Re: UK Mopars - Duxford

[Tom Watters <tomwatters@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Robert,

Great pic's.

Nice to see a white '65 Dart GT sitting there on page one.  Glad to see
one out there.

On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 00:28:20 +0000, "Robert  (UK)" <r.lane@xxxxxxxxxx>
said:
> 
> Yet more pics for you to trawl through!
> 
> http://s65.photobucket.com/albums/h233/rob426uk/Duxford%202007/?start=0
> 
> Had our club meet at the fabulous Duxford Imperial War Museum 
> http://duxford.iwm.org.uk/ a couple of weeks ago. Thankfully this year 
> we had good weather, compared to last year when we had snow at the 1st 
> meet in April and heavy rain for the 2nd in Oct.
> 
> Scuse the non-Mopar (& non 62-65!) in there but we threw the invite open 
> to all American cars, tho the vast majority as you can see are Mopars.
> The Neon & new Charger are owned by a couple of young US Navy guys over 
> here working at a NATO base just north of London.
> 
> The 62 Dart is the only 62 2dr over here as far as I know, and is still 
> poly-powered. The owner is resiting the temptation to go B/RB as he also 
> has a 68 Dart he races (also in the pics, in grey primer), a 
> Sox'n'Martin lookalike Barracuda that's getting hemified this winter, a 
> 62 Belvedere soon to MaxWedged, and a 69 Charger in D.O.H. colours that 
> he used for the occasional wedding & charity event.
> 
> Also of interest is the pale blue 65 Belvedere that looks ready for a 
> new paint job. The owner is keeping it like that as he's done the 
> rotisserie-restos (his last couple of cars, 2x 69 Chargers were 100% 
> restos) and wanted a driver that he didnt have to worry too much about 
> looking after. Ironically, maintaining the 'patina' as it is, is also a 
> bit of a nitemare, tho I hear he's used vegetable oil on the paint & 
> rust to preserve its current condition!
> 
> There were also club meets there for Triumph, Caterham/Lotus 7 & TVR 
> clubs, hence the odd pic of a funny looking British car!
> 
> Also a few shots taken inside a new hangar featuring just British 
> planes. I've already been around the American hangar a couple of times 
> so didnt bother with photos of that this time, sorry!
> 
> Robert
> 63 Polara 500
> England
> 
> 
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