June FSN

June FSN http://www.storm.ca/~hemi On the cover this month; the pride and joy of member Mark Moga (mmoga@compmore.net)
Tony McLean, President/Publisher
MoPar Experience/FSN-ET
moparman@storm.ca
www.storm.ca/~moparman

Annual Catalogue Issue!

Okay, spring is almost here (depending where in the country/countries you are) and so it's time to rev up the old smoking LP-1100 LaserPrinter and churn out ye annual Catalogue Issue. What's in store for us as we try to restore and/or keep our beauties on the road in 1997? There are new and exciting developments in MoPar-dom this season and I'll try to keep you abreast of them all year long, but here are some of the season's most relevant.

MoPar Performance 1997 catalogue
As usual, the guys in the dungeon have outdone themselves. This may be the only arm of Chrysler that still clutches the basic values of the late 1960's close to their collective breast. These dinosaurs (along with their motorsports division) are the only thing that keeps fossilized MoParites like us (and our rides) chooglin'. Join the MoPar Performance Race Team (the best $18 US you've ever spent) and you receive the catalogue, four race team decals, a nice embroidered patch, a classy pin, ten issues of a n improved/superb factory news magazine, a mediocre (but nicely embroidered) race team baseball hat, the essential MoPar Performance Consumer Price List and the MP Wearables catalogue (where you can order your $1,000 leather Prowler jacket).
Hey, these throwbacks brought back the Hemi block, the Hemi heads (and valve train components) and much more to ensure the survival of our treasured Chrysler Plymouth Dodge Desoto heritage. And to top it off, Chrysler is finally getting into the licensing of repro parts the way the other US majors have done for years, signalling Ma MoPar is deadly serious about the hobby, if not full NASCAR involvement or the dearth of current muscle. But these guys exceed all expectations every year. Bravo!
The MP catalogue (or catalog to our Yank friends) is, as we all know chock full of not only rare, hard-to-find and life-giving parts for our Penta-pets, but factory engineered parts. Designed by and for MoPar. No need ever to go anywhere else. Just peruse the price list and add the exchange rate, that's the price you pay. ‘Racer's net', it's called, somewhere between eleven and fifteen per cent off list, which is a healthy savings and should put your pieds at the Pentastar parts counter from now on. Why b uy Edelbrock, Competition Cams, etc. when Chryco makes it in-house, better and usually cheaper?
>From 2.2 to 426W, Hemi and 440 it's all here. The best investment you'll ever make? Forget Sealed Power, TRW and the like, buy the MP Hi-Po oil pump assembly, ready to bolt on with o-rings and gaskets. (Don't forget to prime the pump with oil or a heavie r lubricant like STP Oil Treatment, don't want an air lock or dry start, do we, Tony?) It's all in here, from electrical to carbs, shift kits, factory headers, rear end components, Jeep and off-road equipment, accessories, chrome dress-up, goodies for the rapidly growing MoPar street rod crowd and restoration goodies which will be supplemented by the likes of the good folks who repro'd the 1966-67 Charger tail lights. (The latter are definitely not cheep-cheep, but try finding usable 30 year old bezels or mortgaging your house for N.O.S.!) While some items are not shipped trans-border (like aerosols) you can get a few of them like the Argent wheel paint at McLean SuperCars. (Our competitors sell the cans for $20.50 each. We retail them for $15. How? I bri ng ‘em back from Carlisle every year. Place your orders now!) Pie plates, filters, valve covers, intakes, resto plug wires, group 24 and 27 batteries, plugs, bearings, oil pans, it's all there. Unfortunately new products are not denoted, but this year for the first time NHRA contingency cash items are. A definite must-have. If you don't want to pay the whole shee-band, get the catalogue for $5 US at your MoPar dealership's parts counter. Le Bible!

