November

NOV 2015
For Sale: ‘70 E-body LA 727, rebuilt with
kevlar clutches, low gear set, shift kit, deep
pan, Cope Racing 2400 stall converter.
Used for approx.4-5 years. Orig. build was
For Sale: 1929 Chrysler model 75, runs
and drives, restoration or rod project, $18k. $1,100, $400 rebuild. Asking $350 Michael
Harding 951/764-9533
Mopar parts manuals; truck 63-68, 69-71,
72-73, 74-77, 78-81; passenger car 76, 77, For Sale: ‘66 Hemi engine, see at
http://specialengines.com/project,
78, 79, 80, 81. All in Mopar binders $25
John Berrier, john@
each. 62-65 B-Body fuel tank, new unused.
specialengines.com
$100. 440 source 66-72 bb engine brackets
with DynaTech mounts and hardware, new
in box. $150. Contact Carl Kessel 760-3155326 or [email protected]
For Sale: ‘72 340 engine, complete, not in
Dart that was totaled 10 yrs ago. All paper
Mopar Club Newsletter Ad Rates
work on build. I am presently out of state
•Classified Ads
but if interested I can arrange for you to see
Club members free
it. $2,500 OBO. Dave
Non-members $10/mo*
Mopars By Jack
•Club Sponsor Ads
vintage car & truck restoration, repair,
Club members $60/6 months, min*
service 10% off labor to Club members
Non-members $100/6 months, min*
Mobile Service
* OR like-value raffle prizes or 15% off
Jack E. Henton
products/services to Club members
619-454-1396
760-598-9809, or [email protected]
Classifieds
As a tangible benefit to being a member of The
Mopar Club, you get free ads. Give Bob a fax
858/292-5344 or better e-mail [email protected]
For Sale: 331 Chrysler Hemi 4 bbl & trans
Greg 760-717-1995
For Sale: ‘66 Plymouth Fury dark blue/blue
(5) Redline tires & Magnum 500’s, 318
Poly, nice condition, $12,500 obo; Stainless Steel Brakes 4-wheel disk kit for ‘66
B-Body, new $1500 Rodger 760-724-1960
For Sale: ‘73-74 B Body F & R Firm Feel
suspension kit: springs, sway bars, links,
torsion bars, all bushings, spring hangers,
Bilstein shocks, steering & Pitman arms,
upper control arms,
alum. body/K frame
mounts, & more, cost
$3991, asking $2650
Doug 619-851-1833
esa
Plumbing Company
619-276-5275
Clubmember Kerry Kohl Lic #515449
Ralph Vagnone, Realtor
15% Mopar Club Discount on all
Parts, Services & Labor To Clubmembers
8355 Hercules Drive, La Mesa
619/463-9321
Balboa Real Estate
301 W. Broadway, Suite 800 SD
619-823-2431
[email protected]
Steve Williams
Mobile Welding
Frame Connectors
Spring Relocating
Rear Axle Bracing & Narrowing
(619)988-0778
email: [email protected]
So, there they were, two guys on a road
trip to head west up the Missouri River
from St. Louis, across the Rockies and
down the Columbia River to the Pacific.
Great fun, right? Well, the year was
1804 and these two guys were Army
Captain Meriwether Lewis and Second
Lieutenant William Clark. They were
accompanied by five non-commissioned
officers, thirty privates and three civilians, including Sacagawea and York, a
slave owned by Clark. And a big Newfoundland dog, Seaman, owned by
Lewis. Together, this trip comprised the
Corps of Discovery and was authorized
by President Thomas Jefferson, hisself.
The idea was to find a navigable route
to the Pacific, expand the territory of a
young America, and bring back a mammoth. Yes, a mammoth. Bones of these
creatures were starting to turn up back
then, and it was widely believed that
they were living out yonder.
