Iron Butterfly info?

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Have to get to Rick's this weekend an look. It was Spehar's wifes car tha he built.

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Who are they?

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they are two guys that live in ohio who raced back when those cars were new.they also campained a 65 coronet hemi car called the cruasader.not as high profile as some others listed.but still part of super stock racing i remember growing up.

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Did Jackson/Coleman get the car from the Rod Shop? Rick seem to think it spent some time in Louisiana B4 DeFrank.

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Corky Bliss out of Louisiana may have had it at one time.

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The aluminum front end that is on it is not original. Rod Shop bought it off a guy in KY. The shop paid $500 for the nose. That was in 79'or80'

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Interesting!!!! I have found my old Dodge but less front end. The front was missing when Fred E. got the car from Donnie Chapman. Donnie also bought it less front. We sold the car to Donald Stepp, who has passed. I think he raced the car locally until the mid 80"s though. There is a Max Wedge aluminum front end out there somewhere.

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Oldfield told me they (Dick and possibly Ted) went through the Chrysler parts warehouse and picked out all the aluminum parts for the car. Dick told me the brakes were terrible when he drove it. Ted had installed wooden brake drums on the front. I wonder who ended up with those?

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News to me about the aluminum since the car was built by Spehar to run a steel nose. Dave Koffel told me that because he was one of the ones who commissioned the 4 steel nose/fresh air Hemi '64 cars that year. Also, Wally Booth drove it before Dick O. Dick O used it after he broke the Dart he was running for the NY Dodge Dealers. He never owned the car.

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Good info, Poppa J. Did the doors come with the deal?

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News to me about the aluminum since the car was built by Spehar to run a steel nose. Dave Koffel told me that because he was one of the ones who commissioned the 4 steel nose/fresh air Hemi '64 cars that year. Also, Wally Booth drove it before Dick O. Dick O used it after he broke the Dart he was running for the NY Dodge Dealers. He never owned the car.

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The Hemi hardtops were the only ones to come with the steel nose. These cars were an early "paper car." Along the lines of the single 4 barrel '65 Hemi's running Stock right now.

Would be great to have Ted chime in on this.

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Call Bruce Meihls at Fast Racing in Groveport OH for more history. As I recall, the Fink Bros raced this car as a SS/EA Max Wedge car with steel front end under Rod Shop paint. In about 82 or so, Bruce and Larry converted the car to a Hemi SS/BA car with aluminum front end and doors. I also remember Bruce talking about finding a very rare plexiglass rear window and it seems like an aluminum trunk lid (not too sure on that one). Mark

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Well, neither Dick or Ted are interested ini posting directly on here, so I called Ted to get the story. I had to call Stewart P. to get his number, and Stewart thought the brake drums were wood, so maybe I confused his story with what Dick told me. I took some notes and will try to get it exactly per Ted. He had to make it short to take his wife to the doctor's office. I'll try back later to get the rest of the story.

Per Ted:

The car was his wife's car, a 6 cylinder 330, 1964 Dodge. They built the car in two weeks. It had the aluminum front end, NOT steel. He wasn't sure where the parts came from, but thought it was the DC warehouse.

Dick broke his car, and he met Dick at a race on the east coast. He sold the car after the finals, the engine went one way and the car another. He said the car was sold to someone in Dayton, Ohio, then the Rod Shop got it later and Dave Boertman drove it.

Ted said the fiberglass drums were on the D-Dart he had, and not on the Hemi car. He mentioned that Rick Johnson thought it was an original '64 Hemi car when he bought it because it had many of the original parts on it.

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