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Mopars By Jack
vintage car & truck restoration, repair,
service 10% off labor to Club members
Mobile Service
Jack E. Henton
619-454-1396
15% Mopar Club Discount on all
Parts, Services & Labor To Clubmembers
8355 Hercules Drive, La Mesa
619/463-9321
For Sale: ‘70 Road Runner 440/6, air grabber hood, Dana, auto, black, $29,999
obo John Kosich (928) 778-0378
Mopar Club Newsletter Ad Rates
•Classified Ads
Club members free
Non-members $10/mo.*
•Club Sponsor Ads
Club members $60/6 months, min*
Non-members $100/6 months, min*
* OR like-value raffle prizes or 15% off
products/services to Club members
760-598-9809, or djjalj@sbcglobal.net
esa
Plumbing Company
619-276-5275
Clubmember Kerry Kohl Lic #515449
Steve Williams
Mobile Welding
Frame Connectors
Spring Relocating
Rear Axle Bracing & Narrowing
(619)988-0778
email: aws1@cox.net
ATING
BR
LE
For Sale: ‘68 Valiant race car, (big) small
block,
beautiful
car, add
gas & go
140mph
@ mid9’s in the
1/4, $25k inc. trailer
Bill Ruhlman 619-985-2507
CE
For Sale: ‘71 Charger practically new
parts Firm Feel springs, sway bars, Bilstein
shocks, Magnum Force upper cntrl arms.
440 Source deep oil pan, many stock parts
also Call for details 410-212-1336,
email ajohnson04usna@yahoo.com
For Sale: LOWER PRICES:
$400 or OBO like new/never
abused wheels off ‘09 Challenger R/T (13k miles; no
TPMS sensors), great
upgrade for modern
Challenger SE, Magnum
etc, with 18-inch wheels.
Also, $100 takes original
‘09 R/T shocks and springs (13k miles).Jeff
jc.walker16@gmail.com.
The Newsletter of the Mopar Club/San Diego
Trick or Treat!!!
S
ES
For Sale: OEM parts from ‘71 Dodge Challenger: Complete A/C Heater box w/blower
motor, excellent used condition, no cracks
$300 Front bucket seats, white w/tracks,
good condition $300 Joe
saxman318@hotmail.com 619-764-3121
For
Sale:’78
Dodge
Dreamer,
440 Auto
very
unique.
Reduced
price $6900.00 or trade. See Craigslist San
Diego
Steve.Berroth@ngc.com
As you can see from the front cover to
TH
the right, this has been quite a month
MOPAR E
for car shows. And The Mopar Club
OF SAN DCLUB
members have done their fair share
IEGO
of supporting the host clubs and their
1993-20
13
charities by polishing their rides and
driving them to the shows. It takes
time, sometimes money, and quite a
few gallons of 4 buck gas to do this.
But there’s another group of Mopar
enthusiasts who don’t show up in the
NOV 2013
www.moparclubsandiego.org
car show reports. The racers. These
are the guys who sometimes drive but
mostly tow their dedicated race cars
to drag strips, either at The Q 1/8 mile,
Barona 1/8 mile, Las Vegas 1/4 mile, or 5th Avenue Showcase
Sun Oct 13 A great
recently, to Famosa 1/4 mile Dragway
in Bakersfield. They, too, spend money time was had by Clubmembers Carl Parrick,
on 4 buck gas to get there. Then they
Tom Ferreira, Rick
spend $6/gallon for race fuel. Yeah,
Steve’s
they also put in time cleaning their race Bobick, Bill Baugh, the
Carolyn’s
Challenger
Johnson’s, the Walker’s Cuda
cars But most of their time is spent
tuning or adding expensive parts to
(2 cars), Steve VanderSchaaf, Cathy Jamieson
achieve incremental gains in accelerawhose ‘67 Cuda trophied (and was shown by invitative efficiency.
tion at The Art Center School of Design Car Show
This drive to go faster is a process
the next day), Rodger Webb and his “Overhauled”
that takes a lot of time. And, dependPlymouth, and Carolyn Mooney.
ing on how fast you want to go, a lot
Ed & Carl Burger’s Customer Appreciation Car Show,
of money. Clubmembers in that group
Denny’s
Fri Oct 18 Clubmember Nick
include Jim Signorelli
‘64 Hemi
Dreyfus hosted the show with
with his Duster, and Bill
free dogs & Hooter’s wings, and
Ruhlman in his beautiful
trophies + gas cards went to Cliff
Valiant, currently for sale.