Well, that wasn’t the only misconception about this trip. The first was
underestimating the rigors of weather,
raging white water rapids, mountains
that seemed to never end, and possible death by savage animals or native
Americans. Every day, the land was
trying to kill them. The exploration took
over two years, and blew through Congress’s appropriation of $2500, totalling
$58,000 dollars, big money back then.
I bring this up as Mrs. ‘umble and I
just got back from a fantastic river cruise
along about half of the Lewis and Clark
trail. Took a week, which the Corps did
over several months. We began in Portland, travelled up the Columbia and into
the Snake. Today, it’s difficult to imagine
what the Corps endured as Franklin D.
Roosevelt, during the Depression, commissioned the great Bonneville Dam.
There are now over twenty such dams
along what used to be rivers but are now
a series of lakes. Good thing he did, too,
as this dam generated a huge amount
of electricity which, a few years after
completion, powered several aluminum
plants for the WWII effort. Sam Hill
(“Where in the world...”) built some of
the Columbia Highway and a mansion in
early 1900’s that today is an art museum. On these grounds he also built a
WWI peace memorial that immortalizes
the residents of the area who died in that
conflict. It’s been expanded to include
current wars.
It’s amazing what a couple hundred
years of progress will do. Today, we
can journey safely, even comfortably,
in a Mopar and maybe spend, what, a
couple grand on gas, food and motels?
What would Lewis and Clark
think? -Bob Gough, Y’r ‘umble Ed’tr
The Newsletter of the Mopar Club/San Diego
www.moparclubsandiego.net
‘15 is windin’ down!!!
Cops & Rodders The Embarcadero Sun Oct 18 A
good turnout for the Pontiac Club’s annual car show,
and well supported by the Mopar Club who saw
Bert Luna in wife Renee’s ‘66 Valiant convertible,
Jonathan Gbenekema in his pretty ‘66 Plymouth, the
Cudas of Carolyn Mooney
(‘70) Cuda, Tom Ziarkowski
(‘67 convertible) and Dave
Russel (‘66 Formula S),
new member Ray Garner
with his stunning Viper
Carolyn’s Cuda
powered ‘68 Charger,
Rick Bobick with his 5.7
Hemi ‘65 Dodge, Larry
and Debbie Johnson in
their Challenger 440/6,
and Steve Ramos who
drove a Nova cop car
Tom’s Cuda
from the SD Police
Museum. Bill “HemiBoy”
showed his ‘67 Gran
Prix convertible in support of the Pontiac Club.
Rick’s 5.7 Hemi Dodge
The Johnson’s took Best
Engine.
NOV2015
Bert’s Valiant
Jonathan’s Plymouth
Dave’s Cuda
Larry &
Debbie’s
Challenger
Fall Fling Woodley
Park, Van Nuys Sat
Oct 24 There were only two Clubmembers that
Ray’s displayed their Mopars, those
V-10 Charger being
the
Dodge Magnum of Larry and
Debbie Johnson and the new
Larry &
Hellcat Challenger 6/speed
Steve’s
Debbie’s
of Steve VanderSchaaf, who
Hellcat
Magnum
showed his new ride with a freshly printed display board. Steve also brought his son Ryan. It is noted that Ryan
was NOT permitted to drive. And speaking of Hellcats, The Club has quite a few
on the roster with two Challengers (one a ‘16 to be delivered to replace one that
was hit by a drunk) owned by Hal and Carolyn Sullivan, a Challenger owned by
Brad Bigelow, Andre Redditt who owns a Challenger and a Charger, Greg Hodges, John Jones, and Jim Laramie with Challengers. And Dan and Paula Smith
in Lake Havasu City just received their new green Hellcat.
Bates Nut Farm
Sat Nov 7 Julie Walker reports in the absence of the PentaGram news staff
(management granted a one week vacation. Note that the floggings will resume
until morale improves), that Rick Bobick showed his Dodge, Jeff & Julie Walker
their GTX, Dave Russell was there with his Cuda, and Lee De Tro showed his
Dakota. None of 75 or so trophies went to Clubmembers’ Mopars.
