I hate to tell you that..., it's partly my fault...
Last september I bought a '57 Dodge CRL D500 of eBay, from Bremerton,
WA.
The former owner used to take it to shows in the direct vacinity.
I took it home and it's in The Netherlands now.
Jim Hoekendijk
The Netherlands
'57 Dodge CRL D500 4dr.
'57 Dodge RL D500 2dr.
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Van: Bill Hughes <bhughes@xxxxxxx>
Datum: maandag, mei 2, 2005 7:01 am
Onderwerp: [FWDLK] Back from Mopars Unlimited Seattle
> Just got back from the Annual Mopars Unlimited event in
> Seattle/Bellevue/Bremerton, WA.
>
> I am astounded by the number of Chrysler products that are roaming
the
> street and drag strips of the Pacific Northwest. The drag/bracket
> racing at
> Bremerton on Saturday kept me there until 6:30 PM to see who would
> win the
> Sportsman class. Came down to a .02 second breakout loss by a
> Canadian from
> Duncan, BC, Canada. He was running a 72 Plymouth Sport Fury 318
> ci dual
> carb.
>
> While it was exciting to see the number of Mopar cars that were
> shown on the
> Sunday at the Bellevue Community College grounds, it was
> disappointing to
> see only a handful of ForwardLook cars there. There had to be 200-
250
> Mopars there registered for the show, plus if you walked the
> parking lot
> areas there were dozens more. The predominance was late 60, early
> 70¹sMopar muscle cars. I made a comment to my daughter that if on
> the stroke of
> noon, they had fired up all the cars there that it would register
> on the
> earthquake monitors.
>
> There was only one 56 Dodge Coronet, one 58 Dodge Custom Royal
> (mint), and a
> couple of other ForwardLook cars represented. Probably less than
> an dozen.
> A comment made by a local ForwardLook owner was that years ago the
> show had
> dozens of late 50¹s early 60¹s cars. Where are all our cars? We
> should be
> registering for these kind of shows even though we do not have a
> trophy-winning car. We have to keep our era represented and not be
> sidelined by to Mopar muscle cars.
>
> My opinion, yours is welcome.
>
> Bill Hughes
> Vancouver, B.C.
>
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