Resto Motive Laboratories (POR 15)

In a (favourite) word, "Yeow!" While as Noel Norgreenius says "American rust and Canadian rust are two entirely different animals" we note that the good fokes at POR 15 (Paint Over Rust) have heeded many notes dropped in the company (cop many?) suggestion box by consumers. If you're not familiar with POR 15, it's a "paint-like substance which acts as a total rust inhibitor and is also very effective as a metal filler. Its consistency is approximately that of a paint and it has very good spreadability (one quart covers 96 square feet). POR 15 chemically bonds to rusted steel to form a rock-hard, non-porous coating that won't crack, chip or peel. It works by isolating metal. from moisture. Without moisture present, steel can't rust. Thin, covering coats are best; POR 15 will accept all paints, including lacquer-based paints." It comes in either black, semi-gloss black, silver or clear finishes.
Note that they have many new items, namely "Chassiscoat Black", "Blackcote" heavy duty gloss black topcoat, a super idea of a small six-pack of POR 15 containers (if anyone's ever used the blasted stuff, you know how difficult it is to keep it out of the lip of the tin, it then hardens and you're really up against it trying to get the bloody can open again!) with screw-top lids. Sort of like the little yogurt containers you see in the supermarket. They have several different ‘kits' for different applicati ons, like floor pan and trunk resto. Now they have a stripper, a solvent, "Whitecote", engine clean, a wicked epoxy putty that hardens really hard and can be used on steering wheels, plastic knobs/parts, rust holes and pits, repairing woodwork, doors/hing es/latches, tool handles and even concrete patching! They sell a steering wheel resto kit, Marine Clean, Factory exhaust Manifold Gray, POR 20 (aluminum coating, good to up to 1400 degrees F), "Black Velvet" (up to 1200 F) engine enamels, a crystal topcoa t, POR Patch (for permanently sealing seams, holes, fuel tanks; they sell an excellent fuel tank sealer and a repair kit for gas tanks and more! I hope to carry at least a few of these products as part of McLean SuperCars' summer 1997 offerings. Oh and do n't get the stuff on your hands or it'll be with you 7-10 days. There is nothing in the world that will remove it but wear and tear and your natural skin oils. Believe me, I know!

Year One, Inc

What can I, "Mr. Superlative" say that we haven't already said about these great folks? We all owe Len Athanasiades a huge debt after he loaned the Year One web site to the UCF Knight Riders club for their online petition for the return of a V8RWD car or cars to the Chrysler stable. Incredible!
As usual, their latest MoPar catalogue is much bigger and contains an enormous amount of essential and hard to find items for our delicate dinosaurs. You have to phone 1-800-950-9503 (ask for MoPar experts Danny ext. 281 or Ed 106 and remind them you get the club 10% discount though not on catalogues I don't think). Still, always number one! And I'd like to personally give a customer commendation to rep David Leck for his superior service. Len, give this man a medal, he's your MVP!
Their new products (and discontinued notices) are the best in the industry. Hell, the book is 290 pp! And the ‘regular catalogue is now up to just under 400 pages, dwarfing all others including their own previous offering(s).

Princess Auto

They have outlets across our fair land and have many hard to find parts and tools. Some swear by their stores, others are indifferent. Personally I lean to the latter inclination (especially with the strange ‘pierced' staff at our local incarnation - try holding down your lunch when you're talking to a guy with studs in his nose and rings through his lip) but they are obviously a valuable store to somebody. Their 5x7 catalogue runs to 362 pp and does have many interesting items. N.B.: don't but their "Pow er Fist" 1,200 lb. Engine stand unless you want to see whether your big block can tempt fate by drooping until the stand twists up permanently. Use a 2x4 under the balancer if you do buy a stand or get a 3,000 lb. Rated stand. 1-800-265-4212.

Collection from MoPar

(Previously the Wearables catalogue.)
Chock full of interesting things, golf and t shirts, hats, jackets, sweaters, $1,000 lambskin leather Prowler jackets ("Hello Mike, I'll take two."), Viper wearables, watches, kids tees, mugs, umbrellas, tote bags, patches, key fobs, pens, tire gauges, pi ns, it's all here. Primarily rich man's (and woman's) stuff, but some reasonable items for us ‘lunch bucket' types. Comes with your membership in the Race Team or see it at your parts counter.
No word yet on Canadian Tire's performance catalogue for ‘97 yet, perhaps next issue with more reviews as the books become available. See my Mr. C's review in the Bits'n'Bites column on page four. Lots of spring specials at Gene's ‘biz' in Virgil, ON. His number is (905) 468-0719, new products, too.

