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jsrail |
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Expert Posts: 1590 Location: Scottsdale, AZ | B/G 61 - 2009-08-27 2:52 PM No, but when you have to have a second job to cover you mag subs each month you get the issues before they hit the news-stands . . . How funny will it be in a few years when people LAUGH at the idea of magazines being printed instead of just gettin them "on-line" !?!? How funny will it be tryin to explain to people about "news-stands" !?!?!? My brother-in-law just told me yesterday he was driving his daughter and her friend home in his beater Honda and the kids were complaining of the heat - he told his daughters girl friend to roll down the window . . . She didn't do anything because she couldn't find the "button" . . . He actually had to show her how to "roll" down the window using a crank ! ! ! ! ! ! Guess I'll have to start carrying my laptop into the john! | ||
d500neil |
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Exner Expert 19,174 posts. Neil passed away 18 Sep 2015. You will be missed, Neil! Posts: 19146 Location: bishop, ca | ,,,Is that supposed to help you down-load something, Jay? | ||
jsrail |
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Expert Posts: 1590 Location: Scottsdale, AZ | Somethin' gotta help those darn med side effects! | ||
B/G 61 |
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Expert Posts: 2612 Location: Parts Unknown | "We" all "heard" of the Lee Petty crash a few posts ago in this thread, now we can "see" it . . . (pettycrash.jpg) Attachments ---------------- pettycrash.jpg (12KB - 476 downloads) | ||
lawrence |
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Expert Posts: 3951 Location: Bama | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVE8H1JdX2g | ||
B/G 61 |
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Expert Posts: 2612 Location: Parts Unknown | And thanks to Lawrence, we can see the picture moving !!!! Thanks Lawrence !!!! | ||
d500neil |
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Exner Expert 19,174 posts. Neil passed away 18 Sep 2015. You will be missed, Neil! Posts: 19146 Location: bishop, ca | ahhh,ummmm.....that's a '61 Chubster, Yikey...doing the Flying Burrito Brothers tribute. Edited by d500neil 2009-10-05 6:13 PM | ||
B/G 61 |
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Expert Posts: 2612 Location: Parts Unknown | But the mangled up ball of steel is all Ma MoPar ! ! ! | ||
lawrence |
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Expert Posts: 3951 Location: Bama | I just typed Last Lee Petty Race or Crash(can't remember) in the address bar. That crash had to have hurt. I count 4 lanes almost straight up, that's got to be close to 40' off the ground. My Y and I were admiring the roll cage and bench seats. Probably just a lap belt too. That's real racing!! | ||
d500neil |
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Exner Expert 19,174 posts. Neil passed away 18 Sep 2015. You will be missed, Neil! Posts: 19146 Location: bishop, ca | And, so-tis! Didn't even notice the "other" car! BTW, referring back to "40 Years of Stock Car Racing" (Vol II), the newspaper article in Re: this lead-in 100 mile qualifying race at Daytona (this guy did NOT occur during the 500 mile Grand National race, 2 days later) : " Lee Petty and Johnny Beauchamp, principals in the inaugural Daytona 500 finish in 1959, were involved in a bone-snapping horrifying crash in the last lap[!!!]. Petty's Plymouth and Beauchamp's Chubster locked bumpers in the third turn and both machines [being generous to the Generic Motors-mobile] hurtled the guard rail while traveling 150 MPH. ...". | ||
dukeboy |
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Expert 5K+ Posts: 6203 Location: Big pimpin' | Left hand turn guys drive around in circles looking for the finish line.....Straight line guys drive straight towards it..... | ||
Kelly |
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Veteran Posts: 233 Location: Oxnard/Ventura, California | This is an old picture I posted... Edited by Kelly 2009-10-12 7:21 PM (racetrack.jpg) Attachments ---------------- racetrack.jpg (42KB - 466 downloads) | ||
d500neil |
