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Re: Mopar Nats- The Early Days, Pics and Stories 1981-1984
[Re: WingedSixBBL]
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Me, 1981 Nats. The plaque on display under the hood is a large version of the dash plaque. Each of the participating clubs received one. I have it hanging on the wall in the room I am now. OF course we drove the car to the meet, almost 400 miles each way. Probably has just about 20k on it at the time. Check out the CB antenna on the trunk.
Doug, I've noticed that you've outgrown the need for a comb? 
I have 4 very full albums of early nat's pix - now I need to go buy a scanner to upload them.
Please do!!! The scanner that I use most often now is part of a Kodak "All-In-One" ESP 3250 scanner/copier/printer that I bought at Walmart for $89.00, and the ink cartridges are about half the cost of most brands. Not the best home use equipment, but more than good enough at a low cost.
Allen
Here is the engine in the R/T Convert...
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Re: Mopar Nats- The Early Days, Pics and Stories 1981-1984
[Re: WingedSixBBL]
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08/19/10 01:04 PM
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Aero426
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Doug, I've noticed that you've outgrown the need for a comb?
Yes, I have changed, but the car has done a whole lot better than me through the years. 
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Re: Mopar Nats- The Early Days, Pics and Stories 1981-1984
[Re: Speeddemon]
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08/19/10 01:12 PM
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Keep the pictures rolling! Very cool to see as I would have been 3 years old in 81.
Thanks...this is the last old scan picture that I found. I will scan some more in later...
Here is the Hemi R/T Convert out at the race track. In the background are the two San Antonio Hemi Cars we drove up in and Kevin's Hemi `Cuda...
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Re: Mopar Nats- The Early Days, Pics and Stories 1981-1984
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08/19/10 08:41 PM
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What I find hard to grasp is bringing a '71 Cuda to the '81 Mopar Nats would be like bringing a 2000 model today.
Yep, most participants drove their cars to the meet, and most of the trailered ones where on open trailers. That all changed quickly during the first great run-up in Mopar musclecar prices in the mid to late 1980s...
Tonight I will post some pictures from the trip itself, as well as the hotel to track to hotel drives during the meet. Also, sorry for the large file sizes of the pictures that I am posting. They are 850 x 1100 pixels for decent borderless printing on 8.5 inch by 11 inch photo paper on an inkjet or laser printer. Also, the original prints have developed a bleached out or tinted look, so after scanning the image, I crop and run several enhancements on them... which don't always work well on some pictures.
Attached is a before & after example of a scanned picture.
Allen
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Re: Mopar Nats- The Early Days, Pics and Stories 1981-1984
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08/19/10 09:58 PM
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Awesome pictures! Thanks for the history lesson too.
Mike
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Re: Mopar Nats- The Early Days, Pics and Stories 1981-1984
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08/19/10 10:01 PM
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XS29 do you have any pictures at the drag strip in Milan or St.Louis. That is were my car spent all its time. At the Chrysler Proving Grounds I just left it on the trailer.
As P1970 said, those were the days when paint dabs did not matter and having fun did.
1971 HEMI E BODY REGISTRY
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