Wayne County Mystery Solved!
The FBI announced today that at long last the mysterious break-in which occurred May 17, 1995 at the Wayne County Speed Shop had been solved and the related nitrous allegations by unnamed GM accusers settled. Assistant Deputy Director, Mid West Region, D. A. Dawg, told members of the press that a huge conspiracy had been uncovered: "We thought at first that the competition had done this to knock Alderman and Geoffrion out, but we uncovered something much more sinister." It turns out that President John F. Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe, from their underground bunker in Montana, had hatched a plot with Wayne County, their alien ‘Area 51' fellow escapees and Sasquatch, who had taken time off from making footprints in B.C. and appearing on Geraldo to do some wall painting in Illinois. Further, while JFK lives, his libido has been destroyed by the near-fatal shot fired by none other than Darrell Alderman from his hollow peg leg on Nov. 22, 1963, which concealed a rifle which fired a nitrous-propelled exhaust valve which struck the President in the ...ahem...'lower extremities'. Marilyn is reported to be both devastated and seriously interested in Alderman's leg, and can be heard humming the Barracuda's 1976 hit song, "I Want My Woody Back," as has Kennedy, though it is thought he has something different in mind. "Ted's VW was on nitrous, that's why it jumped the bridge that night," JFK said in his Boston-accented best pahk the caah voice.
In addition, Mike Hutchens, Dave Sullivan, Darrell Alderman and Scott Geoffrion were also found to be the instigators of the Sino-Soviet and Chinese-Indian conflicts of the early-to mid 1960's. "It seems these Dodge Boys had their fingers in every pie you could imagine," Deputy Dawg fairly drawled. "Not only couldn't a MoPar engine on nitrous keep up to mighty genius Warren Johnson without, but Alderman was leaking military secrets to the U.S.S.R. and he killed the Tooth Fairy with some bad laughing gas i n late 1972," the deputy claimed. "The Tooth Fairy was working for McGovern and Alderman wanted him out of the picture, he was a Nixon man all the way." Geoffrion, though only eight years old, drove the getaway car. "It was on nitrous too," Dawg grunted, "and they were smoking Cuban cigars at the time because they and Howard Hunt had a falling out with Jesse Helms," his index finger buried in his right nostril to the knuckle as he smiled at an autographed Bob Glidden "Gitanes" advertisement photo taken af ter Glidden's second triple bypass operation. (Nitrous Oxide was used as an anaesthetic.) Links to the Jonestown tragedy were also being explored. "We suspected for years there was nitrous in the Kool Aid," Dawg drooled, hacking up a throat oyster the siz e of WJ's brain.
W. Hamer Johnston, noted cross-dresser and sometimes engine builder said, "I knew it. I just knew it had to be true. My guys didn't get soaking wet in the rain for nothing...err..." and was heard to utter something unintelligible about his poor reactions times, claiming his wife always found he was in fact, extremely quick.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Hey, it makes as much sense as what the slanderers say! Welcome back, Boys. Kick ass!
As I asked before, "Have these GM/Ford mouth-breathers been watching too many X-Files and smoking the drapes with Dan Ackroyd or are they just malicious and Penta(star)-envy stricken?" Most likely both. The case remains open and the perpetrators should be crucified, as should the double digit IQ types who continue to spread lies about mighty MoPar horsepower. How many times have you blown away the competition? Did you use nitrous? I didn't! I waxed all those Ford and GM fannies with good old MoPar horsepo wer. So did Darrell and Scotty.
We won. We won fair and square. We were going to win fair and square again until some GM (or Ford?) hit man/men broke in to WCSS and destroyed our entire inventory of engines. It's a long road back, be patient, we're almost there, I can smell it. Or is it BG, LM or WJ's cologne, ‘Krylon gold'?

