nothingbutdarts
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As the title says, I was wondering if there still is a National HEMI Owners club/sight? I see there is a North East HEMI owners but there used to be a NHOA back a few years ago (1980's.)
Thanks!
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Is there still a National HEMI owners Assn. or a registry?
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Seemed one of the last Presidents it was all about him. Pete Haldimen was a good President of NHOA, met him at a NeHOA meet.
walter funkhouser
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check Chrysler power web site
nothingbutdarts
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Thank You!
68HemiRR
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I was a member of the NHOA back in the late 70's with my 68 Hemi Roadrunner. Roland Osborne was president back then. If I'm not mistaken he's the one who started the NHOA.
And Jack Sharky ended it for me. To much self promotion.
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nothingbutdarts
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Wow, has Roland passed? A few years ago I purchased a set of TTi headers from him thru Chrysler Power.
theman440
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Yes Roland passed a couple years ago from brain cancer. I've been told form a reliable source that the NHOA is No- Mas.
68HemiRR
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I'm very sorry to learn that Roland passed. I didn't know him personally, but I did speak with him on the phone several times when I was a NHOA member back in the 70's. RIP Roland.
theman440
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I've known him since I was a kid since about 1983/84. My dad, Dave Dudgeon, was a contributor to Chrysler Power Magazine for many years. He helped Roland to develop the 444 stroker short blocks they sold thru CPPA back in the day. He also was the crew chief (so to speak) on the CPPA Dart that was used to test their speed equipment that they sold. I spent a lot of time around the magazine headquarters back in the 80's. He developed the cancer and was gone a year later, very sad. My son worked with Roland a few times at his CP magazine booths at various events. My son took it pretty hard also. Roland was good guy and great motivator. One thing I have learned thru the years about Roland was that people loved him or hated him.
RIP Roland.
RIP Roland.
I knew Roland personally (but not well). Sorry to hear that he passed away.
Back in the day I was the regional director for the Mopar Muscle Club for Canada. As the MMC was a spin off of the NHOA we were kind of like the poor country cousins. I remember Chris Grinius' (she was the president of MMC) husband (his name is eluding me) referring to "Roland Osborne the 3rd" as if he was a lord or something - it was his opinion that he thought Roland's opinion was that owning a hemi car back then made you something tantamount to being a royal! We had a few laughs about that.
But give Roland credit: he really got the ball rolling when these cars really weren't very old. I'm not exactly sure when the NHOA got its start, probably something like 1978 or so. The last hemi car had rolled off the factory line only 7 years before. We were all young guys then.
I sometimes wonder if the 20 - 30 year old guys out there now are already reminiscing about the "good old days" of the horsepower wars started in the 2000's like we did in the late '70's (I bought my Superbird in the fall of 1979 and that's what got me started). Maybe not, because the horsepower wars are even better today than they were 10 or 20 years ago, and much better than 50 years ago.
Chris's last name at that time was Neve, and her husband was Ken Neve, if my memory is correct. I believe they ended up divorced and he was possibly accused of unscrupulous handling of the club funds? That all happened after I wasn't a member anymore, so my knowledge of that is sketchy.
ynst
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I used to belong years ago but it wasn't a late hemi that qualified me for membership. I had and still drive a hemi powered, channeled, '34 Ford sedan. Met Roland once, talked to him on the phone a couple of times.
Also belonged to Northeast Hemi Owners Assn but they were so disorganized I stopped following them. The last meet I went to was in western Mass, Agawam, I think, and that hadda be thirty or so years ago.
Also belonged to Northeast Hemi Owners Assn but they were so disorganized I stopped following them. The last meet I went to was in western Mass, Agawam, I think, and that hadda be thirty or so years ago.
ynst
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I just re-joined NEHOA
Think my first NeHOA meet was Agawan 1980? Went to many until 99 but since only if they're day trips.
Sharp Rod yours?
ynst
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Built it in '64. Was painted in Agawam in '72. Had to re-paint it (everything but the ribbons and caricatures) after blowing a tire on the way home from Louisville, KN outside Hershey, PA in 2008 and taking out the right quarter. Ya can't "blend" Kandy Tangerine very easily. It's easier to start over.
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