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Red. At his request, I rebuilt the engine with Forged
TRW pistons, a performance Crane cam, headers, and
a nitrous oxide system. Eventually I bought the car and
have been upgrading and driving it ever since. Another
car was a 1968 Pontiac GTO that was my friend’s mom’s
original car. I returned the car to its muscle car status
after bringing it to my home on the Outer Banks of North
Carolina for a long R+R session. It is now back in Franklin
Square at a mutual friend’s house. I have a 1967 Chevy
ll that I’ve built a supercharged 427 Small block Chevy
(4.125” bore x 4” stroke) for and reconfigured most of
the car except the body. A 1931 Plymouth Convertible
is parked next to it who’s frame I’d reinforced. I bought
a 4x8 sheet of ten-gauge steel, made templates of
the original frames contours and cut the sheet with a
plasma cutter before encapsulating the original frame
in fresh metal with a MIG welder. I had first built it for
a supercharged 540 Chevy engine but am currently
building a 1958 Chrysler Hemi for it in order to keep it
all Mopar. These are the cars that turn back the hands
of time for me every time I turn the key and turn off the
radio. It happens as they settle into their chaotic idle that
always sounds to me like the opening drum riff of Van
Halen’s “Hot for Teacher”.
An oral surgeon friend in Suffolk County has a sign in her
private office that says ”God put me here to accomplish
a certain number of tasks. Right now, I am so far
behind that I can never die.” Don’t we all wish that were
true? Meanwhile I’ll be watching the Weather Channel
for hurricanes and tropical storms to make waves and
building and driving hot rods whenever I have time. Thank
goodness for selecting Dentistry as a profession, living on
Long Island, and having a very patient and understanding
high performance unit, replaced the carburetor with a wife.
Holley 780cfm four barrel one, the quiet restrictive stock
air cleaner and its tiny silencing snorkel with a fully open
element cleaner. Then, for good measure, I changed the
weights and springs in the distributor for quicker ignition ATTENTION ALL WRITERS!
advance. While Paul and I cleaned up, Anthony went The Bulletin needs you! Do you like
gunning for Kenny. He came back all smiles and said to write? Would you like to share your
that the only thing Kenny said after he’d beaten him a experiences with readers of the Bulletin?
few times was “What the hell did your brother do to your
car?” Fortunately, he didn’t blow it up. Made my day! Any hobbies, adventures, interests you
think others would enjoy hearing about?
My friend Paul is a car and surfing accomplice from A dental theme is not required. Go ahead
high school and we still do both. In 1984 he had a silver and send us your thoughts. The Bulletin
1973 Corvette that he wanted to paint red and since
we had both worked in the same body shop and had would love to help you see your name in
the skills, he stripped it and painted it Porsche Guards print.
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