DNQ: Ca Continue...
Aw, man! I know I preach patience, but we're coming up on the second anniversary of the ‘hit' on Wayne County and while there's been noticeable progress lately, it still comes in dribs and drabs. This weekend, for instance, was drab one indeed as all thre e Dodge entries (Alderman, Geoffrion, Al Johnson-independent) failed to qualify for competition at the ‘mineshaft' in Tejas. It was tantalizingly close: Darrell was in the picture every qualifying round until the last one and Scotty basketballed the tires early to come one stronger in the fourth round. Neither was enough and Al Johnson missed the cut too. The Team Dodge entries continue to struggle with clutch settings for the new tranny, the power is there, witness DA's come from behind win in the first round. Once we get the bugs out, we'll be competitive, but there's lots of miles to go before they sleep. 1,320 feet at a time, the first 60 feet of which are giving our lads fits right now. Ever closer, we will win some races this year. Patience...sheesh !

To the Trough we Go...
The Saturday of Autorama, April 5th we will be having another very informal get-together. I was thinking we could meet at the entrance to the Chicken Palace building (the one which used to house the late lamented Rough Riders offices). I will be posterizi ng Autorama earlier that day (for my Sunday June 15 Richmond SuperShow and Truck Pull), so let's say we meet at the door to the building around three o'clock, have the run of the place for a couple of hours (Autorama is shrinking, so let's be flexible, it may be 60-90 minutes) after which we'll adjourn to the Prescott Hotel on Preston Avenue at five pm (il Corso d'Italia) for beer, pizza bench racing and b.s. Purely, 100% voluntary as are all our functions. Don't ever feel you are compelled to attend an e vent or show. It's always more enjoyable when it is so. We are a fun club, based upon a newsletter subscription with a nice tee shirt and we love our MoPars, what more can one ask? No snobs, no politics, just the thrill(s) of Ma MoPar's finest. Steve Cher vinsky promises he will entertain us with his best ‘Norm' impersonation. On to greatness!

Bits'n'Bites/Spotters Guide LXIX

Big news from our friends Gene and Elinor Heins of Mr. C's, located in Virgil, Ontario. You may remember me telling you a while back that Gene was the authorized Year One, Inc. Independent Distributor in Canada now. The latest from Gene is that he now car ries N.O.S., Year One, Metro Molded rubber products, RPM, Soffseal, ACC carpets and Spectra Gas Tanks. This month only, all club members are offered a 10% discount off any of his manufacturer's catalogues, good on prepaid orders. No duties, no brokerage f ees and no shipping charges. (Not to be used in conjunction with other discounts.) Mr. C's presents the "classic & muscle car fuel tank collection" from Spectra. I need one for Granny and the Scab's three tanks (!) are suspect, so at least one car is gett ing tanked! (Tank you very much.) Another April spring special is the offer "15% off all carpet sets, trunk mats and glove boxes", daily UPS and postal service(s). Box 571, Virgil, ON L0S 1T0 (905) 468-0719 Mon.-Fri. 10am-7pm, Sat. 10-2, closed Sundays. Recommended. /***/ Note too that in Ottawa, Terry Ingram of admittedly Chev-centric Ingram Automotive also carries the full line of Auto Custom Carpets. His number is (613) 489-2522 and he can be found at 6391 First Line in Kars, just up the road from our beloved Riverside Restorations (Canada's finest!), who in turn can be reached at (613) 692-6160. Ask for Bob or Noel. /***/ Member Stompin' Tom Connors has tons of parts right now, call him at (613) 258-1516 and if you need any home renovations his compa ny Thomas Installations can be reached at the same number, try him out, you won't regret it. Both my brother and Hemi owner Glenn Nixon (a supremely dignified and classy fellow) can attest to the quality of his work. Give him a call! /***/ The reported pr oblems at last year's Arnprior Car Show have been apologized for and Graham McInnes and J.P. Sylvestre of the Aylmer show have been retained to run the affair this year. No delays and a timely awards ceremony are promised, which apparently was not the cas e last year. (I didn't attend, but things ran ‘til almost 6 pm!) That won't happen this time, so you may want to consider it this go-round. * Mike Ogilvie's "Runs 9's" crazy blown/injected Rampage will be one of the featured vehicles at the Smiths Falls s how June 29. Good folks, try and make it.

