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'73 Rod Shop Demon Pro Stock ???
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Does anyone have any information on the Rod Shop Demon Bob Riffle drove in pro stock? I'm looking for detail photos such as interior and engine bay shots. Also does anyone know who built the car and if it was an updated earlier car? Also does anyone have contact info for Mr.Riffle?
Thanks in advance for your help.
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Re: '73 Rod Shop Demon Pro Stock ???
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Jody, I think Riffle had two cars...the one pictured appears to be the Dart Sport.
The last time I knew, the Demon was owned and raced by a guy named Thompson from the Pittsburgh area with a wedge. I think that Ed Eckenrode, a Chrysler rep from Pittsburgh, may have owned for a while before Thompson. It was a regular in brackets at the old Keystone (now Pittsburgh) raceway park. What was unique about, at least in my eyes, was the side bar for the roll cage was high, almost to the level of the driver's shoulders. It was very noticeable and visible through the driver's window.
I don't know what happened to it.....I haven't seen it in quite a few years. Someone told me not too long ago that Thompson (I think it was Bob Thompson) still owned it, and it was parked in the Pittsburgh area. I am not sure of that, but that is what I've heard.
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Re: '73 Rod Shop Demon Pro Stock ???
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Jody, I think Riffle had two cars...the one pictured appears to be the Dart Sport.
The last time I knew, the Demon was owned and raced by a guy named Thompson from the Pittsburgh area with a wedge. I think that Ed Eckenrode, a Chrysler rep from Pittsburgh, may have owned for a while before Thompson. It was a regular in brackets at the old Keystone (now Pittsburgh) raceway park. What was unique about, at least in my eyes, was the side bar for the roll cage was high, almost to the level of the driver's shoulders. It was very noticeable and visible through the driver's window.
I don't know what happened to it.....I haven't seen it in quite a few years. Someone told me not too long ago that Thompson (I think it was Bob Thompson) still owned it, and it was parked in the Pittsburgh area. I am not sure of that, but that is what I've heard.
Tommy Thomas,has the Demon that Eckenrode had,still has it.It's Viper Red with B-1 engine. 
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Re: '73 Rod Shop Demon Pro Stock ???
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Does anyone have any information on the Rod Shop Demon Bob Riffle drove in pro stock? I'm looking for detail photos such as interior and engine bay shots. Also does anyone know who built the car and if it was an updated earlier car? Also does anyone have contact info for Mr.Riffle?
There was a 71 Demon, a 73 Dart Sport and a 75 Dart Sport. Are you interested in the Demon or the 73 car? The Demon was actually a 70 Duster that Riffle built for the Rod Shop. It was reskinned as a Demon when they got the Dodge deal in 71. I have pix of that car from 1975 and it still retains the 71-72 Demon sheetmetal. The 73 car was built for Fons and run briefly by him before he was fired in early 73. That car was taken over by Riffle and Gene Dunlap and was recently in the hands of Jim Kramer and Dick Towers, still in Rod Shop colors (photo below). The 75 was a high tech Bulter built car. It was purchased directly from Gil Kirk in 1978 by Joe Gauger in Indiana. That car is still in his family and has been restored to Rod Shop colors. Riffle is alive and well in Charlotte. PM me if you need his number.
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Re: '73 Rod Shop Demon Pro Stock ???
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Yeah, that's him.
Bob, do you have a hand in that car?
I know you owned the Challenger....is that the SS/DA car that McGraw drove?
Tommy was a good friend of Curt's.The Challenger was an SS/E stick car that Bob Bonds ran.
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Re: '73 Rod Shop Demon Pro Stock ???
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Yeah, that's him.
Bob, do you have a hand in that car?
I know you owned the Challenger....is that the SS/DA car that McGraw drove?
Tommy was a good friend of Curt's.The Challenger was an SS/E stick car that Bob Bonds ran.
Challenger or CHARGER???? 
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Re: '73 Rod Shop Demon Pro Stock ???
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Re: '73 Rod Shop Demon Pro Stock ???
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Great History! I didn't know Riffle was a Neighbor of mine and I've lived in Charlotte for 23 years!!
Speaking of the Rod Shop, does anyone know what happenened to Dave Boertman's(sp) 71 Charger that won all the races and really put the Rod Shop on the Map?
The 71'Challenger that Boertman had all the wins in was a SS/IA car. It was sold to local mopar racer Paul Marcum. He ran it for a couple of years with very little luck. He put a Hemi in it and ran it in SS/DA. I don't know what he ended up doing to it.
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Re: '73 Rod Shop Demon Pro Stock ???
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Since Dick Towers passing what has happened to
the Rod Shop Dart that he had bought?
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Re: '73 Rod Shop Demon Pro Stock ???
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Yeah, that's him.
Bob, do you have a hand in that car?
I know you owned the Challenger....is that the SS/DA car that McGraw drove?
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Tommy was a good friend of Curt's.The Challenger was an SS/E stick car that Bob Bonds ran.
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Challenger or CHARGER????
1970 Challenger 4 speed SS/E.Have the pictures of it in the Rod Shop colors as raced.The car was bought orignally by two local guys,Deblasio and Grey,the sold it to Jerry Pochieba who sold it to Curt.Curt sold it and his 67GTX to a guy down the street who still owns both cars.
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Re: '73 Rod Shop Demon Pro Stock ???
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It's a acid dipped, Don Hardy car. Mag "Ramcharger" Dana lots of "light" parts. Herb McCandless looked at it at Salem and thinks it was a "good" car but didn't know whose. It had a Hemi & Lenco at one time. It is a good unmolested "survivor".
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Re: '73 Rod Shop Demon Pro Stock ???
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Jody,are there more pics of the car? Inside,underhood or maybe suspension?
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