[GarysZ24]

Jim,

You and Stewart make me even more glad that I bought one of those "Turbo Action" mid-ninetees Div. II video, since Steve Bagwells Savoy & Belvedere were featured in it numerous times! My favorite shot will always be in the qualifying run he had alongside one of those '64 Ford Thunderbolts (SS/C?). While the Ford was reving up it's engine several times, the Savoy was being shown in the right-hand lane mildly rocking as it staged with a cloudy overcast backdrop of skies watching o'er the pair. After a few more revs from the T'bolt, you hear a sudden screech of the slicks on the SS/BAAADDD Savoy and the sound of the "HONKIN HEMI", as it blasted down that quarter-mile at the Southern Nationals to record an e.t. of 9.94!!! I can't think of how many times I rewound that tape to enjoy that car and that run---not to forget the wheelstanding test session that he had with the Savoy earlier in the tape....where you hear the sounds of that "HONKIN' HEMI" just before you see the car eerily looking down the strip as it prepares to make it's burnout! Wow, between Steve's Savoy & his Belvedere (which I remember being driven by Richard Griffin in SS/CA), plus Bob Marshalls "Dodge Material" '65 Dodge Coronet SS/BA car (now I think running SS/AM), to borrow from my memories of the "Archie Bunker Show", "THOSE WERE THE DAYS"!!!

I just wish that I could afford one of those cars, because if I could I'd go hunting for Dennis Maurer's '65 Dodge Coronet (also SS/BA, and a former Div. V terror), then I'd have a really fast car to go with my current slow (by other stocker car standards) roller. What fun that would be to see how the other half lives...being the chaser instead of the chasee...that could be fun???