Talk about weird timing. Just got off the phone with an old friend from work who grew up in Stone Mountain and knew the place I was thinking of. It was Kinnett Auto Parts. Unless Jim Kinnett had 2 identical Challengers, the classracer thread is not correct in the ownership chain. I went with my friend to look at it initially at the original owners house in Lawrenceville, Ga. sometime in '77, IIRC. We drove up in a '70 Torino GT w/ a 429 that my friend bought from his uncle (original owner). Baby blue, bench seat, auto on the column. Stock as the day it rolled off the line but that car was fast. Challenger was sitting in the driveway with 2 flat tires and 1 carb gone (owner robbed it and put it on his Blazer). Owner noticed the Torino and wanted a ride. Wound up trading the Challenger even for the Torino. When we went back the next evening with a flat bed, the owner mentioned Barnett had built the engine at about 6k miles. He also started hauling parts out of his 2 car garage which included a complete Hilborn injector setup and a Judson magneto. Reggie got it running and at one point had the injectors on it. He said they fit perfectly through the shaker hole but I never saw it with that setup. Spring of '78 he traded it to Kinnett for a '69 427, 4 spd. 'vette convertible. Story I got was he wanted the engine for his race car. The friend I just talked to said Kinnett was sponsored by Mopar in Super Stock and maybe Pro Stock but may have gotten away from sponsorship at that time. Have no idea if Reggie ever titled it in his name but know for a fact he was the 2nd owner and Kinnett was the 3rd.
Anyway, nice to know it survived as it was a nice car. Thanks for the help.


Tim