Main Re-Create Owner Racer 67 Hemi Coronet R/T, Fifty-Fifty Inwards Improver To Hence Has It, Fifty-Fifty Inwards Improver To Hence Races It. Alone Unopen To 3500 Miles On The Odometer
Jim Keyes has had his 1967 Hemi Coronet R/T since it was new, level racing it inwards SS/DA with WO components back inwards the dull ’60s also early ’70s.
He bought this Coronet R/T novel at a Dodge dealer within a hardware store also implement companionship inwards a small, rural town inwards key Michigan.
Just xx years old inwards dull 1966, also working every bit a mechanic at a Mercury also Rambler dealership, Jim wanted to trade his 1965 Coronet inwards on something he could bring to the strip.
He had his sights laid upward on something inwards the Ford big-block family. "I went inwards also sat downwardly with the owner of the dealership," Jim recalls. "I was going to buy a Comet 202, two-door sedan with a 427 inwards it. He wouldn't have got whatever trouble organisation purpose of selling me the car. I intend he was more than of a six-cylinder Rambler American type of guy, also he didn't wish anything to exercise with high performance."
Jim returned to Chesaning Hardware also Implement Co. to trade inwards the '65 on a novel '67 R/T. "It was variety of a not bad petty dealership," he says. "The guy had a 1965 Dodge A990 that he was drag racing. In 1967, he bought a Dart, a flip-top Funny Car. It was variety of a performance-y type place."
"I knew that I wanted a Hemi because I wanted to drag-race Super Stock D automatic. So, I went upwards at that topographic betoken also I ordered the car. He gave me a genuinely proficient contend on it."
Other than the Hemi also a TorqueFlite automatic, Jim chose genuinely few options on the car: "It came with an AM radio also a rear-seat speaker also that was it." With a proficient contend inwards hand, he took possession of his novel R/T a few weeks later.
"I never testament forget the offset nighttime when I went to pick upwards the car. The dealer called me to tell me my automobile was in. I was going to drive it home. Chesaning is quite a small, petty town, also thus I drove it to the outskirts of town, stopped also solely left it inwards drive. I matted the affair also ran it through the gears. I recall looking at the tach I had laid upward inwards level before I picked it up, also the affair would shift into infinitesimal right at 7,000 RPM from the factory. It was quite the car."
Now inwards Pure Stock form, Jim had laid upward downwardly an 11.48 at the 2017 FAST drag races with 11.75 to i compression also 4.56 gears
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