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Hey gang,
After the Carlisle show I stopped in for a visit with Tom Race at R/T Specialties. He has more NOS and used parts than a 454 can throw a rod at, it was amazing to see.

Tom gave me a HUGE box of dealership records from the L. L. Richardson Dodge dealership in Dallas, PA. The records rage from the 1930s to 1974 from what I have seen so far. I am estimating that there are records for approximately 3000 cars, everything from 6 bangers to 440-6 cars. The information is a real treat to see.

Due to the extra large donation of records, it will take me quite a while to get them all sorted out by VIN, model year and assembly plant. As I get each model year sorted out I will be listing them all in the "found" section of www.hamtramck-historical.com so that the legal owners of the cars can claim them.

For those of you I know with other Registries, I will have some information for several of you once I get to the cars you track.

I am going to have to buy at least two new filing cabinets and hundreds of file folders & page protectors to safely store these, so if anyone would like to make a monetary donation to help with that please let me know?

Thank you Tom for all of us!

Barry Washington

Cool! Good to hear it Barry!

Barry, you have Paypal? I'd gladly chip in a couple of bucks to help you archive these records

The records are in the best of hands now.

Don't have a fire or anything!

Hey Dave,
Please do not use that particular "F" word? It scares me.

Luckily we average about 13 feet of rain here a year, so forest fires and the like are quite rare.

I do have a Paypal account for donations, thanks for asking. Here is the link;

http://www.hamtramck-historical.com/donations.shtml

Thank you!

Barry

Hey guys,
I still have a lot to do with these, but the first batch of records were just added to the found section, 257 new entries, mostly Dodge cars from 1968 - 1974.

Happy hunting!

http://www.hamtramck-historical.com/found.shtml

Just an update for you all. Yesterday & today 177 new items were added from this stash, all for 1966 & 1967 cars, mostly Dodges, but there are some Chryslers & a Plymouth or two as well.


http://www.hamtramck-historical.com/found.shtml

I now have over 4000 item here waiting to be claimed, and the list will continue to grow, I still have hundreds of pages to sort.

Barry

Records for 95 1965 cars were just added to the site minutes ago. Two records have been claimed so far this month.

Hi Barry, I just stumbled across your "Found" section and typed in my vin for my 69 Dodge Superbee (wm23h9a143276). It said you may have dealership records!! I know the car was purchased there but what do you have? Thanks Rick (superbee99@msn.com)