M'Enfin! Spotter's Guide LXIX
I finally got my last five roll of film developed from 1996, dating to last year's Sterling and Smith's Falls shows. Three of the rolls were also from Chryslers @ Carlisle. Whew! My unemployment is not only breaking the spirit, driving me half-looney but also putting a serious damper on one of my favourite hobbies, itself an offshoot of this, our Pentastar fetish. I've never had to play things this close to the vest (although I do have a bit of breathing room after selling a coupla parts and my Marshall a mplifier). Enough whining, here's a summary of the photos, call it a pre-season Spotter's Guide: Pic' number one, a cool big block ‘64 Fury sedan for sale, fairly nice shape, needs TLC but cool. Dual exhaust, too. Ooh! A radio delete ‘74 Dart Custom, orig inal paint, perfect shape. Unloved, unwanted, but a rare survivor. Ah yes, that"Fox & Hound" bed and breakfast ‘flagship', the 1955 Town & Country Wagon, also for sale. Two-tone and "You look absolutely mahvellous!" A perfect 383 4-spd ‘69 Super Bee for s ale, a rare and beautiful white 1969 383 Barracuda Formula S for sale with the expensive CPPA under body header, $15,000 CAN. A robin's egg blue 1966 Sport Fury, bias plies and original wheel covers. Near-same colour, a 1956 Savoy, blue and white, very pr etty ‘school teacher' car. That was Sterling, now Smith's Falls: A lovely 318 1969 Charger for sale, mint with vinyl and correct wheel covers. Next to it a purr-fect 318 1968 Sport Fury wheelcovers correct but no vinyl (one of my faves due to my being ‘we aned' on a ‘68 V.I.P. by my Dad). From the sticks in Gatineau, QC, where one Moe Filiatreault hoards, a 1956 Desoto, tough but lots of potential. A 1965 New Yorker (the one with the white tail lights) and on the way back from Moe's a pretty ‘67 Barracuda convertible, red as they all should be (hey, it's only an opinion!). On the way to Charlie Laurin's, a cool 1963 Dart 33 6 cylinder sedan, Granny's own Grandmere? Those grilles really are Exner's LSD trip! At Charlie's Junkyard, a ‘63 Valiant, a ‘rolled' ‘68(?) Half ton, a ‘chopped' ‘70 300 stopped in mid-custom, now sadly rusting. One promising car, hit in the front when very new, still perfect floor boards, trunk, etc., but needs frame straightened in front, a perfect candidate for a big block, a 1970 D uster. In front of it, a 1958 Imperial Crown Sedan and across the aisle a 1968 Coronet sedan with a six, lots of promise as a beater car. Quite cute, in white. It should be saved. Now on to New York, Yew Nork III with sometime member Ian King: some incre dibly fascinating and relatively well-preserved Dodge Dump trucks and Fire trucks outside of Malone, on referral from notre ami Franco-Americain Jack "Jacques" Fleury. When have you ever seen a Series F 3 ton? Circa 1935, perhaps? The Fire Truck looks to be about 1934 or so. All there and sooooooo inviting! Next are miscellaneous: Stew's would-be 1966 Satellite convertible (still, we assume) at Christie Chrysler in Kemptville near Stompin' Tom's ‘digs'. Over priced, needs new LF fender, paint, interior go od, but to ask $8,500, well, they're ‘off' by three or four. (That's about what his gorgeous ‘74 Roadrunner is worth.) Some treasures from (an impatient) Stew and my tour #1 to Douglas (Rowan's junkyard 613-649-2988), a couple of nice shots of a no longer ‘topless Granny' (new vinyl roof) in the driveway at the ranch and haw haw! The transplant of Steve Chervinsky's year-correct 440 six pack motor into his four speed ‘70 Super Bee (original paint). If I didn't have the best ‘line' of 1996 that day, nobody did. Steve, my brother, it will cost you not to put that one in the FSN!!! Fifteen shots, some very dark to the lack of a flash, but most bringing back fond memories of Doctor Logan's wicked abilities as transplant co-ordinator. Though now M.I.A., he tak es the 1996 prize as the Dr. Christian Barnyard of MoPar Experience for helping out both Stevie C and Uncle T' with our swaps. A million thanks to the big brute. "Lassie, come home!" Or should that read "laddie?" Naw, doesn't ring the same.
The next three rolls are nothing but Carlisle. If you want to see the results, drop by Granny's under hood area any time at a show or cruise this summer. "Now Showing: Nuttin' but MoPars!", my favourite drive-in (drivin'?). (It) Reminds me of the two wags who were perusing one of my albums at the front of the Satellite one Tuesday last spring at Rocco's. Wag One to Wag Two: "There's nuthin' but Dodge in there!" McLean: "No, no, there's Chrysler, Plymouth and Desoto in there, too!" Dumbfounded silence ensu ed.
Note to Stewball: you absolutely have to see the new dealership sticker on the back of Granny, you'll split yourself. As for the intended recipient of my ahem, affectionate humour, the ‘nearly senior' gentleman will himself no doubt be ‘impressed' as will his sidekick Bob. ‘Canada's Finest' indeed!

