Mopar Magazine wing car article To Fast to Soon

[nascarxx29]

http://www.moparmagazine.com/2009/nov-dec/too_fast_too_soon.html Also a small glimpse of the +88 car chassis. Larry Rathgeb inspects the 200-mph Dodge Charger Daytona engineering test car in 2009. Chrysler technician Greg Kwiatkowski rescued the car and is restoring it.

[nascarxx29]

Good reading And a picture of the #88 chassis being inspected

And found some other related #88 car info on this site

http://www.motorsport.com/news/article.asp?ID=80185&FS=HISTORY

[tan top]

good  find ,  good reading  !! thanks for posting the links   yes see the picture of the 88# car  ,  looks like the second generation body   are  back on there , unless i'm mistaken  
said  again though in the first paragraph , it was a nichels C500  , was lead to believe , from what i have read about , it was a magazine road rest C500 that was stolen the R4 j code with a four speed  

[nascarxx29]

Instead it mentions a 69 500 Paul Goldsmith crashed.That became the 093 #88 .Not mentioned was the stolen car recovered becoimg the race car #88
http://compositecommunication.com/docs/art-dodge_history-2.pdf

The other story here mentions the stolen recovered 68 charger that became the #88

[68X426]

Great stuff, thanks for posting. Keeps the history alive!

[Brock Samson]

wasn't the stolen Charger/88 one of the twin orange/Black HEMIs that were both featured in a four speed/torqueflite Comparison article in Hot Rod magazine?.. 

[nascarxx29]

 1968 Hemi magazine test car .Didnt see a dual car test
http://www.fendertagshop.com/index.php?q=node/19

[UFO]

wasn't the stolen Charger/88 one of the twin orange/Black HEMIs that were both featured in a four speed/torqueflite Comparison article in Hot Rod magazine?.. 

I think the title was "The crown comes back" or something like that.
Or was it car craft?
Maybe I should get off my butt and look it up.

[69_500]

wasn't the stolen Charger/88 one of the twin orange/Black HEMIs that were both featured in a four speed/torqueflite Comparison article in Hot Rod magazine?.. 

The stolen R4 red 4 speed HEMI car was bought by cotton Owens and is currently a restored car that is known. The other 4 speed car that was used in the Hot Rod magazine is yet another known HEMI 4 speed car that was owned by Mike Russo for years and years. That car was at Talladega last fall. The other car that was test driven was an AT HEMI car and it is another known car but it has yet to be restored and actually hasn't moved in years.

[nascarxx29]

wasn't the stolen Charger/88 one of the twin orange/Black HEMIs that were both featured in a four speed/torqueflite Comparison article in Hot Rod magazine?..  

I think the title was "The crown comes back" or something like that.
Or was it car craft?
Maybe I should get off my butt and look it up.

It was crown comes back a road test of 2 hemi charger 500s.Think it was in car life magazine

The 69 "Car Life" Road Test on the two C500's, and clearly states "the crown comes back"! The fastest road cars ever tested!!!
Chrysler supplied an auto, and a manual Hemi 500 which ran the best 1/4 mile time of 13.68.

[nascarxx29]

The roadtest list here shows 4 69 500s road tested
http://www.cobranet.com/roadtest.htm

[DC_1]

Good read, thanks for sharing some of the history.

[69_500]

The roadtest list here shows 4 69 500s road tested
http://www.cobranet.com/roadtest.htm

I don't know if I'd call everything on that website exactly accurate. They list the HP rating on all of the HEMI 500's at 375 which would be right if they were 440 cars. And then lower on the page it list a Plymouth Superbee that they ran in 1969.