Wagons in vintage Street scenes

Erik Askjem of Norway has done a lot of customizing on his '74. The wagon sports a Toyota 4Runner front bumper and lots of hand-made body pieces.



















David writes: This photo shows me in my 1962 Dodge Dart wagon The Tennessee Hustler at Great Lakes Dragaway in Union Grove Wisconsin in August of 1978.

I bought the former race car as-is, earlier that year from Bredemann Buick in Park Ridge Illinois. In hopes of somehow making it streetable. (An 18 year old’s pipe dream to say the least.) Bredemann was trying to get into some high performance cars. But thieves quickly started trying to remove stuff off the cars on their lot at night, and began vandalizing some of the new car inventory in the process. So the owner told the GM to get all the hot rods out of there. Consequently I was called to “come and get my car,” after making only two $400 payments towards the $1500 I was supposed to pay. I originally found an ad for it in the old Tradin’ Times paper.

I worked at Holiday Texaco in Evanston Illinois at the time. So I took our tow truck out there, and brought the Mopar back to the shop.

The Dart had a 383 engine, dual quads and 10-1 compression. The Mopar also had remnants of a PowerFlite 2 speed push button transmission with a stall speed, and a line lock on the brakes. Half of which worked. We got it running well enough to take up to the strip on Grudge Night. Where I did one embarrassing test run of 16 something, misfiring most of the way.

Shortly after this photo was taken, I was told to leave the track. So alas, no second run. Apparently a Bo-Peep ammonia bottle that was rigged as a radiator overflow, did just that. The track flunky mistakenly yelled at me that I was leaking oil, and that was that.

Once back home, I pulled the engine to put in my 1967 Dodge Polara 500 convertible. Which never fully came together, for one reason or another. The 383 just had some timing problems, but eventually did run well. The partial trans swap did not go as well, and I guess it just was not meant to be.

The Dart wagon body was sadly sent to the crusher due to space constrictions at the Texaco. But the front seat made it’s way into our tow truck. I sold the slicks and wheels. The 383 later went to power a friend’s 1968 Dodge Charger. Though I never did see it actually on the street.

Being so young at the time, I just had no idea what the value would be some day, of both the Dart and Polara.

 

The kids are smiling now, but just wait......No playng, you'll get your good cloths dirty........

Who brings white shirts and bow ties camping??

 

Proof there's aliens........

 

alien ampers?

Oh God! My town Calgary home of nerds who go camping in white shirts and bow ties. Car was sold from Stampede Pontiac Of Calgary no longer in business Wonder why? They sold to aliens

 

Anyone else notice the "Shaker" hood on the drop-top 69 Mustang? Could be a rare Cobra Jet.

 

I was thinking the same thing. Very rare. Never actually seen any 69 Mustang convertible with the factory shaker hood (not even a clone).

 

That could be a movie shot. With the chopper there I was thinking maybe '5 Easy Pieces'...Peter Fonda / Dennis Hopper / Jack Nicholson?

 

Actually, according to Kevin Marti's book on Mustang production, there were 5 total 428CJ's produced in '69. One of them, a light green version was featured in a Mustang Monthly article about 15 years ago and it had a shaker. I have the mag... but it's in storage with the hundreds of other boxes of magazines at the moment. I also have a page from a calendar clipped out showing another painted light blue with a shaker hood. The caption read that it was also a 428CJ.

I built a model of one the way I would have optioned mine:

 

Hope this is not too off topic... but found a picture of the picture. In other words I was setting up a photo shot for a model car magazine cover. On the wall is the Mustang clipping from the calendar. It was black not blue... but looks like a CJ or SCJ to me!

 

Very nice! My modeling skills never came close to being even half that good.