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Originally Posted by Dwight Southerland
Joe Ralph Thompson's car was an aluminum front end car as was Sanford Bolin's. Both started as max wedge cars. Sanford's car was white and a four speed, Joe Ralph's was red and an automatic. I saw Sanford's car run on the first day he had it out at Little Rock Dragstrip. It still had the cast iron exhaust manifolds and he ran it with the factory dumps open.
Somewhere I have pictures of Joe Ralph's car from 1964 or 5. I will try to find/post them.
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Joe had two red Plymouths. The one I own was a 1964 MW lightweight that was converted to AWB in 1966. That car was driven by Derwood Reep as a B/A. The other red Plymouth was driven by Ron Cheshier and won B/G at the 1968 US Nationals. I was told it wasn't an AWB car. Joe drove a white Dodge at that time. I think the second photo may have been the other red Plymouth. I'm not sure if it was an A-990 car or not? The guy I bought this car from also owned one of Sanford's AWB Plymouths. He had the MSO on the body, but it was in really bad shape as far as I know. He sold that body. If anyone owns that MSO, I would question the originality of the body as there wasn't much left from acid dipping/lightening/rust from what I was told. I think the body was blue. I bought one of Sanford's old Barnett Hemi's about ten years ago.