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    Which company is best at rebuilding and or selling door hinges? 1973 Dodge Coronet sedan.

    Trying to replace my drivers door lower hinge and need a totally new or rebuilt one.
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    Has anyone compared the top aluminum radiators for Mopars?

    Are we comparing Apples to Oranges to rotten Apples here without considering that every engine has its issues when it comes to their blocks and heads clean inner bowels, compression, spark plug choices, timing, fan types either electric or manual, shrouds, frontal grill openings, etc? Maybe a...
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    The Elephant In The Room: unloading the load from a B-body.

    This GOAT might be one of the 6ix special thin gauge entire body cars that slipped out the back door for Royal.
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    The Elephant In The Room: unloading the load from a B-body.

    It was a thin gauge stainless piece that wasn't fairing well under crash to earth wheel stands. The '65 10/15 cars were much too light at 2800 to 3000 Lbs each. That with a hungry Hemi made for some frequent flyer miles. I mean, a factory full gauge steel unit would have cracked and bent...
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    The Elephant In The Room: unloading the load from a B-body.

    One of the '65's slipped through with an aluminum dash. I think it was the "Color Me Gone" car. The front fenders were modified, but not to the extent of the 10/15 cars of course. Y'all should see the factory memo for the '64 2% cars, it is madness and confusing all at once.
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    The Elephant In The Room: unloading the load from a B-body.

    Some cars have gone quicker with added weight in the right places. It's all science.
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    GLSSA weekend

    Hey DVW, don't you owe me some money? LOL
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    The Elephant In The Room: unloading the load from a B-body.

    I think the over grown Ford style teardrop scoop looks great on that car.
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    The Elephant In The Room: unloading the load from a B-body.

    Yes, I did mention the aluminum dash frames. I actually got to see one of them once at The Nationals in the early 90's. There were allegedly only four to eight of them made for the 2% FX cars of '64 and '65. The first four aluminum dash frames were installed at various time points on the '64 2%...
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    The Elephant In The Room: unloading the load from a B-body.

    There were two of them and Willie was getting blessed by someone at Chrysler with some parts and maybe engines. Kind of a west Coast version of Detroit's "Silver Bullet" I knew Willie well enough to talk shop with him several times over the years. He also told me that the NYC street racing...
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    The Elephant In The Room: unloading the load from a B-body.

    Say whhhattt? Check out the film or just google "opening scene in "Two Lane Black Top" 4 speed wing car street racing, I believe it's a Daytona.
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    The Elephant In The Room: unloading the load from a B-body.

    Yes, you're correct for the NASCAR programs, but it was for the drag versions that they thought were going to take flight after the publicity campaigns with Sox and Martins on the national circuit tracks and strangely, most probably Big Willie on the back streets of LA. Big Willie allegedly...
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    The Elephant In The Room: unloading the load from a B-body.

    Not surprised by The Old Chrysler companies mad scientist's doing the work during the witching hours.
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    The Elephant In The Room: unloading the load from a B-body.

    I saw that Chevy run for many years at my now defunct local track. It was consistently a tough cookie. Probably had its own Felix The Cat bag of tricks as well.
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    The Elephant In The Room: unloading the load from a B-body.

    Rumor has it that Daytona and Super bird aluminum noses were once produced, but somehow not applied onto the cars themselves. Funny, how weight can be both an ill factor in most cases and beneficial in others. Case in point is wheelbase. Wheel base is the most overlooked in most discussions...
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