A990 Super Stockers

[a990hemi]

Originally Posted by duster

It's my car Hemi Moose. It was purchased through a broker. The owner was Norm Brandes. He has owned the car for 33 years.
I can send you a photo with my dog eyeing the car with suspicion. He hadn't heard a hemi before.
There are a lot more photo's available on Show your auto website for those unaware.

I searched unsuccessfully all weekend trying to find a mid to late 80s Musclecar magazine that featured Norm Brandes' white A990 Coronet when it had chrome Cragar Super Trick wheels on it. I remember that article like it's etched into my brain but I can no longer find the magazine in my library. Might you know which article I'm talking about or have it yourself? I started frequenting Union Grove around 1989 and saw Norm drag racing his immaculate Dodge regularly at Da Grove's Mopar gatherings back then. Norm would always draw a crowd while he performed super smoky burnouts in the water box!

[duster]

Originally Posted by a990hemi

I searched unsuccessfully all weekend trying to find a mid to late 80s Musclecar magazine that featured Norm Brandes' white A990 Coronet when it had chrome Cragar Super Trick wheels on it. I remember that article like it's etched into my brain but I can no longer find the magazine in my library. Might you know which article I'm talking about or have it yourself? I started frequenting Union Grove around 1989 and saw Norm drag racing his immaculate Dodge regularly at Da Grove's Mopar gatherings back then. Norm would always draw a crowd while he performed super smoky burnouts in the water box!

The paperwork I received was the original invoice from Grand Spalding, a report dated 1978 from Walter Redman verifying the car as authentic, etc. I did not receive anything on the cars previous history. I have learnt more from the last couple of pages of this thread than I knew previously.
I was told the original owner, whose name appears on the invoice, was a Barrister and raced only as a hobby, hence the car remained relatively unmodified.
I would be interested to see the article if it shows up a990.

[a990hemi]

I will continue my search for the magazine article that featured Norm Brandes' A990 Dodge. That one article is the one that told of the original owner being crushed to death by the car while he was swapping the original headers for aftermarket ones. Jeff Wick, son of midwest Pro Stock standout Jim Wick, may be able to shed some light on your white A990 Super Stock as well since the Wick family was the primary source for race Hemi tuning in the Fox Valley, WI area bitd.

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[Dan Bennett]

Originally Posted by a990hemi

I searched unsuccessfully all weekend trying to find a mid to late 80s Musclecar magazine that featured Norm Brandes' white A990 Coronet when it had chrome Cragar Super Trick wheels on it. I remember that article like it's etched into my brain but I can no longer find the magazine in my library. Might you know which article I'm talking about or have it yourself? I started frequenting Union Grove around 1989 and saw Norm drag racing his immaculate Dodge regularly at Da Grove's Mopar gatherings back then. Norm would always draw a crowd while he performed super smoky burnouts in the water box!

As I said in my earlier message, I saw the car at Union Grove during a Musclecar Nationals. We were allied with Muscle Car Review and they always sent staff to shoot the event and get features. I'm pretty sure they did a piece on the car but I'm just about positive that the car had steel wheels on it when I saw it.

I still haven't totally recovered from my last move, so my collection of vintage magazines is still in various boxes. Sorry that I can't help with looking up the issue.

[duster]

Harmon Friend's "Harms Way" stalked Norwalk. Set a speed record in 69. Great story located @ texas classic cars of dallas, sold cars.
Car was sold around July 11. It was an invite to the Norwalk reunion. Did anyone see it run?

[a990hemi]

Detroit area A/FX and Super Stock standout Dick Smith.

[Hemi Moose]

a990hemi,
There sure were a lot of '65 A990 Dodge & Plymouth's that were converted back then...I wonder how many of them actually survived today, because most of them were hacked up junk...what about the UFO A/FX car, heard someone found it recently.

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Early 1965

[a990hemi]

Originally Posted by Hemi Moose

a990hemi,
There sure were a lot of '65 A990 Dodge & Plymouth's that were converted back then...I wonder how many of them actually survived today, because most of them were hacked up junk...what about the UFO A/FX car, heard someone found it recently.

I'm geussing that single most contributing factor to the rarity of '65 A-990 cars has to be the match race madness that occurred in '65-'67. Chrysler only built 11 AF/X cars and abruptly abandoned the entire program after the very first NHRA national event of '65. The '65 season for Chrysler was very unique in the fact that the entire motorsports budget for that year was commited to drag racing and primarilly NHRA's Altered Factory Experimental class. Chrysler's fundamental flaw was building the AF/X fleet in such secrecy that no one at the NHRA new of their specifications or intentions and the factory cars were deemed unlawful and "funny" looking by the tech officials at Phoenix. Chrysler's motorsports marketing group would never again allow such a intensive factory package car program to occur and the quickest way for an independent Fuuny Car racer to acquire an altered wheelbase match racer was to purchase an A-990 post car and perform the wheelbase mods himself.