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Exner Expert 19,174 posts. Neil passed away 18 Sep 2015. You will be missed, Neil! Posts: 19146 Location: bishop, ca | That's a photo of Kelly's former ride, there; you driving it, in the photo? | ||
Kelly |
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Veteran Posts: 233 Location: Oxnard/Ventura, California | Hey Neil!!! I heard it sold last year for TEN GRAND!!!! I am in Gulfport, and there is a Dodge Brothers dealership here, that still has the stained glass DB Star of David above the doors! I thought of you when I saw them... I will post them in a bit.. KFD | ||
d500neil |
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Exner Expert 19,174 posts. Neil passed away 18 Sep 2015. You will be missed, Neil! Posts: 19146 Location: bishop, ca | HEH....I wish I WAS related to the Dodge Brothers.... You got lotsa free time, in the NAV; go get/read "Tangled Web" and the couple-other books on the Dodge Brothers. All the family members were waiting for Matilda Dodge (John's widow---IIRC) to die, but she out-lived her offspring. We-all don't KNOW from what real unimaginable wealth is/was, compared to the actual income which was 'earned' by the industrial magnates, around the turn of THE century. BTW, my dear sainted pappy used to say that the BEST/nicest female-types were to be found in the Deep-South --any RACY experience, FWDLK-related, in that regard, so far? Edited by d500neil 2009-10-12 7:58 PM | ||
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Expert Posts: 3967 Location: DFW, TX | Dug through the ol' "archives" and here's a few. How about some 300s doing what they do best! (0087_1b.jpg) (0087_2b.jpg) (0087_3b.jpg) (401528797EenoGo_ph.jpg) (chry5501.jpg) (chry5501a.jpg) (mercury55.jpg) (p96364_image_large.jpg) Attachments ---------------- 0087_1b.jpg (92KB - 457 downloads) 0087_2b.jpg (118KB - 452 downloads) 0087_3b.jpg (86KB - 466 downloads) 401528797EenoGo_ph.jpg (56KB - 471 downloads) chry5501.jpg (24KB - 496 downloads) chry5501a.jpg (21KB - 456 downloads) mercury55.jpg (16KB - 483 downloads) p96364_image_large.jpg (25KB - 484 downloads) | ||
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Expert Posts: 3967 Location: DFW, TX | And some RADICAL Forward Looks!! (279.jpg) (2002PMCCA2_254_34.jpg) (bg_dsc01508.jpg) (DSC09553.jpg) (firstdrive2sm.jpg) (web57Chrysler300A.jpg) (web57Chrysler300B.jpg) (webChryslerSantaPod.jpg) (webChryslerx24.jpg) Attachments ---------------- 279.jpg (219KB - 467 downloads) 2002PMCCA2_254_34.jpg (21KB - 477 downloads) bg_dsc01508.jpg (47KB - 452 downloads) DSC09553.jpg (48KB - 482 downloads) firstdrive2sm.jpg (62KB - 498 downloads) web57Chrysler300A.jpg (7KB - 466 downloads) web57Chrysler300B.jpg (6KB - 486 downloads) webChryslerSantaPod.jpg (7KB - 448 downloads) webChryslerx24.jpg (8KB - 463 downloads) | ||
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Expert Posts: 3967 Location: DFW, TX | And some cars that went RACIN but may not have participated themselves- (57ply2drsedan.jpg) (scan0044.jpg) (ned%20%20beginnings%20%20.jpg) (1956IMSpacecar.jpg) Attachments ---------------- 57ply2drsedan.jpg (174KB - 575 downloads) scan0044.jpg (100KB - 478 downloads) ned%20%20beginnings%20%20.jpg (45KB - 467 downloads) 1956IMSpacecar.jpg (79KB - 452 downloads) | ||
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Expert Posts: 3967 Location: DFW, TX | And finally, just some fun stuff- (wagon.jpg) (t57swept.gif) (t58fury.gif) Attachments ---------------- wagon.jpg (77KB - 471 downloads) t57swept.gif (15KB - 460 downloads) t58fury.gif (13KB - 461 downloads) | ||
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Elite Veteran Posts: 1119 Location: STL, MO | There is Claudia I asked about, RIP Dick Landy...that blue wagon is my template! at least I can sorta see what the upscale side trim would look like on a 2dr, Where did you find that? | ||
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Expert Posts: 3967 Location: DFW, TX | Made it. It's a Muscle Machines '57 Fury with a scratchbuilt roof. The posts are toothpicks. (!BYrw!CQBGk~$(KGrHgoH-D8EjlLl)cYWBKi1mhi)2Q~~_12.jpg) Attachments ---------------- !BYrw!CQBGk~$(KGrHgoH-D8EjlLl)cYWBKi1mhi)2Q~~_12.jpg (46KB - 432 downloads) | ||
d500neil |
