28 On the Cover ROAD RUMBLER---IF YOU FANCY messing with other drivers on the road, take our advice, this is one badass beeper you wanna stay away from, far away. Riding on a Viper chassis and packing an 1100+ HP blown 392 Hemi, this mean green machine is plenty aggressive, and so is the driver. A lethal combination if there ever was one.
COOL MOPES
14 MUSCLE MELODY IN THE KEY OF C---Even if you're tone-deaf, you'll hear the music of this Reference Restoration one-of-one 1971 Plymouth Sport Fury GT with the super-rare sunroof option. This isn't one of those "I like it, I'll take it ~ stories that bore you to tears. No, this is one of those "my God, how did they do that kind of stories that will move you to tears. So have the Kleenex ready. Maybe grab an extra box or two while you're at it.
38 LORD DF THE RING---World Champion wrestler Bill Goldberg is one dude you don 't wanna mess with-in the ring, on the supermarket checkout line or on the road. Big Bad Bill's worked 1000+ HP Hellcat is just the right amount of muscle to blow just about anyone into the weeds. Here's what's in his ride plus he lets his hair down {oops! no hair) for an MA exclusive insight, plus a short tussle with Gromer just to keep in shape.
48-THE WHITE KNIGHT---In the spring of '69, Dodge had a cool marketing gimmick called the "White Hat Special." You got a bunch of options included in the base price of the car as you dreamed of hugging Joan Parker, the cute Dodge girl who would personally come to your house to hug and give you a cup of coffee. Anyhow, check out this '69 Charger RIT
White Hatter that the owner bought in 2000 pieces and put together in a rubber room after he went nuts trying to figure it all out. A must-read if you like green cars.
58 BEDTIME STORY---Yesss! The 2-door Charger is back! And It gives more and less! More, in that you get a pickup bed which you can't get even get from the factory no matter how much you plead and beg. Less, in that you don't get a back seat which eliminates the annoyance of backseat drivers. It's an E-Z conversion as you'll see in the article, and it won't break
the bank. You'll Jove it.
68 DART THROB---We love to show how Mo'fans take a bag of rust particles and a VIN tag and spend half their life building a 1Cl00-point Hemicuda using just Ebooger's tech articles and a Craftsman socket set. Then there are the other Mo'fans who just shell out the bucks to the builder's widow because the job killed hubby as he was tightening the last fastener. So, if you're this kind of Mo'fan, this '64 Dart with a 6-pack small block is for you. Probably the sweetest ride in this entire issue.
78 MAXIMUM IMPACT---The '69 M-code 'Cuda was the only early A-body Plymouth with a factory installed 440. Here's how our feature car was brought back from the dead plus some cool history revealing how Cliff Gromer ran a new one on the strip along with Joe Oldham and the crew from CARS magazine back in the day for a road test article. No punches pulled on that one.
HOT TECH
42 DYND-MIGHT---Where the rubber meets the rollers as our tech editor puts it so creatively. Here's an in-depth look at automobile dynamometers and a true understanding of the numbers they generate. If you think "horsepower is just horsepower", think again. Delving into the history and development of dynos from Roman chariot times to the present, Dr. Ebooger pulls no punches in this technical dissertation of one of the more significant tools (next to the spark plug wrench) in autodom.
64 STICK IT TO ME---Remember when you were a kid with that bottle of glue with the rubber tip and you glued stuff into a scrapbook, and you glued your fingers together and the table and the chair and your mother? Well, relive those thrilling days of yesteryear with our "stick it to me" how-to on applying vinyl stripes, billboards and stuff onto your Mope, or in a scrapbook or on your mother.
LUKEWARM FEATURES
20 VALLEY OF THE SUN---Did you miss the Lebanon Valley Mopar show? Too bad. But never fear, Mopar Action has you covered by bringing you (in color yet) all the excitement, thrills and chills and Mopars even of this mega-happening in more pages than it takes to tell. And all in the comfort of your own home. Just don't miss thr next one because we might not be so generous.
34 TESTING 1-2-3- AND OH, ODY(COTT)!---Here's another abridged excerpt from our Zookeeper's upcoming CarTech book on the Motown Missile (buy my book please!). 'Course, you can always cut out this article and paste it with all the other installments and have your own abridged edition of the book and save the $2.95. In this 2nd installment on 1972, you'll find never before seen photos and words on winning big at Gainesville and insight into the team's developmental programs. It's history in the re-making, and Zoo is taking offers on the movie rights.
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54 I LEFT MY HEART IN SAN FRANCISCO---and my spleen in Poughkeepsie. Eberg and Dowell may have left body parts all across the United States in their trek from NY to San
Fran, but that didn't stop them from coming up with this gem of a conclusion on reaching their primary destination (alternate was Puerto Rico) and bidding a fond and tearful adieu to their trusty beeper for its voyage to the land of Oz. You may want to skip this if you get overly emotional.
72 PUCKER UP---No, we're not talking about taking a corner way over your head (that's another pucker story). We're talkin' money here-big money-more than a couple hundred dollars if you can believe it. We're talkin' Mopars at the Mecum Auction in Kissimmee, Florida that went down to a sellout crowd. Witness jaw-dropping Mopes changing hands for colossal coin. See hundred dollar bills curl up and smoke. Hear Gold Cards scream for mercy as they are slammed through the credit machines. All in all, some cool rides here.
TREADMILL READING
4 EDITOR'S NOTES
6 ZOO KEEPER'S DIARY
8 CREC'S CORNER
10 TECH TOPICS
12 RESTO TOPICS
85 MOPAR OR NOCAR
86 COOL STUFF
93 ADVERTISERS INDEX
95 BLAST FROM THE PAST
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