That 69 charger rt is beautiful .... have seen before .....great guy named Harlan owns it ....very nicely restored car
Hey, I know that dude! (Or at least I did back in the 80's, when I belonged to NeHOA)
The story I've posted on here in the past involves the GREAT favor he did for me at a Chicopee NeHOA meet
way back then....
Short version was my '68 Super Bee (that I had just bought) was overheating like crazy on the drive up from
northern VA to the meet (we drove at night and i STILL got caught at the backup at GW Bridge in NYC at
daybreak - so I cut through the pylons and took the lower level to get OUTTA there!)
By the time I got to Chicopee, I was young, damn near broke and had a new (to me) car trying to melt down.
In the parking lot of the host motel that evening, I set about trying to diagnose the problem with the cooling system....
Ray the Canadian member walks up to me, puts his hand in the center of the radiator (the car was running) and says "it's clogged up Ed - and it's for a small block".
(The car had a 440 6bbl in it).
Great. A bazillion miles from home, in need of a radiator to get home, none to be found and damn near broke!
Then someone makes a call to Harlan....and the next thing you know, there he is with a
BRAND NEW hemi 26" radiator - and he's handing it to me!
I stammered out how I couldn't afford it and he says "did I ask you to?"
Holy ****....
I asked how I could ever repay him for this great favor and he says point blank "send it back to me when you get home - CLEAN. Use the box it came in, pack it right."
Now, keep in mind, I'd never met the man - he was well known even then as the Hemi guru in that neck of the woods and had a shop, but I was a newer member (one of the "Virginia Boys" they called us) and he had NO reason to trust me at all....
....but he did.
I enjoyed the rest of the holiday weekend with the rest of the club, then set out for home Monday - and you can bet your *** the moment I got back home, the radiator was carefully removed, cleaned and boxed up - then shipped back to him the next morning.
It was one of the first exposures to me of how Mopar guys are truly DIFFERENT than other car guys - and I've never forgotten it.