Steve’s Nova cop car
ProFile
NOV 2015
All-AmericanScat Pack
Redux
Back in the day,
Clubmember Brian
Goad was a big fan
of Dukes of Hazzard
re-runs. He thought
that General Lee
Charger was about
the coolest car a fella
could own. Brian at
that time was maybe
ten years of age, and loved the sight
of that orange Charger jumping hills
and racing the back roads to evade
Sheriff Roscoe P. Coltrane. So, fast-forward to the present,
when Brian and his wife Melissa were
recently shopping for a new family car, they found a modern 2013
Charger R/T at Jack Powell Dodge.
No, it wasn’t a General Lee, but those
four doors were just what the family
needed for loading their son Luke’s
car seat. No, Luke was named for
other reasons that are important to
Brian and Melissa, not the lead character in the tv series. And those four
doors? They aren’t welded shut like
the Dukes’s car, a feature that Melissa
found to be most convenient. And no,
it wasn’t orange. Melissa thought that
to be a tad overstated. This particular
car was painted Dodge Pitch Black
and has a black and red leather
interior to give it some flash. It goes
cals were applied the rear quarter
without saying that the 5.7 Hemi V-8
windows, and until a few days ago, a
provided some additional interest to
custom Bumble Bee stripe in red vinyl
the performance-minded Goad family. adorned the rear deck and fenders.
But after getting the car home, Brian It was not made to MP standards,
began to wonder if he could personhowever, and Brian removed it. Soon,
alize the new family ride a bit more.
a new stripe will replace it.
After thinking about for a while, he
The interior upgrades include a
and Melissa thought up a theme,
T-handle shifter for the 5-speed
namely, to turn the car into a tribute to automatic, MP aluminum pedals, and
the Chargers of the Scat Pack era.
polished & brushed aluminum sill covFirst off, they decreed that all parts
ers that spell out “CHARGER”.
would be genuine Mopar PerforUnder the hood, the engine now
mance parts wherever possible. The
sports a carbon fiber cover in Hemi
MP Catalog had a nice assortment,
orange, and a MP cold air intake. A
too. For the exterior of their tribute
tip of the hat to the ‘70’s Scat Pack
R/T, vintage Charger script emblems
cars includes a pair of MP hood pins
were selected and
mounted to the C-pillars.
To augment that look,
they purchased a MP
polished billet grille insert
with Mopar and Charger
emblems
up
front.
Scat
Pack
Bee
A Hemi orange engine cover and a cold air intake look great
deand bring the 5.7 Hemi up to Scat Pack Stage 1 status.
and the stock rims were
replaced with Mopar 20”
Classic II polished wheels.
An MP cat-back stainless
steel exhaust replaced the
stock system, which, along
with the cold air intake,
brings this family four door
to current Dodge Scat Pack
Stage 1 status.
The Goad family now
rolls with all the comfort,
performance and reliability of a modern four door
sports sedan. But they do
it with a look that, thanks
to the MP catalog, looks
factory but is uniquely their
own.
These days, Brian isn’t
evading Sheriff Roscoe P.
He’s a mature, upstandLeft:, hood
pins, and
Right,
Scat Pack,
Hemi and
PentaStar
badges
compliment
the 20”
wheels.
ing family
man. But
he is into
Mopars,
as are
Melissa
and their
son
Luke.
And
although
their
Charger is modern beyond what the
General Lee was, ya gotta believe
cousins Bo and Luke Duke would be
happy to jump the backroads of
Hazzard in it.
Below: MP stainless exhaust
system gives this 5.7 a nice bark.
