A few from the mid 70s. Top is a factory FC7 440 Six Pack R/T. Bottom is a 440 4 speed. Converted to a Hemi 4 speed.

This was the era when from the pages of Hot Rod you could buy Formula 1 Superstock N50x15 white letter tires for like $60 each!!!!!!!

I'm guessing it must have just been a 340 six pack in this picture since the hood isn't cut and before he added the blower. The amount of blown cars were insane and caused a lot of guys to upgrade. Heck I was running a 13.1 590 cammed .030 over aluminum rod 440 and I wasn't even close to the fastest cars. I remember Monty thought his car was fast when he came and was shocked how bad he was getting beat. That was the end of that car and the start to his GTX. There was a monster hemi out of Detroit in an old sedan that was insane. The first year the cops didn't have a clue and every street and parking lots were a drag strip. Crowds in the street were stopping cars and pouring bleach in the streets as well as some that had their garden hose out wetting the street. By the third year they had enough and had police everywhere and fire trucks spaying down the crowds. What a great experience.

Funny he and I both had FC 7 V code ebodys.

And you took home $90 a week.

Monte RIP quote. 1982 street machine. Car had been in the 9's by then. Did well until I came up against a 64 Max wedge Plymouth out of Detroit ...he smoked my ass and I was pretty fast. He was damn fast.

Rat Patrol !

More Indy SMN Again, these are pictures of a photo album put together by an 18 year-old me

More from the album

Aaahhh .. the Street Machine Nats …. Bad memories of Indy .. my friend having to spend the weekend in jail after getting bit by a police dog for doing nothing wrong … not being able to see him in jail … having to miss work Monday for my friends court date … hoping we could scrape together enough money to pay his fine without having to call his parents … fun times !

It was crazy, with riot cops (see picture above) and police dogs and wow - this was the first thing I went to after graduating High School and I was one wide - eyed kid!

Thank you for sharing this! This was my first attempt at an Old Skool Paint display but it will not be my last!! This was so much fun to put together. Some of the cars were still wearing their paint from the '70s, some were a refresh of a prior custom paint job and some were totally fresh, but they all had the perfect look. I think this display got more attention and media coverage than any other display I've ever done.

Get ready for Old Skool Paint 2.0

Ed

Agreed. I love the custom paint jobs, but prefer more stock body styles.

I like all that stuff too - back when they were just cars to have fun with and not rolling investment portfolios. I like original cars too, but it was always neat to see how creative some people could be with their cars.

I like the wild paint AND the body mods.

Our cars are cool and Chrysler did a great job on style but I am so tired of the same cars in the same colors with the same style.

Give me something to catch my eye not the same stuff I have seen for 40+ years.

I have grown to like the pink on pink cuda's and the light green stripes on dark green challengers. The things nobody ordered because they were not the normal color combo.

This link has a lot of the odd colors I have grown to like.


https://board.moparts.org/ubbthread...odge-challenger-body-color-question.html

Plus I bought this 14,000 mile 4 speed V code for $800 in 1974. Lol

I attended the Street Machine Nationals at Indy in 78, 79 & 81. Unfortunately, I don't have any pictures of my cars while there. I really wish I could find someone who might have pics of my cars, particularly the car I took in 78. It was the first Mopar I ever owned which was a red 70 Charger R/T. I did take pictures of the car while there but they were on my girlfriend's camera. We broke up shortly after the Nats and before the film was developed. Needless to say, she never gave me the film or the pictures. Also, Hot Rod magazine rounded up all of the Charger owner's and their cars for a photo shoot they were doing to include in an article on Chargers they were supposed to publish but they never published the article so I didn't get to see those pics either.

I did the Street Machine Nationals in Indy, two of them. The 1ist one was pretty cool, the 2nd was enough to make me not want to go back, ever. I took a 70 Road Runner to both, nothing special by the standards that was there.

My wife and I had our 2 YO daughter with us. We had a hotel on the west side of Indy, but somehow got into the mess on the east side. The people had the street blocked off, and had a pretty narrow pathway through the mass of humanity. The guy that was in front of me did a big burnout, people 30' in front of him (while he was doing the burn out) crowded into the only open pathway to get pictures of his efforts. He got a bit out of shape, and people were scrambling to get out of his way. To this day I have no idea how no one got hurt, but as soon as he passed, the narrow path was reorganized, a couple guys were holding onto the door handles of my car, and people were dumping bleach under my tires. The guy holding the drivers door handle told me I could go when ever I wanted, he and his buddy would hold my door handles so the smoke could really start to roll. About the same time the pathway in front of me was filled with people, I couldn't even see more the 30', nor could I see if anything was on the other side of them. I choose not to do anything stupid, I told the guy to get his hands off my car, and idled through the booing crowd.

When we finally got back to our hotel and got out daughter to sleep, and finally got to sleep ourselves, we got woke up around 2 am to sirens, flashing lights, lots of crowd noise, and Police on bullhorns yelling for the crowds to disperse. The police were just outside of our room window, and we were on the 2nd floor! I looked through the curtain and saw 3 policemen in full riot gear with a Police dog standing in front of our window looking into the parking lot. My car was down there someplace, but at that point, I wasn't concerned about the well being of my treasured car. ! When we got up the next morning, we left Indy.
Being on the grounds was fun, after that, nothing was fun at all.

I think this was 1980
Def Indy

I think this was 1980
Def Indy

1980 Car Craft Nats
Indy
Note the 2 carbs thru the hood