Cunningham, Bill Baugh, Milton
Racing in the nostalgia A/
Steve’s Lil
Karahadian (Best In Show) and
FX group are Joel Miner,
Red Truck
y’rs tru’ly. Also attending were
Jerry Keller, Marv Reiser
Ed Koehler, Terry Ulmer, Rodger Webb, Denny Cuccarese,
and Pat Borovicka. You
Milton’s Best In Show Cuda & John Boville, Hot Rod Holley, Linda Patterson, Tom Ferreira
guys drive cool cars and
Mike’s Satellite and Mike Mattern. Jumpin’ Jack spun the tunes and showed
are hoot to watch.
Left: Best Muscle went Dave’s ‘39
his Duster.
to the Walker’s GTX
Pontiac Club Pow Wow,
Sun Oct 20 The rain
didn’t make the scene at
the Embarcadero as it
did last year, but ClubAbove: Jimmy’s
Duster.
members making the
Right: the Keller
scene included, Tom FerNice, huh?
Dodge Below:
reira, Cliff Cunningham
Rick is
Marv burns out
the one
(Top 10), The Johnson’s (Best In Class) Dave Lancaster,
Bottom: Pat’s
on the
and the Walker’s, whose GTX took Best Muscle Car. Also
Red Sled
Photos
there was Michael Harding of StreetLegalTV.com to cover the right
by Tom
event and show his Plymouth, and Bill “HemiBoy” Baugh. But as
ZiarPrez of the Poncho Club, he went pc and showed his Gran Prix. Fall Fling,
kowski at
Woodley Park Van Nuys, Sat Oct 26 Many Clubmembers made the 150 mile
Barona
trek, but only the ‘70 Charger of Woody Widman and Kurt Bogdan, the Challenger of Cliff Cunningham and the Rumble Bee
truck of HemiBoy displayed. No trophies were
brought home, but the swap meet, although small,
had a lot of good stuff.
Pal Joey’s Sun Oct
27 Tom Fereira and I were the only entrants. We HemiBoy,
got skunked. East County Cruisers at Bates
Rick & the
Nut Farm, Sat Nov 9 Braving the dust were the Walker’s
Walker’s and their GTX, Rick Bobick and Linda
-Bob Gough, with his Dodge, HemiBoy showed his Satellite, and Lyndsey
The Rower’s
Rower and family showed their big block ‘67 Cuda. Also
Yer ‘umble
Cuda
taking awards were HemiBoy and y’rs tru’ly.
Ed’tr
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As a tangible benefit to being a member of The
Mopar Club, you get free ads. Give Bob a fax
858/292-5344 or better e-mail bobgough@san.rr.com
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ProFile
NOV 2013
goin’ for the
dream...
So, let’s say you’re a drag race fan
from your early teenage
years. And let’s say your
first new car is a 1967 383
big block/4 speed Barracuda Formula S. And let’s
say in 1968 you’re smitten
by the havoc wreaked upon
the NHRA factory Super
Stock and Eliminator races
in Hemi cars led by the likes
of Ronnie Sox and Herb McCandless in ‘68 SS/A Hemi
Barracudas.
Well, that’s the early
story of Clubmember
Marv Reiser’s life. And his
teenage dream has evolved to adult
admiration the SS Hemi Barracudas.
But these cars were rare in ‘68, with
only 75 built, and Dodge with 80 SS
Darts. Today, few of these cars survive and are worth very large piles of
Benjamins. Not many folks, therefore,
have the capital to own them. But you
can still see them race in NHRA and
IHRA in the SS/A (manual trans) SS/
AA (automatic trans) classes. Almost
all are made from non-original cars.
The rules are quite strict, especially for
the engine, and the intent of the class
is to race these factory Hemi Mopars
to “nostalgia” rules, so that the cars
don’t become
Pro Stockers.
Marv came
across this
PPG Base Red
example at the
Russo/Steele
auction in Scottsdale last year.
He watched it
go unsold that
day, as the high
bid was well
short of the
owner’s reserve. But Marv
began thinking
that owning a
Hemi SS could
be within reach.
Several months
later, Marv
talked to his
friend and car/
engine builder,
Dale Reed,
about building
a Hemi engine for his ‘65
Dodge to run
as a nostalgia A/FX car. Dale said,
“Why do that when you can buy that
Hemi Cuda you saw in Scottsdale
at a very fair price. It’s here in my
garage.” With that, Marv inspected
the car, contacted the owner, and
worked a trade involving Marv’s ‘63
Max Wedge car.