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Exner Expert 19,174 posts. Neil passed away 18 Sep 2015. You will be missed, Neil! Posts: 19146 Location: bishop, ca | Danny, who drew the caricatures? How is the chassis attached to the body, on those Muscle Machines?--rivets? Just noticed the car parked across the street from that Plymouth. Too bad that the Plymouth V800 engine option didn't carry its own nameplate-emblem! | ||
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Expert Posts: 3967 Location: DFW, TX | No idea who did the drawings, but I like em. The little cars are held together with a single screw. And just FYI, the black '57 Plaza was powered by a hot '56 DeSoto 330- Edited by 57burb 2009-10-14 6:32 PM | ||
d500neil |
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Exner Expert 19,174 posts. Neil passed away 18 Sep 2015. You will be missed, Neil! Posts: 19146 Location: bishop, ca | ..is THAT why it's sitting so low, in front ?---LOLOLOL Somebody installed an over-head rear view mirror on it, too, probably due to its 'attack-angle', huh? Edited by d500neil 2009-10-14 8:14 PM | ||
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Elite Veteran Posts: 726 Location: Some Island called Prince Edward | I'd love to enter my Dodge into the Pure Stock Drags someday! | ||
HemiEd |
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Veteran Posts: 103 | That was great, thanks for posting all the pictures! | ||
Handygun |
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Elite Veteran Posts: 1119 Location: STL, MO | You knocked it outta the park with the wagon, What do you know about the 300 flopper? | ||
B/G 61 |
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Expert Posts: 2612 Location: Parts Unknown | Mr. Neil sent me a link of a 4bbl manifold for the Slant Six a while back off of Ebay. I dropped the ball on that one, although I'm sure there is at least one on Ebay now. ANYWAY, here is some pics of the Hyper-Pak Slant Six racing engine and stuff . . . (hyper 1.jpg) (hyper 2.jpg) (hyper 3.jpg) (hyper 4.jpg) (hyper 5.jpg) Attachments ---------------- hyper 1.jpg (117KB - 467 downloads) hyper 2.jpg (152KB - 428 downloads) hyper 3.jpg (114KB - 439 downloads) hyper 4.jpg (90KB - 446 downloads) hyper 5.jpg (96KB - 465 downloads) | ||
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Expert Posts: 2612 Location: Parts Unknown | Thanks to mogge65 for postin this pic on another thread for me to steal and post here !!! (61wagon.jpg) Attachments ---------------- 61wagon.jpg (86KB - 475 downloads) | ||
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Regular Posts: 69 Location: Central New Jersey, USA | While my only pics are not digital, if you all really want I can see if I can find my pics of my dad running his /6 powered 60 years ago and upload them... Ran a respectable 20.26... Not bad for a car weighing 4000lbs with a little 6 in it and only 3.31 gears. | ||
Ray Bell |
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Expert Posts: 2474 Location: Dalveen, Queensland, Australia | He must have been well ahead of his time... Please, post the pics! | ||
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Regular Posts: 69 Location: Central New Jersey, USA | Forgot a comma, that should read "his /6 powered 60, years ago" Edit: Actually it reads fine the way it was. "/6 powered 60 years ago" /6 powered what? 60... years ago is a separate thought... darn I hate the intricacies of the english language I'll see if I can find the pic though. Edited by marcar1993 2009-11-17 8:51 AM | ||
d500neil |
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Exner Expert 19,174 posts. Neil passed away 18 Sep 2015. You will be missed, Neil! Posts: 19146 Location: bishop, ca | I forget where the prompting-post was placed, on this website, but, this thread's commentary is as good as any.... The question/comment concerned the highest form of performance that was OEM bolt-on, in 1960-61, and I said that I had a magazine issue which discussed that concept. Well, I found it: (GOOD-old-) Motor Life (the most under-rated enthusiast magazine of the late 50's) 7/60 issue---which features the Watson custom-painted cars, as were discussed in a way-earlier Members Rides thread. The subject issue has a GREAT article: "Question: which is the HOTTEST 1960 car?" --Poncho had a 14.55/94.53; Fart had 14.81/94.71 ; Plymmie got 15.00/95.64 Dart got 15.19/86.03 and Chubbie got 15.36/92.78 The Dart suffered from the lack of a solid-lift cam/lifters that the Plymouth had