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Here are some pic´s from the Bilsport Performance & Custom Motor Show in Jönköping 2015. It is a show mainly for modified cars.

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Stunning examples,,thanks for posting Christer

Amazing cars there!!!
Some real quality, looks like a top flight US show.

Love the Gasser Barracuda & the silver & blue stripe protouring Charger

Adrian Worman wrote:Love the Gasser Barracuda & the silver & blue stripe protouring Charger

I agree with you, Adrian. I am thinking about the gasser style. Did all of them have a front beam axle? What was the main purposes with using a front beam axle? Was it getting a roomier engine compartment, weight savings, weight distibution or show?

About the pro touring Charger: It seems like the body consists of brushed steel with just clearcoat on top. Hopefully they started with a straight body - otherwise they must have spent a lot of time prepping the body. I hate to be picking on such a nice car, but a problem area is where you have tin troweled. There will be another finish in these areas. A super-nice car!

Adrian Worman wrote:Amazing cars there!!!
Some real quality, looks like a top flight US show.

Thanks! It is by far the best and largest in-door show for modified cars we have in Sweden. By natural reasons I don´t think it as on the same level as the best shows in the US.

Eddie wrote:Stunning examples,,thanks for posting Christer

Thanks! All of the photos are borrowed from www.fuzzydice.se . That site is a great source for photos from diffferent car shows in Sweden. Try the following link and you will find many thousands of photos. http://fuzzydice.fotki.com/

By a strange coincidence, I met up with a guy at this particular car show. He grew up in in the same small village as myself. His name is Roger. We even went to the same school for a number of weeks. A couple of times I travelled to school in the 1960 Cadillac he owned at that time. I immediately recoqnized him even though we had not seen each other for about thirty years. Now that lucky bastard (sorry ) owns a 69´Hemi Charger. According to him it is one of only four export Hemi Chargers that year. He bought it from the Netherlands and has been restoring it for a number of years. To me it seems like he has done a great job. The well known finish dragracer Jari Konola (I think) helped him with the engine. He did well becuse when Roger and his daughter went to a car meet, his daughter begged him to floor the pedal. When he did this, four bolts in the rear axle were sheared into pieces. Roger believed this happened due to an un-even layer of asphalt, making the tires stick from time to time while smoking the tires.

I did not know that some of the Hemi cars had the 8 3/4 rear axle. I thought all of them had the Dana 60. You learn something new each day.

We had a nice chat for about 30 minutes. It was fun meeting him.

Great pictures thanks for sharing.

Dale1035 wrote:Great pictures thanks for sharing.

You´re welcome.

christer wrote:
I did not know that some of the Hemi cars had the 8 3/4 rear axle. I thought all of them had the Dana 60. You learn something new each day..

I'm sure as anything that Hemi cars could only come with a heavy duty drivetrain package, which of course included a Dana axle, especially a 4 speed?!
Be interesting to see what the experts on here say..................

Charger looks awesome tho does'nt it?
He is a 'lucky bastard'

Adrian Worman wrote:

christer wrote:
I did not know that some of the Hemi cars had the 8 3/4 rear axle. I thought all of them had the Dana 60. You learn something new each day..

I'm sure as anything that Hemi cars could only come with a heavy duty drivetrain package, which of course included a Dana axle, especially a 4 speed?!
Be interesting to see what the experts on here say..................

Charger looks awesome tho does'nt it?
He is a 'lucky bastard'

Ade,

If you orderd a Hemi car back in the day´s whit a auto trans you got a 8 3/4 rear end in the back if you dident go for the track pac but on the 4 speed option you got a dana !

Pat wrote:

Adrian Worman wrote:

christer wrote:
I did not know that some of the Hemi cars had the 8 3/4 rear axle. I thought all of them had the Dana 60. You learn something new each day..

I'm sure as anything that Hemi cars could only come with a heavy duty drivetrain package, which of course included a Dana axle, especially a 4 speed?!
Be interesting to see what the experts on here say..................

Charger looks awesome tho does'nt it?
He is a 'lucky bastard'

Ade,

If you orderd a Hemi car back in the day´s whit a auto trans you got a 8 3/4 rear end in the back if you dident go for the track pac but on the 4 speed option you got a dana !

Nice one Pat, thanks for clearing that up for me!
I'm amazed, I just assumed all Hemi cars wether B,C or E bodies got a Dana.

Did all RB engined R/T cars with 4 speeds get a Dana too?

Hey Ade ! No as far as i have heard the 440 R/T cars dident get a Dana if the car had a 4 speed if
the one ordering it dident go for the Track Pac but im not shore ! Happy New Year Guy´s

Pat wrote:Happy New Year Guy´s

The same to you, Pat. (and everyone else)

My understanding is that RB cars with 4 speeds got the Dana while all others (smallblock, andB & RB autos) got the 8 3/4. (Unless ordered). Can't recall offhand about TAs and AARs though, not near my reference materials.
My knowledge is really limited compared to others on here though.

fal308 wrote:My understanding is that RB cars with 4 speeds got the Dana while all others (smallblock, andB & RB autos) got the 8 3/4. (Unless ordered). Can't recall offhand about TAs and AARs though, not near my reference materials.
My knowledge is really limited compared to others on here though.

70-71 E-bodies: I believe that the cars with 440 sixpack/4-speed or 426Hemi/4-speed got the Dana as standard. On all of the other models, the Dana was an option. That is what I believe.

I still ask myself which of the 1964-1969 Hemi cars that got the Dana as standard.

I decided to hi-jack my own thread. I took these pic´s on a meeting in Ronneby 2015.

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Fantastic cars! No apologies required for posting those Christer

I love the 71 R/T Charger, thats not a Super Bee tho is it? I know it was an option on some, also that Challenger convertible, very nice

Some very nice Mopars!!! Maybe that's what I should do with my 354 Hemi

Adrian Worman wrote:I love the 71 R/T Charger, thats not a Super Bee tho is it? I know it was an option on some

I suppose it is this car you are referring to? I assume that it is a Charger R/T by reading the text on the car, but I am not 100% sure.

Adrian Worman wrote:Fantastic cars! No apologies required for posting those Christer

Thanks, Ade! Your kind words makes me do another hi-jack on my own thread.

In spring 2015 a attended a very local meeting in Sjuntorp, 60 km north of where I live (in Gothenburg). The first pic´s shows my personal favourites: A field-painted Challenger that probably not has been repainted since the eighties. Super-cool, if you ask me. The other car is a blown 426 Hemi Satellite. It gives me goose-bumps.

Here are the rest of the cars I saw in Sjuntorp.

The last of the pic´s shows my shoes, 46 in size. A short distance from the meeting, I found a bicycle/skateboard ramp and I could not resist taking a nap and enjoying the lovely weather

fal308 wrote:Maybe that's what I should do with my 354 Hemi

Go for it!

Excellent hi-jack Christer!

Yeah that 70's custom Chally conv is just jaw dropping, I wouldn't change a thing

The black blown Sattelite is just sinister!