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anyone got pictures of dorothy davis' wild wild west 64 dodge hemi car.
she sure could drive.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WICf2lloj0&feature=related

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Don't know how prochargeds photo from the 70's proves anything(show me that car new in the 60's-very cool car by the way). But here's a neat photo found somewhere on the net. Maybe we can have Jim Schild and Galen verify what motor is in this car.

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very cool pic. i believe that may be the 2% car mike guffy now owns? if in fact it is my fathers car was built the same day as mikes dodge was

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another big thing that is looked over or forgotten very often is that not ALL 64 HEMI cars had aluminum noses or doors. that video of marvins car, if i remember correctly was an all steel car (except maybe the scoop)

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This was at the Hemi Reunion, after Bob Fredrick owned it the story goes that Benny Bertock found it in a barn with no glass and no motor. He bought the car for $900.00. He raced it at Quaker City for years under the Buckeye Brawler name. He quit racing it in the mid 80's after deciding that it was too valuable to have anything happen to it, he then ended up selling it a few years after that. I grew up in the same town as Bertock's and they had a barn full of Hemi cars. Dad bought his 65 Coronet off of them. I never knew who bought it until we were at the Reunion.

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The car was raced as the Hustlin' Hemi by Bertok. I have a picture of when Snyder bought it somewhere at home. It was blue/silver with a red interior.

The Buckeye Brawler was a red/black '65 Plymouth hardtop.

Ben Bertok also bought Carlon Hine's original Chargin' Hemi. That car was destroyed in a freak accident at Quaker when Ben was staging the car, The guy behind him started doing a burnout and the car let go running into the Charger.

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The Buckeye Brawler still is red and black and is sitting in my older brother's trailer. We had found out a couple of years ago a lot of the cars history from one of the past owners, Jack Aekin (spelling?) He actually painted the car red and named it the Buckeye Brawler in the winter of 75-6. The black was later added. The car before that was Bullet Bob Reed's Locomotion. Not an original hemi car, but it had been converted in the late 60's to a hemi 4 speed and held some kind of ahra record (I think that is the right sanctioning body).

My brother was told that the guy who wrecked into Ben's Chargin hemi actually bought the Buckeye Brawler and gave it to Ben. He was also told that he (Ben)didn't like the car and it didn't work as well as his old car and was never really pleased with it. Any one know how to get ahold of Ben Bertok? Maybe my brother or I could verify this. We have kind of enjoyed hearing all the tails of this car. Thanks, John

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Yes, you are right... I remember Ben Sr. telling us that they guy who wrecked into Benny bought him the Brawler. And yes, I remember Benny saying that he didn't care for the car.

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Not to steal your thread, but I had a friend in Painesville, Ohio, named Ron Tarczy who passed away in 1992. A few years (maybe less) before he died, he sold his A990 65 Belvedere (minus motor). It was white and red, and had a funny car cage in it. Does anyone know where this car is today?

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Don't know how prochargeds photo from the 70's proves anything(show me that car new in the 60's-very cool car by the way). But here's a neat photo found somewhere on the net. Maybe we can have Jim Schild and Galen verify what motor is in this car.

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So if the 2% cars were shipped as Max Wedge cars did they have the aluminum doors like the A864 cars or just the aluminum front end like a Max Wedge?

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The picture of the 64 Ramcharger Dodge clearly has the 2% wheelbase modifications but it has a wing glass, A864 grille mods and a Max Wedge scoop. I am not trying to stir the pot here. Just trying to provoke a discussion that will possibly shed some light on the evolution of these cars.

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I will get interesting,especially when it its noticed that many 63s had 64 front clips and many 64s had 65 front clips.And the "beat goes on" I recently found an old article on my 64/65 AFX(Soul Shaker/Godfather)That was so full of BS.Fact be told Bob Morrision and myself(First owners and builders)can't seperate fact from fiction.

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So if the 2% cars were shipped aMax Wedge cars did they have the aluminum doors like the A864 cars or just the aluminum front end like a Max Wedge?

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The AFX or 2% cars had aluminum doors along with the front ends. Bill Stiles has told me the Strickler car was raced s with the max wedge very early on before being swapped over to Hemi. The way you can tell the aluminum doors on the AFX cars was no wing vent windows. The aluminum doors ended up on the Strickler SS Hemi car when the AFX car was sold to George Whalen. The car became the Rebel with steel doors....

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