Clubmembers Brian and Melissa Goad have made their 2013 Charger R/T into a tribute to the ‘70’s
Scat Pack by acquiring parts from Mopar Performance. Brian and Melissa have created a website for
those interested in upgrading their cars. Check it out at http://www.drfoofooandmrhide.com
Upcoming Events
Next meeting @ CasaSignorelli
Sun Dec 6, 1p Club Xmas Party! see below
•RaceLegal @ The Q, Nov 20, Dec 4, 18
•Barona Drags Nov 14, 28, Dec 12
•Cruisn’ for the Vets, Nov 14 Educational
Cultural Center 4343 Ocean View Blvd. SD
619-857-7272
•51st NHRA Finals Nov 12-15 Pomona
Raceway 2780 Fairplex, Pomona
•Hellcat Saturday Nov 21 Michael Harding, StreetLegalTV.com, is road testing the
Charger Hellcat & will be at Viau Motorsports,
14765 Toft Dr, Lake Elsinore in the am. Drive
thru back roads to lunch, and to San Diego, finally to The Slab on Clairemont Mesa Blvd at
Diane St. for dinner. Clubmembers welcome!
•9th RockaBilly Extravaganza, Nov 28, 8am
Hanger 24 Riverside Airport 6951 Flight Rd.
Riverside www.rockabilly66.com
•Long Beach Swap Meet Nov 29 & Dec 13
6am Long Beach Veterans Stadium 5000 Lew
Davis, Long Beach
•Mopar Club Xmas Party Sun Dec 6 1pm
Casa Signorelli 1328 Welsh Way, Ramona
Bring a pot luck & optional wrapped gift for
Evil Santa Gift Exchange Be sure to rsvp Jim
& Kay 760-789-4445 by Dec 1
•Pomona Swap Meet Dec 6 & Jan 17 5a-2p
Pomona Fairplex
•30th Street Masters Christmas Cruise
for Kids, San Diego, 8am Dec 13 Pancake
breakfast by world renowned chef’s
Torrey Pines High School 3710 Del Mar
Heights Rd. 760-315-2057
•29th Burger Run, Vista, Jan 9 6am
Pepper Tree Frosty Burger 270 So. Santa Fe
Ave. 760-744-3340 www.burgerrun.info
•Fallbrook Rods & Relics, 7a every Sat,
Sunrise Cafe, Hwy 76 @ Mission, Bonsall.
•La Jolla Classic Cruise, every Sun 7am,
7300 Girard Ave
•San Marcos Cruise 1st Sun 11am
1080 West San Marcos Blvd
•Overdrive Hot Rod News Swap/Show
2nd Sun 8a Twisted Manzanita Ale & Spirit
10151 Prospect, Santee
•Ramona American Grafitti Cruise 7pm every Thur. start at Dunkin’ Donuts1410 Main St
•In & Out Burger Poway 11am 12890 Gregg
Ct. (Kohl’s Parking lot) 1st Sat
•East County Cruisers 6:30p Tuesdays,
Tyler’s Taste of Texas 576 N. 2nd, El Cajon
•Ramona Cruise, Sun 4p-8, on Main St in
Albertson’s pkg lot
•Gearhead Gathering, 1st Sat 10-noon & 3rd
Sat 6-8p behind Chevron & Foster’s Freeze
off Waring Rd, .sdmustangs.com
•Cruisin’ Italian Style, Pernicano’s, 1588 E.
Main, El Cajon, ea. Thur nite
•The Classic Malt Shop every Friday, 5p,
3615 Midway Dr.
•Home Town Buffet 1st Sat each month
9am, 2nd/4th Tues 5:30pm, Main St, E.C.
•Good Ole Boys Breakfast 10am
2nd & 4th Wed, Denny’s 2642 Jamacha
•Coco’s Restaurant 11a-3p, 3rd Sun 16759
Bernardo Center Dr, R’cho B’rdo
•Ruby’s Diner Carlsbad Company Stores,
7- 9:30am last Sat 5620 Paseo Del Norte
•Fred’s Old Fashioned Burgers Alpine, 1st,
Sat 3rd, 5th Sat, 5pm
NOV 2015
For Sale: ‘70 E-body LA 727, rebuilt with
kevlar clutches, low gear set, shift kit, deep
pan, Cope Racing 2400 stall converter.