available & installed on it, plus other information... There also is a WONDERFUL primer-article on general camshaft grinding/timing issues--all of the theory involved, for the beginner, with simple illustrations regarding what/how a camshaft operates. But I digress... The article that I was seeking is :"How to select [1960] Chrysler and DeSoto [performance-] options". They like the 300F engine, and say that:"As pointed out earlier, there is no one to stop you if you want to make a 300F out of a '59 Chrysler or DeSoto or even any 1960 model, but the factory will not do it for you....unless you buy a 300F." As far as the 1960 DeSoto is concerned (and this harkens back to a performance comment I made, on an Engine-Board thread, recently, about sticking a 'worked' Poly head onto a Hemi engine block, which has taller pistons than the Poly-block has): " The DeSoto uses a stroke length of 3.38 inches in both the 361 and 383 engines while the Chrysler has a stroke length of 3.75 inches throughout which means that there are four different bore sizes [between the two car models]. DeSoto has the BIGGEST bore size at a hulking 4.25 inches to make its 383 cubic inches while Chrysler has the smallest at 4.03 inches to make up its version of the 383 cubic inch engine. One might at first figure that there was a quick way to extra horses for the DeSoto merely by swapping [the longer-length Chrysler] crankshaft and connecting rods [while keeping the DeSoto's big pistons]. There is another interesting idea that comes to mind, too (here comes my thought/idea, above) : All the engines except the 300F have a 10.0:1 compression ratio (what is it: 10.5 :1 ?) across the board. Since the smaller DeSoto engine has the same ratio of combustion chamber volume to cylinder volume as the largest in the line, it follows that the chamber volume of the 361-inch engine is less than that of the 383, Used on the 383 block it could boost the compression ratio a full point. The major difference would be the smaller intake valve used in the 361 engine but judicious use of a 70-degree piloted reamer and eight of the large [Chrysler/383] valves would take care of that particular problem...... " This article has a lot of other neat concepts/ideas, and discusses various camshafts, carburetion, intakes and rear end ratios to the creating of :"...your own Q ship." And, also, this issue shows/discusses the installation of FM converters to our cars--and shows a fairly-slick looking Motorola unit, too. Find/buy/read this issue of Motor Life ! ...and, as this article was written in 1960, it probably pertains to the 1961 DeSoto models, too (if they had a 383 c.i. engine installed in them). Edited by d500neil 2009-11-24 4:21 PM | ||
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Expert Posts: 2679 | That is weird that in 1959 Chrysler made a 383 but the bore and stroke were 4.031 by 3.75, not like the "B" block bore and stroke used by Dodge and Desoto.... and yes the 361 had the smaller 1.94 and 1.6 valves.... compared to the 383's 2.08 and 1.6 or later exhaust valve of 1.74 So to get the most out of a set of heads you would want a set of 2.08 - 1.74 's not counting the 426's max wedge heads. The 383 was only available in the 60 Adventurer, 61 had just a weak slimmed down 265 HP 361. Seems like Chrysler knew they were dropping the axe on Desoto years earlier. Pretty sad for them.... Sounds like a good article with them talking about cams, carbs and rear ends.... thats my kind of talk. | ||
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Exner Expert 19,174 posts. Neil passed away 18 Sep 2015. You will be missed, Neil! Posts: 19146 Location: bishop, ca | So, a 361 DeSoto would need a bore-job to get to the 4.25", before all the other 1960 Chrysler internals could be installed into it, as per this article's info. At least, the owner would already have the 361 heads, to play with!!! And, a motivated '61 DeSoto owner could probably do the same things, to make a monster-sleeper out of his car's OEM 361 motor. Edited by d500neil 2009-11-24 5:34 PM | ||
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Veteran Posts: 198 Location: Bornholm / Denmark | - A guy in the nabohood.. (sepposaapola4.jpg) Attachments ---------------- sepposaapola4.jpg (47KB - 439 downloads) | ||
d500neil |