Attention Getter

Wanna get people milling about the front of your car at cruises, shows and similar events this summer? Do what Uncle Tony does: put a photo album on the top of the rad/rad support/grille and watch ‘em swarm. People will stay, talk, look, it makes your veh icle one of the most interesting and memorable stops on their ‘tour' that day. It's a guaranteed foolproof way to make friends and entertain people and draw even more attention to your (p)ride. Try it, you'll no' regret it laddies and lassies! (Damn Scott ish relapse from watching McCallum...)
April Fuels!

I figured a few at least would inquire about it. "Chuck Pierce!? The Chuck Pierce!?" several freaked, including Mummie, though how she figured (while loading her Remington 12 gauge) that I could afford a Chuck Pierce (or any other pro' resto, for that mat ter) that is definitely beyond me. The truth is, I didn't win any 6/49 money (MacLean and MacLean jokes immediately come to mind, but this is a family newsletter, innit?) and the attention I will shower upon the Fowl beastie will be nearly all mine, with a heppin' hand from Livermore's and sundry other good Samaritans. But for the first time since the thought entered my clouded mind that the disgusting but beloved rolling eyesore must live again, I have all the parts necessary for a TOTAL resto!!!!! Yes, it's all there, now it's just time, patience elbow grease, a running engine and one day in the next year or two the Flying Scab will no longer be descriptive of my 1973 ‘Roid'runner. Maybe I should have a contest to pick its new nickname? Nah, I insist on ly I, the cham-peen nickname coin-er of all time (how modest) will re-Christen her. Stay tuned. Oh, and one more thing: I have finished restoring the front license, now I just have to do the car!

Uncle Tony's 1997 Season Show Listings

Apr. 4-6 Autorama, Ottawa 613-446-4717(Pizza@Prescott Hotel, Sat. 5 pm)
Apr. 17-20 Spring Carlisle
May 3,4 Sterling Auto Flea Market
May 10 Duck Race Car Show, Col. By Drive @ Carleton U.
May 9-11 Chrysler Classic, Columbus, OH, Jeff 614-268-1181
May 17 Smith's Falls Car Show, Dave 613-264-0750
May 25 Oxford Mills Car Show, cbryant@magmacom.com
May TBA Spring Fling, Mississauga, Ont.
May 31- 1 Cumberland Steam Museum Car Show
June 1 Byward Market Auto Classic (613) 562-3325 fax -3326
SUNDAY JUNE 15, 1997 RICHMOND SUPERSHOW & TRUCK PULL
All-Makes car show & Northern Pullers "Super Modifieds"
at Richmond Fairgrounds, 10 min from Kanata, 20 min from Ottawa
Phone Larry Way 613-446-4717
or Tony McLean 613-836-7549 moparman@storm.ca
June 22 (British) Sports Car show @ Richmond Fairgrounds
June 22 Grenville Christian College Car Show, Brockville
June 29 Smiths Falls Rolling Thunder Show, Mike Ogilvie 613-283-9497
July 1 Arnprior Car Show, Kevin Hill 613-623-7301
July 4-6 Trenton Street Rod Nats
July 12 Harley Day on Sparks St. Mall
July 11-13 Chryslers @ Carlisle
July 26, 27 Granby, Que. Car Show, Bob Robitaille 514-777-1330
July 27 (tent.) Aviation Museum car show
Aug. 3 Brockville TISMA show
Aug. 10 Winchester Dairyfest Show
Aug. 10 Aylmer, Que. Car Show @ the marina
Aug. 16 Wellington Dodge Chrysler show, Guelph, Ont.
Aug. 17 MoParfest ‘97, New Hamburg, Ont.
Aug. 17 Sterling Ford NCMA show
Aug. 24 GM Autofest (***all makes!!!), Gary 905-579-7051, Oshawa
Aug. 31 Rockland Street Show
Sept. 7 Renfrew Car Show
Sept. 7 Chryslers @ Niagara
Sept. 13, 14 Nepean Sportsplex sports car show
Sept. 21 Rocco's Cruizin' Into Fall
Oct. 2-5 Fall Carlisle
local cruises: Gatineau Toys R Us, les mercredis des que le 7 mai
Place d'Orleans mall, Wednesdays eves. from May 14
Canadian Tire, Bank/Heron, Sun. nights, Apr. 6 to Halloween
Perth cruises Mon. from May 26-Aug 25
"The Donut" on Carling Ave, especially Fri., Sat. (Wed. NCMA nite)
Info: moparman@storm.ca (613) 836-7549