Used for approx.4-5 years. Orig. build was
For Sale: 1929 Chrysler model 75, runs
and drives, restoration or rod project, $18k. $1,100, $400 rebuild. Asking $350 Michael
Harding 951/764-9533
Mopar parts manuals; truck 63-68, 69-71,
72-73, 74-77, 78-81; passenger car 76, 77, For Sale: ‘66 Hemi engine, see at
http://specialengines.com/project,
78, 79, 80, 81. All in Mopar binders $25
John Berrier, john@
each. 62-65 B-Body fuel tank, new unused.
specialengines.com
$100. 440 source 66-72 bb engine brackets
with DynaTech mounts and hardware, new
in box. $150. Contact Carl Kessel 760-3155326 or [email protected]
For Sale: ‘72 340 engine, complete, not in
Dart that was totaled 10 yrs ago. All paper
Mopar Club Newsletter Ad Rates
work on build. I am presently out of state
•Classified Ads
but if interested I can arrange for you to see
Club members free
it. $2,500 OBO. Dave
Non-members $10/mo*
Mopars By Jack
•Club Sponsor Ads
vintage car & truck restoration, repair,
Club members $60/6 months, min*
service 10% off labor to Club members
Non-members $100/6 months, min*
Mobile Service
* OR like-value raffle prizes or 15% off
Jack E. Henton
products/services to Club members
619-454-1396
760-598-9809, or [email protected]
Classifieds
As a tangible benefit to being a member of The
Mopar Club, you get free ads. Give Bob a fax
858/292-5344 or better e-mail [email protected]
For Sale: 331 Chrysler Hemi 4 bbl & trans
Greg 760-717-1995
For Sale: ‘66 Plymouth Fury dark blue/blue
(5) Redline tires & Magnum 500’s, 318
Poly, nice condition, $12,500 obo; Stainless Steel Brakes 4-wheel disk kit for ‘66
B-Body, new $1500 Rodger 760-724-1960
For Sale: ‘73-74 B Body F & R Firm Feel
suspension kit: springs, sway bars, links,
torsion bars, all bushings, spring hangers,
Bilstein shocks, steering & Pitman arms,
upper control arms,
alum. body/K frame
mounts, & more, cost
$3991, asking $2650
Doug 619-851-1833
esa
Plumbing Company
619-276-5275
Clubmember Kerry Kohl Lic #515449
Ralph Vagnone, Realtor
15% Mopar Club Discount on all
Parts, Services & Labor To Clubmembers
8355 Hercules Drive, La Mesa
619/463-9321
Balboa Real Estate
301 W. Broadway, Suite 800 SD
619-823-2431
[email protected]
Steve Williams
Mobile Welding
Frame Connectors
Spring Relocating
Rear Axle Bracing & Narrowing
(619)988-0778
email: [email protected]
So, there they were, two guys on a road
trip to head west up the Missouri River
from St. Louis, across the Rockies and
down the Columbia River to the Pacific.
Great fun, right? Well, the year was
1804 and these two guys were Army
Captain Meriwether Lewis and Second
Lieutenant William Clark. They were
accompanied by five non-commissioned
officers, thirty privates and three civilians, including Sacagawea and York, a
slave owned by Clark. And a big Newfoundland dog, Seaman, owned by
Lewis. Together, this trip comprised the
Corps of Discovery and was authorized
by President Thomas Jefferson, hisself.
The idea was to find a navigable route
to the Pacific, expand the territory of a
young America, and bring back a mammoth. Yes, a mammoth. Bones of these
creatures were starting to turn up back
then, and it was widely believed that
they were living out yonder.
Well, that wasn’t the only misconception about this trip. The first was
underestimating the rigors of weather,
raging white water rapids, mountains
that seemed to never end, and possible death by savage animals or native
Americans. Every day, the land was
trying to kill them. The exploration took
over two years, and blew through Congress’s appropriation of $2500, totalling
$58,000 dollars, big money back then.
