the proper credit to the photographers. The information was supplied when the pictures were posted to the group.
Bob Rice

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I wonder if a rare photo of Wally Booth's SS/E 69 Dodge Super Bee (painted Booth Kelly Green of coarse) exists? I suppose my friend Bob Rice would know?!

MK

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I knew I saw it in Travis' link!
http://lightningjar.com/images/mopar...h68Coronet.jpg

Found this too.
http://lightningjar.com/images/mopar...WallyBooth.JPG

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I just saw this car the other day advertised for sale on a Mopar-related site or ebay!
(But I haven't been able to find it again.) :(

http://lightningjar.com/images/mopar...onprostock.jpg

http://lightningjar.com/images/mopar...tockdemon7.jpg

http://lightningjar.com/images/mopar...tockdemon4.jpg

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The Challenger (Paul Rossi) belongs to a great Mopar man in Stockholm,Sweden.Still competing in S/SS.

www.moparperformance.se

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If anyone is interested, I always loved Paul Rossi's Challenger, but was never able to find a nice pic of it. I think either Super Stock & Drag Illustrated or Popular Hot Rodding had an article on it with some black and white pics. I bought and sold Drag Racing Memorabilia for a few years and still do some selling on Ebay from time to time. I was on a site a while ago, and was able to find a link to auto imagery that had the most awesome pic of this car. I have it saved on AOL favorites, but don't know if this link still works. But try it. www.nhra.com/2007/gallery/pow/photo22.html. If it doesn't work maybe there would be some way for me to try to email it. It's the most gorgeous pic, front 3/4 shot launching, in color with the wheels in the air, I mean an absolutely breathtaking pic, especially be vintage. Let me know if the link works, to cut and paste. Frank Hamer Jr. NHRA Stock 1045

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Mike, The car is still around.A guy on Moparts.com was looking for info as he just bought it,and some had posted some old pictures too.

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I love the days when most of the cars had a name painted on the side. I always loved the name "Motown Missle!" Great stuff.

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Is'nt that Billy Stepp's old car?

Ed F.

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Chris,

I went to the site but didn't have much luck finding this guys post. Can you tell me exactly where to look on the site?

Thanks!

MK

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Mike,

This might be the thread that Chris was refering to. Lots of pics, info & leads!

http://board.moparts.org/ubbthreads/...0&fpart=1&vc=1

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Ed, It doesn't seem to be the same car. I believe his cars all had his name or "Billy the Kid" on them.
Here is a photo I found of his 'Demon:

http://www.prostockhemi.com/gallery2...?g2_itemId=198

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Thanks Myron,

I feel fairly certain that the photo in one of the posts is Booth's old 69 Bee. It would be a serious coincidence if there were another green one like that around! If it is the real deal I would restore it back to the way it was raced right down to the very last decal and then head for Barrett-Jackson!

MK

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I guess yor're right Myron.That paint job looks familiar
I just can't put a name to it.

Ed

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Speaking of Rossi's Challenger. I remember one year they put him right next to our B/SA car at Indy. As soon as he found out we were pitted next to him he packed up and moved. Tex and I took showers that morning so it could not have been BO.
I wonder why the abrubt move. LOL LOL

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I have a question about the purple Cuda of Stewart Pomeroy near the end of the page. Can anyone verify the history and/or the future of that car from the time that picture must have been taken.

I have been told that was an original Hurst/Sox and Martin car, later owned by Pomeroy, then sold to someone in the Ocala, Fl. area.

The first drag race I attended was a bracket race at Gainesville in early 1980, and there was a man named Tom Shively running a Hemi Cuda there at the bracket race, and I was told this was the car.

I know the car that Shively had was sold to someone else in the area then sold to another person in south Fla. and I am told the car was destroyed when the throttle hung open on the car inside of a garage.

Can anyone verify this?

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Bob,

Worse yet, many of these pictures came from people's personal collections that they've posted on the web for others to enjoy. I can tell you first hand that the ALL of the photos of the Motown / Mopar Missile, including the yellow car (small block duster), wire car, pictures of Don Carlton, pictures of my uncle racing, the Accel poster autographed by Joe Pappas and my uncle (I have a full-size framed poster hanging on my wall right next to me), and all the pictures of Nelson Des Champs came from the private collections of the above mentioned people, and Stewart Pomeroy, through the efforts of Stewart Pomeroy (heck, there's even a recent picture of Stewart Pomeroy, John Wehrly, Tom Coddington, and my uncle!)

Anyway, you can see a history of the Missile program here, which includes all of these pictures, that Mr. Pomeroy put together through many hours of hard work:

http://www.hamtramck-historical.com/...eroTests.shtml

I don't know if any of these guys will care or not, but they still should have been credited, or linked to, not posted on this person's website as their own. Interestingly enough, the owner of the site, Bob, also wrote a computer program called "Picture Poacher" to "easily extract images from various webpages and optionally save a copy locally for your own archives. The program came about as a result of my obsessive web picture collecting." Go figure.