The ‘Ski Report

Time now for the email droppings of one Bee-ver Chervinsky, y'all...
In a recent post by a fellow MMLer, the guy said to check out the Nash Cuda feature in MoPar Muscle Feb. ‘97. I did, just to amuse myself, as I am a fan of Nash. I digress. What's up with the cover???
This seems to be the new way of thinking at Ma MoPar. The article reads "Fastest MoPar Ever!" "Move over 440 six pack and 426 Hemi, Viper GTS is the baddest of the street MoPars."
OK, let's put all of this into perspective. The times of Hemis and 440 six packs was a glorious time indeed. For $4,500 you could own a piece of history, and tear up the streets. This was done on Polyglas rubber and good ol' HP. Anyone off the street coul d go into his MoPar dealer and drop a fraction of his salary (like ½ or 1/3) into a Hemi and claim top honours on the street. Here MoPar's reputation began: bang for the buck, MoPar reigned supreme!
Enter the ‘80's, a pretty dismal time for Ma MoPar, near-bankruptcy, then ‘people movers' became the name of the game (K-cars). I know these cars SAVED Ma MoPar from extinction thus I hold respect for what they were meant to do, point ‘a' to point ‘b' tra nsportation.
Now we're in the ‘90's and Ma MoPar is going strong. "Let's create something that personified what MoPar once was." Enter Viper. MoPar enthusiasts' interest was piqued once again. The Viper GTS is now the flagship of Ma MoPar.
Here is my beef: they are competing in a market where the Camaro and Mustang have had their ups and downs through the years, but once again are cars that the masses can afford, and can go fast with. In the past, MoPar was the king of the street with perfo rmance AT AN AFFORDABLE PRICE!
The GTS is an $80K dream machine that is for the elite and not the masses. The Prowler is a little more for the masses, but is more ‘show than go'. Why do the authors of the magazine compare the Viper GTS to Hemis and 6 packs of old, when they are about a s similar as a Super Bird and an Intrepid?
It is good to know that MoPar is on top with the fastest US production car in the market, but ‘diehards' are left yearning for something they can afford. This may sound like a petition to bring back a RWD affordable MoPar for the masses, but my point is m ore the way a modern society tries (compare something from) the past without taking into account all of the variables.
$80K for a MoPar street terror? Three times a normal current salary, rather than a fraction of Mr. Common Joe's pay? I found the article appalling and it left me wondering what they were talking about. OK, this is my rant for the day, I'll stop now.
Steve Chervinsky
scatpack@generation.net
So true brother Steven and don't forget the 1968 Roadrunner: $2,800 for a 335 HP 383. One reason our cars are so popular is not just nostalgia but necessity! While not wanting to offend owners of current offerings, as you say, where's the 90's equivalent of our 60's muscle? GM & Ford still make these fun cars, why not us? Shame! Mummie's Acclaim did get me to and from Carlisle last July in style, comfort and cheaply, but does it really cut it at the malt shop? Short of being adopted by Eddie Lett, how am I ever going to afford a Viper or a Prowler?