Turns out the owner/builder was
a fella by the name of Doc Conroy.
He and his brother are fuel racers.
They built this car based on measurements from Bob Mazzolini’s SS
Barracuda, but added some ideas
from the fuel class. Like the giant
33x18.5x15 inch Mickey Thomp-
Top: there are only two factory race cars that came with this hood scoop.
Above left: the big Hemi is held to the unibody by motor plates, and has an
Accusump to pre-oil the engine and maintain pressure under hard g-loading at
launch. Above: yep, it’s street legal.
son’s out back. Marv believes that the
car would do a faster et with a narrower, and thus a lighter tire. Also, the
4.88 gears in the Ford 9” diff result
in the engine spinning to well over 7
grand at the end of the 1/4 mile. Marv
intends to change to a 4.56 to for
more reliability.
The engine is a Mopar Performance
cast iron 426 c.i. Hemi block stroked
to 542 c.i., sporting MP Stage V aluminum heads and Cross Ram intake.
It features a forged Keith Black crank,
Eagle rods and a custom roller cam
from Crower. It dyno’d at 702 ft-lb @
4900 rpm and 786 hp @ 6500 rpm.
As bought, the Cuda should run
mid-nine second et’s, based on the
6.2 second 1/8 mile pass. But Marv
knows that’s a region where parts are
eaten faster than he wants to replace
them, so he’s setting the car up to run
low 10 seconds in the quarter. To that
end, Marv will add 175 pounds of ballast and
has replaced the
dual race
Holleys
with less
aggressive carbs.
But Marv
reports
that the
short drive
to Cruisin’
Grand
from his
Escondido
home still
sucks up
5 gallons
of pump
gas.
When
Marv was a
teenager, he
was Mopar
racer. And to
this day, Marv
still is.
The only
difference
is, Marv has
now achieved
his ultimate
dream.
Top: nothing strikes fear into Chebby guys like big valve
covers with wires that go into the middle with “STAGE V”
cast into them. Above: the very tidy and well-thought out
cockpit in which to spend such a short amount of time.
Upcoming Events
Next meeting @ Casa Signorelli Dec 15,
1p for The Club Xmas Party
•RaceLegal at The Q Nov 22, Dec 20 & 27
drags,$30/race, $8/watch, racelegal.com
•Barona Drags Nov 16, 30, Dec 14
www.baronadrags.com
•Used Oil Recycling Event, Sat Nov 16,
Southwest HS, 1685 Hollister St, 9a-1p, also
fluorescent bulbs, car batteries, antifreeze for
City residents only, 858/694-7000
•Holy Hot Rods Sat Nov 16, Atonement
Lutheren Church, 10245 Loma Rancho Dr,
Spring Valley, 10a-3p, 1bag of canned goods
to register 619/670-7174
•Goodguys 3rd Del Mar Nats Nov 22-23,
bring a new unwrapped toy for USMC Toy
Drive for $3 off entry, Fri/Sat 8-4, Sun 8-3
•LA Auto Show, Nov 22-Dec 1 LA Convention Center, 1201 S Figueroa, many new car
roll-outs & after-mkt stuff, laautoshow.com
•Riverside County Car Show,@ the Fairgrounds, Sat Dec 7, 82-503 Hwy 111, Indio,
$30 before Nov 27, $35 after, 760-863-8247
•28th Xmas Cruise, Sun Dec 8, 8-2p Torrey
Pines HS, 3710 Del Mar Heights Rd, unwrapped toy admission, free pancake brkfst
8-9:30, 858-566-8629
•Mopar Club Xmas Party Sun Dec 15 1p-?