I bring this up as Mrs. ‘umble and I
just got back from a fantastic river cruise
along about half of the Lewis and Clark
trail. Took a week, which the Corps did
over several months. We began in Portland, travelled up the Columbia and into
the Snake. Today, it’s difficult to imagine
what the Corps endured as Franklin D.
Roosevelt, during the Depression, commissioned the great Bonneville Dam.
There are now over twenty such dams
along what used to be rivers but are now
a series of lakes. Good thing he did, too,
as this dam generated a huge amount
of electricity which, a few years after
completion, powered several aluminum
plants for the WWII effort. Sam Hill
(“Where in the world...”) built some of
the Columbia Highway and a mansion in
early 1900’s that today is an art museum. On these grounds he also built a
WWI peace memorial that immortalizes
the residents of the area who died in that
conflict. It’s been expanded to include
current wars.
It’s amazing what a couple hundred
years of progress will do. Today, we
can journey safely, even comfortably,
in a Mopar and maybe spend, what, a
couple grand on gas, food and motels?
What would Lewis and Clark
think? -Bob Gough, Y’r ‘umble Ed’tr
The Newsletter of the Mopar Club/San Diego
www.moparclubsandiego.net
‘15 is windin’ down!!!
Cops & Rodders The Embarcadero Sun Oct 18 A
good turnout for the Pontiac Club’s annual car show,
and well supported by the Mopar Club who saw
Bert Luna in wife Renee’s ‘66 Valiant convertible,
Jonathan Gbenekema in his pretty ‘66 Plymouth, the
Cudas of Carolyn Mooney
(‘70) Cuda, Tom Ziarkowski
(‘67 convertible) and Dave
Russel (‘66 Formula S),
new member Ray Garner
with his stunning Viper
Carolyn’s Cuda
powered ‘68 Charger,
Rick Bobick with his 5.7
Hemi ‘65 Dodge, Larry
and Debbie Johnson in
their Challenger 440/6,
and Steve Ramos who
drove a Nova cop car
Tom’s Cuda
from the SD Police
Museum. Bill “HemiBoy”
showed his ‘67 Gran
Prix convertible in support of the Pontiac Club.
Rick’s 5.7 Hemi Dodge
The Johnson’s took Best
Engine.
NOV2015
Bert’s Valiant
Jonathan’s Plymouth
Dave’s Cuda
Larry &
Debbie’s
Challenger
Fall Fling Woodley
Park, Van Nuys Sat
Oct 24 There were only two Clubmembers that
Ray’s displayed their Mopars, those
V-10 Charger being
the
Dodge Magnum of Larry and
Debbie Johnson and the new
Larry &
Hellcat Challenger 6/speed
Steve’s
Debbie’s
of Steve VanderSchaaf, who
Hellcat
Magnum
showed his new ride with a freshly printed display board. Steve also brought his son Ryan. It is noted that Ryan
was NOT permitted to drive. And speaking of Hellcats, The Club has quite a few
on the roster with two Challengers (one a ‘16 to be delivered to replace one that
was hit by a drunk) owned by Hal and Carolyn Sullivan, a Challenger owned by
Brad Bigelow, Andre Redditt who owns a Challenger and a Charger, Greg Hodges, John Jones, and Jim Laramie with Challengers. And Dan and Paula Smith
in Lake Havasu City just received their new green Hellcat.
Bates Nut Farm
Sat Nov 7 Julie Walker reports in the absence of the PentaGram news staff
(management granted a one week vacation. Note that the floggings will resume
until morale improves), that Rick Bobick showed his Dodge, Jeff & Julie Walker
their GTX, Dave Russell was there with his Cuda, and Lee De Tro showed his
Dakota. None of 75 or so trophies went to Clubmembers’ Mopars.
Steve’s Nova cop car