Help find the history of this 64 Savoy Lightweight

lstanford · 10-20-2014, 11:17 PM

By the looks of the wiring, the name hillbilly comes to mind. Nevermind.............

69hurstsc · 10-21-2014, 04:17 PM

Outstanding contribution.

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Originally Posted by FECARMAN

By the looks of the wiring, the name hillbilly comes to mind. Nevermind.............

Rick Kolber · 12-19-2014, 12:35 AM

Back in the day there was a publication like National Dragster called Drag News. It covered races both NHRA/AHRA nationwide. You can still find individual weekly issues for sale on Ebay or there was a place called Standard 1320 Productions that put them on a CD. Don't know if their still in business. Hope this helps, Rick

GTX JOHN · 12-19-2014, 07:13 AM

I think that Drag News has been defunct for about 30 years.

They were out of Orange County, Calif. by Guy Bennett. I am not sure they did a lot of Back East Bracket Stuff.

Chris Barnes · 12-19-2014, 09:05 PM

Man, what a cool car! If I owned it I might park it in my living room and watch it instead of TV. What are you going to do with it?

69hurstsc · 12-22-2014, 11:32 AM

Well, first it's not mine :-) It's a friends car. I really enjoy the researching the history of cars. It's a passion of mine. There's not much better of a feeling than when you can connect a current owner with an original owner of someone from the past who hasn't thought about the car years.

We'd like to find it's history and restore the car back to how it was Day 1. We know it was delivered to Jack Rieger Chrysler Plymouth per Darrell Davis' book on 1964 Stage III and Supercommando cars. Could it have been dealer traded out of there? Possible. We also know that the car was located in Pasadena, TX in the late 80's and featured the Division 4 lettering you see in the pics.

I've been in touch with all the Division 4 people (Tech administrators, archivists,) and some vaguely remember the car but can't fully identify who may have owned it. There records on the taped numbers go back to 1990 and this number had already been given to another car at that time. So, this car ran that number prior to 1990.

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Originally Posted by Chris Barnes

Man, what a cool car! If I owned it I might park it in my living room and watch it instead of TV. What are you going to do with it?

69hurstsc · 01-08-2015, 11:27 AM

In the quest to document this car over the years, I've taken up challenge of finding ownership lineage on all of the Stage III and Hemi Savoy's from 64 delivered new with BBI (Ebony) paint and a Red interior.

After two successful phone calls yesterday, I"ve now talked with all 6 of the original Hemi owners. For the record, 6 Hemi cars and 7 Stage III cars came in this color configuration in 64. Still looking for info on 5 of the Stage III cars.

If you have ANY photo's of Black 64 Plymouths campaigning I would really appreciate you posting them here. I have a series of undocumented cars that appear or are Black that need identification. I will post those this evening when I have more time.

Thanks!

Wes

69hurstsc · 12-22-2014, 11:27 AM

I own quite a few of those along with the Eastern Drag News. I've also watched countless hours of cars drag racing on youtube in the Texas area.

I know it's just going to take that ONE person to recognize it. With 1,500 rounds on the odometer it should be a car that many have seen go down the track.

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Originally Posted by Rick Kolber

Back in the day there was a publication like National Dragster called Drag News. It covered races both NHRA/AHRA nationwide. You can still find individual weekly issues for sale on Ebay or there was a place called Standard 1320 Productions that put them on a CD. Don't know if their still in business. Hope this helps, Rick

Nitro Joe Jackson · 10-21-2014, 04:26 PM

e-mail Tom Kasch, he has a bunch of old programs and he might be able to look up the car number and go from there, I just looked into my data and came up blank
Joe

Adger Smith · 10-22-2014, 01:13 AM

No memory of that one. If I saw it I can't remember now. I did do an engine for one back about 69, but it was a Hemi and was owned by a guy in New Boston, TX Mark, (something) Brother-in-law to Bruce Caver. I think a local guy by the name of Danny Proctor bought it a few years ago and did a restoration on it.
He buys and sells, no telling where it is now.

10-20-2014, 11:17 PM	#1
lstanford Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Michigan Posts: 312 Likes: 1 Liked 134 Times in 32 Posts	Re: Help find the history of this 64 Savoy Lightweight By the looks of the wiring, the name hillbilly comes to mind. Nevermind.............

12-19-2014, 12:35 AM	#3
Rick Kolber Junior Member Join Date: Sep 2012 Posts: 98 Likes: 20 Liked 32 Times in 13 Posts	Re: Help find the history of this 64 Savoy Lightweight Back in the day there was a publication like National Dragster called Drag News. It covered races both NHRA/AHRA nationwide. You can still find individual weekly issues for sale on Ebay or there was a place called Standard 1320 Productions that put them on a CD. Don't know if their still in business. Hope this helps, Rick

12-19-2014, 07:13 AM	#4
GTX JOHN VIP Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Boulder City, Nevada 89005 Posts: 2,733 Likes: 2,802 Liked 2,486 Times in 697 Posts	Re: Help find the history of this 64 Savoy Lightweight I think that Drag News has been defunct for about 30 years. They were out of Orange County, Calif. by Guy Bennett. I am not sure they did a lot of Back East Bracket Stuff. __________________ John Irving 741 Stock 741 Super Stock

12-19-2014, 09:05 PM	#5
Chris Barnes Member Join Date: Nov 2010 Posts: 139 Likes: 0 Liked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: Help find the history of this 64 Savoy Lightweight Man, what a cool car! If I owned it I might park it in my living room and watch it instead of TV. What are you going to do with it?

01-08-2015, 11:27 AM	#7
69hurstsc Member Join Date: Aug 2013 Posts: 117 Likes: 0 Liked 2 Times in 1 Post	Re: Help find the history of this 64 Savoy Lightweight In the quest to document this car over the years, I've taken up challenge of finding ownership lineage on all of the Stage III and Hemi Savoy's from 64 delivered new with BBI (Ebony) paint and a Red interior. After two successful phone calls yesterday, I"ve now talked with all 6 of the original Hemi owners. For the record, 6 Hemi cars and 7 Stage III cars came in this color configuration in 64. Still looking for info on 5 of the Stage III cars. If you have ANY photo's of Black 64 Plymouths campaigning I would really appreciate you posting them here. I have a series of undocumented cars that appear or are Black that need identification. I will post those this evening when I have more time. Thanks! Wes Last edited by 69hurstsc; 01-08-2015 at 02:25 PM.

10-21-2014, 04:26 PM	#9
Nitro Joe Jackson VIP Member Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Loudonville, Ohio or where ever the Nitro Lounge is parked Posts: 2,293 Likes: 58 Liked 67 Times in 19 Posts	Re: Help find the history of this 64 Savoy Lightweight e-mail Tom Kasch, he has a bunch of old programs and he might be able to look up the car number and go from there, I just looked into my data and came up blank Joe __________________ Nitro Joe Jackson STK 3431 nitrojoe@neo.rr.com

10-22-2014, 01:13 AM	#10
Adger Smith VIP Member Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Texarkana Ark/TX Posts: 2,446 Likes: 575 Liked 880 Times in 311 Posts	Re: Help find the history of this 64 Savoy Lightweight No memory of that one. If I saw it I can't remember now. I did do an engine for one back about 69, but it was a Hemi and was owned by a guy in New Boston, TX Mark, (something) Brother-in-law to Bruce Caver. I think a local guy by the name of Danny Proctor bought it a few years ago and did a restoration on it. He buys and sells, no telling where it is now. __________________ Adger Smith (Former SS)