*Looking for Work!*

Yes, Uncle Tony is still unemployed and if you have any suggestions, references, etc., please send them to me at 119 McCurdy Drive, Kanata, ON K2L 3W5 or call (613) 836-7549 email moparman@storm.ca. Merci d'avance! C.V., references and salary requirements available upon request. Don't make me phone Sen. MacEachan!

Richmond SuperShow and Truck Pull

Sunday June 15, 1997 - Be there!

Members File
Robert Blair 1970 Barracuda, 1997 Ram 3500 club cab 4x4 Richmond, BC
Andre Blouin 1958 Chrysler Windsor Beauport, QC
Michel Brazeau 1987 D150 Ram V6, 1968 Dart GT Orleans, ON
^(hemi@magi.com)
Brian Carleton will advise Bracken, SK
Anne-Marie Chervinsky ‘74 340 Cuda, 1985 Fifth Avenue Kirkland, QC
Steve Chervinsky 1970 Super Bee 440 6 pak 4 speed, 66 Barracuda, Kirkland, QC
^(scatpack@generation.net) ‘69 Dart, 80 Aspen
Ray Chervinsky 1966 Formula S Barracuda + "The Herd" Haverhill, MA
Tom Connors 1969 Roadrunner 383 4-speed Kemptville, ON
Philip Eryou 1973 340 Duster, 1986 Shelby Ch., ‘85 Caravelle (cop) Bishopton, QC
Jason "Jake" Inouye 1978 Lil' Red Express truck (x2), 1977 Warlock Newmarket, ON
Wilson Lee 1970 Challenger SE 340 Trenton, ON
^(wwlwi@connect.reach.net)
Bill MacGregor 1988 Lebaron convertible Orleans, ON
Peter McEwen 1965 Chrysler Windsor 361 Sudbury, ON
Olive McLean 1973 Roadrunner, 1992 Acclaim Kanata, ON
Tony McLean 1970 Satellite 440+6, 1979 Newport Kanata, ON
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Lucien Menard 1985 Dodge MaxVan 360 propane Gloucester, ON
Mark Moga 1970 340 Challenger 4 speed, 1989 Lebaron Kanata, ON
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Rick Robitaille 1983 440 p/u, ‘88 Dakota, ‘74 Charger Englehart, ON
Michael Savard 1970 Satellite, 1973 Duster Vaudreuil, QC
Randal Severson 1971 340 Cuda, 97 Dakota Sport Oxford Mills, ON
Ronald Tate 1968 Barracuda 340 Formula S, 1982 Mirada Nepean, ON
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Dave Taylor 1980 Volare, 82 Fifth Ave., 87 Lebaron, ‘91 Shadow Brockville, ON
Delmont Thornton 1971 340 Demon 4 spd. York County, NB
Paul Tyson 1980 Ram, 1984 Ram Cobden, ON
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Hilton Waddell 1968 Monaco 500 convertible Russell, ON
Mike Wells 1970 383 Challenger SE Hamilton, ON
Donald Werbowetsky will advise Roblin, MB
~dues due: Stewart Logan, Ian King (I'm not giving up!).
Members we won't forget:
Terry McLean (1923-1993) 1968 VIP, 1973 Roadrunner, 1992 Acclaim
Tom Thomson (1956-1992), 1975 360 Duster (triple black, factory sun roof)
Surfers! check out Mental Mike's magnificent MoPar manipulations at www.storm.ca/~hemi
and my own at: www.storm.ca/~moparman
email Tony: moparman@storm.ca
Und: call 613.836.7549 and tell me your vehicle and t shirt size! N.B.: "Larges" on order!
Tee sizes L, XL, XXL, XXL. Fruit of the Loom "Heavy" 98% cotton, pre-shrunk.
$16 + $4 postage if you require additional shirts. ($18 US for southern pals.)