vintage chromoly
Well-Known Member
Hello all.
Eight years ago I bought a 68 coronet RT as a gift to myself for making it 40 years on this planet.
During the buying process, I looked at 20 or so cars all over the east coast. Ironically, I found the RT 35 miles from my house. One of the cool things about the car, is that I have provenance back to day 1. I have the original bill of sale, owners manual and a few other docs. I’m the 4th owner. I know owners 2 and 3 and have the story on owner 1.
The original owner was a barber in Lakewood Ohio. His name was Heinz Wink. The car was bought in Cleveland at a spitzer dodge dealer that is still there today. He bought it as a drag car, and as such it has minimal options. Power steering is about it.
The car has 42,000 original miles on it as it was retired from racing and stowed in 1972. The 2nd owner found it in 1991. The car had 4.10:1 gears, fenderwell headers, aftermarket carb and slicks when found. The original engine was in the garage with the car.
Anyhow, when I bought it from owner 3, he told me who owner 2 was. I ran into owner 2 at a car show and he told me all the details about finding and fixing up the car (it was an above average amateur “restoration” to reverse the drag racing mods).
In talking with him, he mentioned that he had the original back glass from the car in his barn. When they fixed the car up, they used a clean donor car for the inner fender repairs (fenderwell headers) and they used the back glass from the donor car because the original glass has a bunch or track decals on it and the donor glass was super nice.
I bought the glass from him and hung it in my barn as tribute to the car’s roots. There are class win decals from Norwalk and dragway 42 and one from Thompson.
Here are a few pics:
Eight years ago I bought a 68 coronet RT as a gift to myself for making it 40 years on this planet.
During the buying process, I looked at 20 or so cars all over the east coast. Ironically, I found the RT 35 miles from my house. One of the cool things about the car, is that I have provenance back to day 1. I have the original bill of sale, owners manual and a few other docs. I’m the 4th owner. I know owners 2 and 3 and have the story on owner 1.
The original owner was a barber in Lakewood Ohio. His name was Heinz Wink. The car was bought in Cleveland at a spitzer dodge dealer that is still there today. He bought it as a drag car, and as such it has minimal options. Power steering is about it.
The car has 42,000 original miles on it as it was retired from racing and stowed in 1972. The 2nd owner found it in 1991. The car had 4.10:1 gears, fenderwell headers, aftermarket carb and slicks when found. The original engine was in the garage with the car.
Anyhow, when I bought it from owner 3, he told me who owner 2 was. I ran into owner 2 at a car show and he told me all the details about finding and fixing up the car (it was an above average amateur “restoration” to reverse the drag racing mods).
In talking with him, he mentioned that he had the original back glass from the car in his barn. When they fixed the car up, they used a clean donor car for the inner fender repairs (fenderwell headers) and they used the back glass from the donor car because the original glass has a bunch or track decals on it and the donor glass was super nice.
I bought the glass from him and hung it in my barn as tribute to the car’s roots. There are class win decals from Norwalk and dragway 42 and one from Thompson.
Here are a few pics:
