An acquaintance of mine bought this B body....

[Catfish]

At the last Barrett Jackson auction. The guy working on my Polara is good friends with him. Seems the car has a great history and a shitload of paper work with it. One of the three guys on the front fender, I think Terry Welsh, is coming up to rebuild the center carb since it is leaking a tad. Just thought it was pretty neat.

http://www.barrett-jackson.com/application/onlinesubmission/lotdetails.aspx?ln=1069&aid=525

 

[Catfish]

A tidbit of bad luck after the purchase.....the car has Fenton Gyro wheels.... Anyway, the tires that the car was purchased with had a slight rub making it hard to push it around the shop so the new owner bought some slightly smaller slicks and took them to a local tire shop....they broke one of the wheels!!! Now he is searching for another Fenton wheel......

 

[commando1]

A tidbit of bad luck after the purchase.....the car has Fenton Gyro wheels.... Anyway, the tires that the car was purchased with had a slight rub making it hard to push it around the shop so the new owner bought some slightly smaller slicks and took them to a local tire shop....they broke one of the wheels!!! Now he is searching for another Fenton wheel......

$99,000.00 car and the tires rubbed..........
So what's he going to do with it?

 

[Catfish]

Just park it in his garage. I thought it odd also that there was a tire rub.....that is also second hand info from the body man, not the current owner.

 

[flyinbrick68]

Beautiful car no doubt about it hands down. Would it be sacrilegious to make my fury a six pac clone with some slicks?

 

[commando1]

Just park it in his garage.

70 Kugerands can sit in the garage too and still leave room for a gorgeous C-body.....

 

[Big_John]

I remember reading about it in Super Stock Magazine back in the seventies. They had a series of articles about racing the car.

Lot's of good history on that one.

 

[Catfish]

70 Kugerands can sit in the garage too and still leave room for a gorgeous C-body.....

I know he had a RR when he was young, not sure if it was an A12 or not. But if he is reliving his past, it would suck to have a garage queen you can't drive.

 

[Catfish]

70 Kugerands can sit in the garage too and still leave room for a gorgeous C-body.....

I might be wrong, but I think this is the only Vintage car in his shop and the only Mopar. They have a dozen modern Chevy vehicles. Lingenfelter camaros and Vettes mostly. His shop is across the street from my fathers house. Next time I'm down there I am going to see if he will let me look at the RR.

 

[tallhair]

They packed the biggest tires they could get under them for contact patch and folded in the inner wheel well pinch weld seam to get a little more. They weren't going cruising to the piggly wiggly with it.