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Originally Posted by DRAKE VISCOME

Hey ...with all due respect...know Tim & Kim Richards for many,many years...they are as straight-up people as any on this planet...maybe this "story" which isn't exactly accurate...names (Bernstein brothers?)...Tim with a Sox & Martin engine???!!!***events/wins...with his (Tim's) talent/knowledge of the Chrysler Hemi (426) from day one...always possible...I guess...but pretty doubtful...I'd think...maybe a guy like me...not real talented in engine building area...for sure would have went the Sox & Martin "route" (if Tim wouldn't do it) if I was a Chrysler "guy"...sadly the late Bob Chipper another fine racer...real good guy...can't provide some info/insight...Tim & Kim are very private...so I can't help you with contact...but hopefully maybe they read this "story"...and are amused enough to clear up at least the beginning of Superbird (yours) facts...best wishes in completing car as you hope to...funny how time makes stories "grow"...we always won more-went faster-hung out with-way back when 'eh!!! Drake yikes...a lil' "surprised" Hemmings doesn't check/know a bit of backround-validity... on some of these cars...guess a "story"...is just that a "story"...Tim Richards accomplishments/success/contributions to the sport of drag racing over many years are numerous...he is in the dictionary...under Legend...a genuine... real one!!!...the Smith-Barney way...he earned it...wife Kim & her dad-Dick LaHaie right there with him...best- of...D...best-'nuff said !!!

Aside from the few mixups on the names ( Bernstein brothers) and the cars actual best time, ( which were correct on the display board, however got skewed in the writing of the story) the facts are pretty much straight from a phone conversation with Tim this past summer. "Sox and Martin Hemi and all"


Tim Richards and Paul Messemer, have given me 95% of the information I have gathered so far on this car right down to who painted the car, its track history and what a pain in the Butt this car was too work on ..(with the long nose and Brake booster always in the way of the Valve cover..lol). Tim has been a joy to talk to and his knowledge is incredible. Heck he was even nice enough to sign the glove compartment door , over the Christmas holidays, ...*"best present I had under the tree..lol"