BRICK BY BRICK

OUR SECOND ‘69 A-BODY has quite a different history vs. Brian's Dart. Originally, it led a less-than-pampered life as a New Jersey Bell Telephone Company foreman's car, being knocked around the Newark, NJ area. Painted military olive drab, with a gold “Bell System” decal (true decalcomania, not sticker) on each door, it was an absolute stripper. It had but two options, in addition the paint code 999: (1) Spare tire delete, and (2) a pair of 6.50X13 mounted snow tires in the trunk. In the ‘90, yours truly began to get serious, running The One Lap of America more times that I can remember. A Barton-built 394 CID iron-W-2 smallblock, with Accel SMPI made power aplenty, and the rest of the powertrain, suspension, and brakes saw several upratchets. As this is written,…

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Mopar Action (Digital) - 1 Issue, December 2023

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