I agree Earle. I was just saying that to somebody the other day as I was working on my nameless car. There was just something unique about all the cars having names. Since you like the Missile so much, here's one from my personal collection (thanks to Stewart Pomeroy for helping stitch the scan together):

http://oldfieldweb.net/70_Missile_Small.jpg

Joe, I e-mailed Stewart with your question. I would expect that he'll post an answer here shortly (and if he doesn't, I'll post the answer for him.)

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It is the old Shively car.It was also owned by Glenn Warfel,and if I'm right,Tom bought it from Glen.It's a old Sox& Martin A/MP car... IIRC.Tom sold the car to the Welch Brothers and from what I heard,is being restored back to the Sox & Martin timeframe.I don't know about it being involved in an garage accident. I do know it got ladder bars and was re-painted I think in 1981 or 82,

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Chris;

From what I have been told the car was purchased from Pomeroy by Caroll Fulford who lives in Ocala, and later Fulford sold it to Shively. Your version may be right though.

Thanks Jason for making the effort to give us some information on these old cars.

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I have a couple of pics of a purple cuda who was at Bowling Green (late 70's or early 80"s), and it was a SS/GA car #5547. The window on the passenger side says "Mary Ann".

I took the pic because of the wild paint job.

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Joe,your version may be correct too.You know after 20-30 years the story changes and the memory bank can get foggy.

When we first started racing at Gainesville in 1975,Shively was running that 'Cuda with a 440.

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Myron and Ed

That car looks an awful lot like Mevin Yowell's car. That was his paint style. It looks like the name has been taken off the door above the western scene. Maybe? Jim

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Jim;
I thing the paint scheme also had the silhouete of a coyote howling.

Ed F.

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OK, I just heard back from Stewart. This is what he had to say:

"yep, it was the S&M A/MP car --- after Pomeroy it went to Warfel and after that I do not know -- it was wrecked about 15 years ago, but I believe it is being "restored" now"

Hope that helps...

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jason thanks for all the prior photos, i really really enjoyed them! thats good stuff. your uncle still looks great! you know i will always be a mopar man!

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Thank you Jason, and relay my thanks to Mr. Pomeroy also.

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I finally got a chance to look at them in depth. Real nice.
Have you guys noticed some of the tow rigs. Man does that bring back memories.

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After a little checking, there is a Melvin Yow and a Bobby Yowell. Not saying that it can't be one of theirs, but their isn't any hint that it is either.

Yow:
http://www.mlodeent.com/OLDDRAG/PROSTOCK/myow1.jpg
Also had a dark blue '72 Challenger which is at the end of the Yowell album in the last link below.

Yowell:
http://www.mlodeent.com/OLDDRAG/PROSTOCK/yowell.jpg
http://www.draglist.com/artman/uploa...bby_yowell.jpg
http://www.prostockhemi.com/gallery2...?g2_itemId=803

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Don't thank me! I only provided one of the pictures, and a link to the Hamtramck Registery. You can thank Joe Pappas, Stewart Pomerory (for scanning so many of the pictures), and my uncle (the next time you see him at the races). And yes, he does still look good, though he looks a LOT better now than a couple of years ago when he was walking around with that stupid staph infection...

You're welcome Joe, and I will let Stewart know you thanked him as well (though he's probably reading this post, so he probably already knows...)

Since we're kind of on this subject, I'll post one more...it's one of the saddest pictures you'll ever see. Here's the '72 Motown Missile in it's current state:

http://oldfieldweb.net/72Missile.jpg

Makes me want to cry every time I see it...

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Looks like a Bobby Yowell ride/s that I remember, from the early '70's
They were big into the mural paint schemes. I remember at the '72 U.S. nats. they had a scene with old wooden ships on the trunk lid, and it said, Wooden ships, on the water.....Very free. Or something to that effect. I have a picture someplace......

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Good morning All and a Great New Year to each of you. As Jason said, I have a good collection of old Mopar photos, most of them of the Mopar Missile. The photos were supplied by Dick Oldfield, Joe Pappas, Dave Koffel, John Wehrly, Dave Christie, and others. I am trying to save and share these historical photos. If you have any old photos, I would be honored to scan them to disc for you. There is absolutely NO CHARGE - I EVEN PAY THE RETURN POSTAGE. I do not use the photos for any commerical gain at all. And if you are looking for any Missile photos, please feel free to contact me via my profile email.

I hope a lot of you all are planning to attend the Hemi Reunion, in August, and we get a chance to meet and try to relive the old days, thru our shared memories.

Stewart Pomeroy

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I actually own the Wally Booth super bee. If anyone has pictures please email them to me
josh@pentastarpromotions.com