:popcrn: Thursday morning we loaded up the family in the expedition and headed out on a 9 hour road trip to indy
about 4 hours out we met up with alan (41 husk) just past st louis
:popcrn: thursday evening we went out to danny's place for food and friendship . We got a little lost on the way but made our way back to his house
wayne perkins spoiler II , Rick edwards original owner green bird , dannys 500 and troys daytona
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:popcrn: rick following us back in the dark
:popcrn: early friday morning headed to the track
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:popcrn: the last two photos you can see the front end difference from a standard w nose cyclone spoiler and a nascar nose spoiler II
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:popcrn: the 7 a real race car
:drool5:the number 34 a real race car ,. now owned by uncle milton :icon_smile_big:
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very cool canadian bird , he drove down from alberta very retro with murals and all chromed out , nice to see one not stock and driven
he was having clutch issues hope he got them resolved to drive home
:drool5: where as some love the ones completely stock , I like to see the one that are alittle different :icon_smile_big:
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:popcrn: bob's 68 charger all the way over from the west coast :2thumbs:
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:drool5: the f6 green daytona from south bend In , I bought my beat up real daytona fenders from him that are going on my clone :2thumbs:
:drool5: the marty robbins 5.7 hemi :drool5: :drool5: :drool5:
:drool5: doug and carols B5 car freshly restored , and i mean fresh :smilielol:
:drool5: yellow bird no vinyl top , I really liked the blue interior of the gurney cyclone spoilers , wings on a curve :D
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:popcrn:dual latches ????? were they at one time entertained ?
:drool5: why the second hole , that covered over on a factory latch tray ??? notice the correct superbird latch and a more curved second one on the chromed dual set up
:popcrn: randy and wanda the rowdy wisconsins robbing an armored car :D check out that FRO
Maybe it should be the rowdy kansas with all the trouble i caused at the hotel and the ESPN reporter yelling at me out the window :shruggy:
:popcrn:now i got in on the action and stole some money
:2thumbs: that was all for the track on friday out the tunnel
:popcrn: I got your back troy , just like in the article ;D :icon_smile_big:
Mug N bun friday night for dinner , it was sprinkling a little so the top went up on the birdible
:popcrn: :popcrn: special thanks to sherry our cruise director :icon_smile_big: for finding the mug n bun and pointing us that way
I was bummed to hear that we left just seconds before kyle petty and rutledge wood showed up
:popcrn: i bought a beat up real daytona nose cone from rick edwards two years ago , but he has been storing it for me :D
well his son rick bought it up this weekend and i was able to get it . My special thanks to larry peterson for draggin it home for me . Larry a ford guy had to suffer with my dodge nose sitting in front of his taladega in his enclosed trailer .
:popcrn: doug replacing his bad break caliper , with his little assistant scott helping :smilielol: :smilielol:
thats it for all the friday activities
:drool5: :2thumbs: Thanks looks like fun.. :yesnod:
Thanks for the pictures!!!! It was great time!
:coolgleamA: good lot of pictures & good right up ! looks like a awesome adventure :yesnod:
thanks for posting Stuart :yesnod: :cheers: :2thumbs:
Will post Saturdays activities soon
:drool5: very first charger 500 built on a 69 model body
has my polara wheel covers I wanna use on my 500 :drool5: :drool5: :drool5: :drool5: :drool5: :drool5:
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:popcrn: I really love that 61 superbird race car clone :drool5: :drool5: :drool5: I would put a different paint scheme on it but i love this car :yesnod: :drool5: :drool5: :drool5: :drool5:
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the speedway museum
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we misssed kyle petty and rutledge wood at the mug n bun but we got luck and saturday they were filming there tv show for speed
30 minutes you will never get back , in the museum
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:drool5:all the different mercury and ford aero cars in one place , all three color talladegas & nascar and w(street) nose mercury's very cool
:drool5: thats all of my saturday photos
Great photos and looks like a great time was had by all!
I especially like the # 7 car and the # 61 Tribute bird...did you take any interior shots of that car Stuart?
more awesome pictures !! thanks for posting :cheers: :2thumbs:
Thaks so much for posting those pictures. For those of us who live a long way from these activities, these are sometimes the best we get. With what I do for a living it will be at least 10 years until I can participate in some of these activities. :'(
Stuart...unless I missed the reply...the 'Birds did not have a second hole in the latch tray like that Daytona did...the 'Birds had a hood spring that rested against that "cover".....the Daytonas did not have a spring
Thanks for the pictures Stuart!!!! We just got home a couple of hours ago. 4,368 miles total........ :eek2:
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:drool5: why the second hole , that covered over on a factory latch tray ??? notice the correct superbird latch and a more curved second one on the chromed dual set up
The Superbird with the 2 holes and latches is obviously custom by the owner,...Stock Superbird trays do have 2 holes, but one plated over, this reason is because the Superbird latch tray is originally a Daytona tray, for the bird, the vendor supplying the latch trays, merely used the Daytona tray, turned it 180 degrees, lopped off the extended ends on the front of the Daytona tray, drilled a few extra holes, created a NEW safety latch hole for the Plymouth latch location, and plated over the 2nd hole, being no longer needed,...so basically the Bird tray is a Tona tray going down the road backwards :nana:
Mike
thanks Mike....you said it better than I could think it
this "getting old" thing really sucks
Wow, excellent trip. A lot of historic cars assembled there
Thanks for posting up the pics Stuart :2thumbs:
Your definitely more patient than I am Stuart. I got lazy and just posted my pics to facebook. I was wondering how you mananged to get a picture of the first HEMI 500 without me being around the car as I think I spent 75% of the weekend within a few step of that car. But then I saw my ugly mug in the background of the pictures. I love that car.
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Your definitely more patient than I am Stuart. I got lazy and just posted my pics to facebook. I was wondering how you mananged to get a picture of the first HEMI 500 without me being around the car as I think I spent 75% of the weekend within a few step of that car. But then I saw my ugly mug in the background of the pictures. I love that car.
me too :yesnod: :yesnod: :yesnod: :yesnod: my cars not a hemi but it will have that look if i ever get those wheel covers from petty bird :icon_smile_big:
:popcrn: sunday pictures race day fewer cars showed back up sunday , lots more spectators
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:popcrn: we had great free seats in turn two for the race
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:drool5: 22 AND 2 STARTED OUT THE RACE IN VERY GOOD POSITIONS , TOO BAD THEY DIDNT FINISH THAT WAY
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:popcrn: danny and troys backs :icon_smile_big:
:popcrn: sometimes even your friends who drive fords have to wear a mopar hat :nana: :smilielol:
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:drool5: rick edwards in the lower picture
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:drool5: picture of our stands from the infield of the track
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:drool5: a ton of security and police on race day
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:drool5: lots of trailers still there sunday evening
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:drool5: we loaded up sunday night for our long trek home monday , we left very early monday morning
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:drool5: thats it , what a great experience and wonderful family outing . It was great to make new friends and see all my old wing car buddys again . :2thumbs:
more good pictures to look at :yesnod: thanks for sharing your adventure Stuart :yesnod: :cheers: :2thumbs:
Thanks Stuart!! That was a great trip and an experience that our grandson will never forget... Bob
Looks like a great Time Stu... :cheers: