Muscle Car and Corvette Nationals Rosemont IL November 21&22 2015

[Devil]

One or two pictures here.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/hemipwr70/collections/72157661014774020/

Ryan

[RzeroB]

Great pics Ryan! That's some quality work right there.


Now if you want to see some low-quality amateur stuff, you can check out some video I took of the Hemi E-body convertibles. I was rather fixated on the 'verts, so all my video is of them. They seemed to have lost some quality when I converted them from .MTS to .MP4 format, but it is the best I can do as I really don't know what the heck I am doing with digital video anyway! But if you want to see some amateur stuff, just click on the images below to start the short video for each.


Welcome to the Hemi E-body convertible invitational display! 27 of the 41 Hemi E-body 'verts were all on display at once - that is an absolutely staggering amount of money on display - maybe $40 to $45 million?


The "Brothers" row. The "Brothers Collection" dominated the display with an incredible total of nine cars! Who are those guys?! The row was rounded out with the former Steve Bagwell TX9 '70 Cuda and Tom Lembeck's FE5 and GA4 '71's.


The "Blakes" row. On the opposite side of the isle from the "Brothers" row was the "Blake" row with the Blakes having five cars on display. Leading off the row was the seldom seen TX9 '70 Cuda of Cy Behlman. After that were the five Blake cars starting with their TX9 "70 Cuda and ending with their EV2 '71 Cuda. Included with the Blake's cars was their FC7 '70 Cuda, which was being shown for the first time following a full restoration that was just completed a week before the show. Got to give credit to the Blakes for their display boards - they were awesome! Rounding out the row were Wade Ogle's FC7 '70 Cuda, FJ5 '70 Challenger and FE5 '71 Cuda; Greg Nelson's FC7 '70 Challenger, Thad Thurling's EW1 '70 Cuda, and Peter Klutt's FY1 '70 Cuda


The Mecum / Torino three. These three Hemi E-body 'verts are formerly of Brett Torino's collection and will be featured at Mecum's 2016 Kissimmee auction.

[RzeroB]

Can anyone guess as to who the C-C.com member is there in the yellow shirt? 

Recently sold a '71 440-6 Challenger 

That's his '71 HemiCuda there in front of him 

That's right! It's Rick Simpson aka BS27R1B! ... but I have no idea who that guy is that he is talking to!

[anlauto]

You mean that really good looking guy in the grey sweater ?

[JimSC]

Reading the signboard for that WHITE '71 Hemi Cuda, it was provided to Don Grotheer from Chrysler "for parts" to change his '70 APro Stock Cuda to a '71. They provided a HEMI car? Cool...

[BS27R1B]

Don Grotheer was given two 1971 Hemi cars under his contract, the white Hemi Cuda and a Hemi Road Runner as well as a Barracuda body in primer. The Cuda was never raced, it was literally a shipping crate that was taken apart and he gave the shell to a kid that hung around his shop. Jerry Gavner(SP?) left it in his mom's back yard until it was found by Scott Lindsey around 1984. The shell changed hands several times before ending up in Jason Repucci's hand who carried out the restoration by 2007.
For Don Grotheer's first Pro Stock car he was given three white hemi Cudas along with a body in white. One of the 70 Cudas was stripped and the shell taken to a local scrap yard. The other two Cudas were painted like his Pro Stock car with one serving as the his wife, Joan's, driver and one as a SS/D car and Performance Car Clinic vehicle.
When I asked Don about the two bodies he turfed he told me he had no room in the shop for another vehicle let alone a body with no suspension or wheels to move it around. They had to go.

[JimSC]

Thanks for sharing all that. Very cool information, very cool to see one of those cars talked about. I'll never miss that show as long as I'm alive...

[anlauto]

You should make a die-cast of the Don Grotheer 71 Cuda "body in white" car