Casa Signorelli, 1328 Welsh Way, Ramona
Bring a pot-luck or dessert. Also, a wrapped
gift to participate in the Evil Santa Gift
Exchange. The Club will host the entree &
sodas. Raffle prizes will be handed out. And
PLEASE rsvp to Kay/Jim 760-789-4445 by
12/11 so we can figure out how much food
to buy
•27th Burger Run, Pepper Tree Frosty, 270
S. Santa FeVista 6a-1p, $10 pre Jan6/$15
•Fallbrook Rods & Relics, 7a every Sat,
Sunrise Cafe, Hwy 76 @ Mission Rd, Bonsall
•Cars & Coffee on the Mesa, 2nd Sun,
5675 Kearny Villa Rd, www.jbaracing.com.
•Jack’s La Jolla Classic Cruise, every Sun
7am, 7300 Girard Ave
•Cruisin’ The Lakes Santee 3pm Fridays,
•Chikin Pie Diner, every Wed, 14727
Pomerado Rd, starts Apr 24
•In & Out Burger Poway 11am 12890 Gregg
Ct. (Kohl’s Parking lot) 1st Sat ea month
•East County Cruisers 6:30p Tuesdays,
Tyler’s Taste of Texas 576 N. 2nd, El Cajon
•Ramona Cruise, Sun 4p-8, on Main St in
Albertson’s pkg lot
•Gearhead Gathering, 1st Sat 10-noon
& 3rd Sat 6-8p behind Chevron & Foster’s
Freeze off Waring Rd, www.sdmustangs.com
•Cruisin’ Italian Style, Pernicano’s, 1588 E.
Main, El Cajon, ea. Thur nite
•The Classic Malt Shop every Friday, 5p,
3615 Midway Dr.
•Home Town Buffet 1st Sat each month
9am, 2nd/4th Tues 5:30pm, Main St, E.C.
•Good Ole Boys Breakfast 10am
2nd & 4th Wed, Denny’s 2642 Jamacha
•Coco’s Restaurant 11a-3p, 3rd Sun 16759
Bernardo Center Dr, R’cho B’rdo
•Ruby’s Diner Carlsbad Company Stores ,
7- 9:30am last Sat 5620 Paseo Del Norte
•Fred’s Old Fashioned Burgers Alpine, 1st,
3rd, 5th Sat, 5pm
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Mopars By Jack
vintage car & truck restoration, repair,
service 10% off labor to Club members
Mobile Service
Jack E. Henton
619-454-1396
15% Mopar Club Discount on all
Parts, Services & Labor To Clubmembers
8355 Hercules Drive, La Mesa
619/463-9321
For Sale: ‘70 Road Runner 440/6, air grabber hood, Dana, auto, black, $29,999
obo John Kosich (928) 778-0378
Mopar Club Newsletter Ad Rates
•Classified Ads
Club members free
Non-members $10/mo.*
•Club Sponsor Ads
Club members $60/6 months, min*
Non-members $100/6 months, min*
* OR like-value raffle prizes or 15% off
products/services to Club members
760-598-9809, or djjalj@sbcglobal.net
esa
Plumbing Company
619-276-5275
Clubmember Kerry Kohl Lic #515449
Steve Williams
Mobile Welding
Frame Connectors
Spring Relocating
Rear Axle Bracing & Narrowing
(619)988-0778
email: aws1@cox.net
ATING
BR
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For Sale: ‘68 Valiant race car, (big) small
block,
beautiful
car, add
gas & go
140mph
@ mid9’s in the
1/4, $25k inc. trailer
Bill Ruhlman 619-985-2507
CE
For Sale: ‘71 Charger practically new
parts Firm Feel springs, sway bars, Bilstein
shocks, Magnum Force upper cntrl arms.
440 Source deep oil pan, many stock parts
also Call for details 410-212-1336,
email ajohnson04usna@yahoo.com
For Sale: LOWER PRICES:
$400 or OBO like new/never
abused wheels off ‘09 Challenger R/T (13k miles; no
TPMS sensors), great
upgrade for modern
Challenger SE, Magnum
etc, with 18-inch wheels.
Also, $100 takes original
‘09 R/T shocks and springs (13k miles).Jeff
jc.walker16@gmail.com.
The Newsletter of the Mopar Club/San Diego
Trick or Treat!!!
S
ES
For Sale: OEM parts from ‘71 Dodge Challenger: Complete A/C Heater box w/blower
motor, excellent used condition, no cracks
$300 Front bucket seats, white w/tracks,
good condition $300 Joe
saxman318@hotmail.com 619-764-3121
For
Sale:’78
Dodge
Dreamer,
440 Auto
very
unique.
Reduced
price $6900.00 or trade. See Craigslist San
Diego
Steve.Berroth@ngc.com
As you can see from the front cover to
TH
the right, this has been quite a month
MOPAR E
for car shows. And The Mopar Club
OF SAN DCLUB
members have done their fair share
IEGO
of supporting the host clubs and their
1993-20
13
charities by polishing their rides and
driving them to the shows. It takes
time, sometimes money, and quite a
few gallons of 4 buck gas to do this.
