Hi have larry morgans rod shop challenger 73 .! Is it anyone ho have any original photos of this car when it was running..?? tanks Robert

Robert, did your Challenger used to be in Utah at one time ?? Thanks, Reed in Neb. / 308-380-8630

Hi! i dont now i bye the car from new york (lacona) maybe the car whas in Utah to!i dont now

Can you talk to the previous owner and ask him where he got the car ?? - Reed in Neb.

Yes i can think i can do that..whay do you wanna now that!

here is a pictures on the car ho it looks today..

Actually, there were two Challengers. Larry or the writer might have shortened the story, but here is the whole story.

The Fink Brothers (of SS/DA fame) decided to run a SS/KA Challenger as part of their Rod Shop deal, so a 74 Challenger was purchased and made into a race car, and cosmetic changes were made to convert it to a 73 so they could run the more competitive (not sure that is really true) 340. They only ran the car for a short time (anyone have any photos?), and then gave it up to run the SS/EA 64 Dodge 330.

Dave Boertman then used the car a few times, but liked his 383 Challenger better so the 340 car was put in the back of the shop. When Larry Morgan started racing it, the Rod Shop had really closed most of its racing operations, and Jim Thompson and Bruce Miehls were running the race engine shop building engines for customers. They put Larry in the car as a way of advertising to the local racers that the Rod Shop was still in business building motors for customers.

Larry ran the car for a few years (78, 79 and 80) and won just about every bracket race there was to win in the Ohio area with it. He might also have run it in SS/LA (the rules had changed and the car ran a lower class). In early 81, I ended up getting this car as part of a trade deal I did with the Rod Shop. I raced the car for a couple of years, won just about every bracket race around here for a couple of years (it was a "lucky" car), and then sold it.

Now, here is the story of the second Challenger, the one in your photo. Larry was so heart broken to have lost his ride that he build a second Challenger. He must have called me 20 times asking for photos, part numbers and dimensions on parts of the car so he could duplicate it. Larry built it for Super Pro bracket racing only, as far as I know. I'm pretty sure it never had a SS/LA legal motor in it.

This second Challenger was a great winner, too, and one reason Larry was later tapped on the shoulder to drive the 68 Dart and later the Fiero for the Rod Shop.

So, if you really have the one in the photo with Larry's name on it, you likely have the second car. I have attached a photo of the first Challenger as it arrived from the Rod Shop.

Hope that helps,

Mark

Does this car have a VIN?

Thanks for the history ! my car whas light blue under the vinyl top and under old color!

Tanks Robert

vin number is JH23H3B355246

. Why would anyone have ever "installed" a vinyl top on car #1

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Sometime in the 60s Richard Petty experimented with a vinyl top,using the theory that the textured top would create small vortices over the car to help hold it down at speed. The idea didn't work at all & was quickly abandoned. Someone might have thought they could do it better than the pros & tried it. Remember, back then computers weren't all that prevelant & computer modeling almost non-existant, so they had to do real-world testing for some of these theories....

more pictures

give me more history abaut this car ? and photos !
Thanks

check this ! pictures..have talk to larry morgan and he say he only sign cars he recognize! that is his old car..the owner before me have met larry morgan and get the photo signed !

Thanks Robert