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Exner Expert 19,174 posts. Neil passed away 18 Sep 2015. You will be missed, Neil! Posts: 19146 Location: bishop, ca | Modified, really? Bet he's popular with the neighbors. | ||
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Elite Veteran Posts: 1119 Location: STL, MO | The 3.75 crank in a 383 would make a lowdeck 426, It would be interesting to build 3 383's a b-rb-common chevy 400 crank in a 350 block, build them as equally as possible and dyno them, is that the same blown 300 as 57 burb posted? | ||
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Expert Posts: 3967 Location: DFW, TX | One more I found. | ||
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Expert Posts: 3967 Location: DFW, TX | Stumbled on another cache today... pages 3-4 of this thread are BRILLIANT. http://www.ww2aircraft.net/forum/off-topic-misc/50s-60s-style-stock... Here's some FL-stuff. Tim Flock Fonty Flock | ||
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Member Posts: 8 | 61 Belvidere "2 tons of fun" complete with rattle can flames running at "Mopars at the Strip" in Las Vegas a couple of years ago. 440 with short rams turning low 14's. | ||
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Member Posts: 8 | 61 Belvidere "2 tons of fun" complete with rattle can flames running at "Mopars at the Strip" in Las Vegas a couple of years ago. 440 with short rams turning low 14's. (61 belvedere.bmp) Attachments ---------------- 61 belvedere.bmp (197KB - 451 downloads) | ||
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Expert Posts: 2612 Location: Parts Unknown | Sonoramic - 2010-01-27 1:14 AM 61 Belvidere "2 tons of fun" complete with rattle can flames running at "Mopars at the Strip" in Las Vegas a couple of years ago. 440 with short rams turning low 14's. Very cool ! any more pics of this car ???? | ||
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Member Posts: 8 | "2 tons of fun" before its race make over, came down from Wyoming to Colorado via an aution! 318 a/t belvidere! (Belvidere before.bmp) Attachments ---------------- Belvidere before.bmp (197KB - 433 downloads) | ||
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Expert Posts: 2612 Location: Parts Unknown | Here is a pic of what we all agree to be the coolest car EVER '61 DODGES ! ! ! It's a pic (bad scan) from the April 2010 Hemmings Muscle Machines - They call it a Polara and not a Dodge Phoenix, but it's a cool pic RACIN !!!! (scan61.jpg) Attachments ---------------- scan61.jpg (71KB - 416 downloads) | ||
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Exner Expert 19,174 posts. Neil passed away 18 Sep 2015. You will be missed, Neil! Posts: 19146 Location: bishop, ca | Mikey, that absolutely IS the best camera-angle for the 61 Dart series cars; no question. Notice anything, on its ass-end? And, since we both happen to love them, so much: try to imagine MY first new-car viewing, ever, of a 61 Phoenix 2-dr HT, as it approached and drove by me, slowly, as I was walking home from grade school, for lunch, on fine fall day.....when I was the impressionable age of 10. It was like looking at a freshly-landed UFO. Edited by d500neil 2010-03-09 9:30 PM | ||
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Expert Posts: 2612 Location: Parts Unknown | I can't tell if "THE EMBLEM" is there or not - I see the dual exhaust . . . | ||
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Location: Parts Unknown | IF the emblem is there, it is hidden in the rounding-out-of-sight curve beyond the back up light. Got one of those cars close at hand, and the body panel there curves forward to then jut back out to form that area where the tail light is at the corner. The tail light is not square, but quite "V" shaped to fit this contour. | ||
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Expert Posts: 3480 Location: Montreal, Canada | Vintage home video of a 1956 Dodge drag racing against a 1955 Chubby: http://jailamemoirequitourne.historiatv.com/videos/1089/courses-dau... | ||
d500neil |
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Exner Expert 19,174 posts. Neil passed away 18 Sep 2015. You will be missed, Neil! Posts: 19146 Location: bishop, ca | ...Well; it's either THE EMBLEM, or a dealer nameplate. I'm betting on 'the emblem'. | ||
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