But there’s another group of Mopar
enthusiasts who don’t show up in the
NOV 2013
www.moparclubsandiego.org
car show reports. The racers. These
are the guys who sometimes drive but
mostly tow their dedicated race cars
to drag strips, either at The Q 1/8 mile,
Barona 1/8 mile, Las Vegas 1/4 mile, or 5th Avenue Showcase
Sun Oct 13 A great
recently, to Famosa 1/4 mile Dragway
in Bakersfield. They, too, spend money time was had by Clubmembers Carl Parrick,
on 4 buck gas to get there. Then they
Tom Ferreira, Rick
spend $6/gallon for race fuel. Yeah,
Steve’s
they also put in time cleaning their race Bobick, Bill Baugh, the
Carolyn’s
Challenger
Johnson’s, the Walker’s Cuda
cars But most of their time is spent
tuning or adding expensive parts to
(2 cars), Steve VanderSchaaf, Cathy Jamieson
achieve incremental gains in accelerawhose ‘67 Cuda trophied (and was shown by invitative efficiency.
tion at The Art Center School of Design Car Show
This drive to go faster is a process
the next day), Rodger Webb and his “Overhauled”
that takes a lot of time. And, dependPlymouth, and Carolyn Mooney.
ing on how fast you want to go, a lot
Ed & Carl Burger’s Customer Appreciation Car Show,
of money. Clubmembers in that group
Denny’s
Fri Oct 18 Clubmember Nick
include Jim Signorelli
‘64 Hemi
Dreyfus hosted the show with
with his Duster, and Bill
free dogs & Hooter’s wings, and
Ruhlman in his beautiful
trophies + gas cards went to Cliff
Valiant, currently for sale.
Cunningham, Bill Baugh, Milton
Racing in the nostalgia A/
Steve’s Lil
Karahadian (Best In Show) and
FX group are Joel Miner,
Red Truck
y’rs tru’ly. Also attending were
Jerry Keller, Marv Reiser
Ed Koehler, Terry Ulmer, Rodger Webb, Denny Cuccarese,
and Pat Borovicka. You
Milton’s Best In Show Cuda & John Boville, Hot Rod Holley, Linda Patterson, Tom Ferreira
guys drive cool cars and
Mike’s Satellite and Mike Mattern. Jumpin’ Jack spun the tunes and showed
are hoot to watch.
Left: Best Muscle went Dave’s ‘39
his Duster.
to the Walker’s GTX
Pontiac Club Pow Wow,
Sun Oct 20 The rain
didn’t make the scene at
the Embarcadero as it
did last year, but ClubAbove: Jimmy’s
Duster.
members making the
Right: the Keller
scene included, Tom FerNice, huh?
Dodge Below:
reira, Cliff Cunningham
Rick is
Marv burns out
the one
(Top 10), The Johnson’s (Best In Class) Dave Lancaster,
Bottom: Pat’s
on the
and the Walker’s, whose GTX took Best Muscle Car. Also
Red Sled
Photos
there was Michael Harding of StreetLegalTV.com to cover the right
by Tom
event and show his Plymouth, and Bill “HemiBoy” Baugh. But as
ZiarPrez of the Poncho Club, he went pc and showed his Gran Prix. Fall Fling,
kowski at
Woodley Park Van Nuys, Sat Oct 26 Many Clubmembers made the 150 mile
Barona
trek, but only the ‘70 Charger of Woody Widman and Kurt Bogdan, the Challenger of Cliff Cunningham and the Rumble Bee
truck of HemiBoy displayed. No trophies were
brought home, but the swap meet, although small,
had a lot of good stuff.
Pal Joey’s Sun Oct
27 Tom Fereira and I were the only entrants. We HemiBoy,
got skunked. East County Cruisers at Bates
Rick & the
Nut Farm, Sat Nov 9 Braving the dust were the Walker’s
Walker’s and their GTX, Rick Bobick and Linda
-Bob Gough, with his Dodge, HemiBoy showed his Satellite, and Lyndsey
The Rower’s
Rower and family showed their big block ‘67 Cuda. Also
Yer ‘umble
Cuda
taking awards were HemiBoy and y’rs tru’ly.
Ed’tr
N
As a tangible benefit to being a member of The
Mopar Club, you get free ads. Give Bob a fax
858/292-5344 or better e-mail bobgough@san.rr.com
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