A few Mopar Nats photos 2015
Here's a few Nats photos from this year. Feel free to post yours here too! I had 3 highlights to my trip. I made it over to the show car judging tent and met Ulf (65dartcharger). What a great guy and what a beautiful car. Very nicely done! Hemidenny had a huge tent with some over the top cars. A class act for sure. Saturday afternoon there were 50+ people in the tent at any given time. Well done!
Another fun thing was I met a guy with the green Duster. I have been playing his U tube video of his 318 with a Whiplash cam. I loved the sound and the car and it was a pleasure to meet the guy. He was staying at our hotel in Heath. Well here she goes..............................
I almost have the identical pictures so I may not post them. At least not today.
I've been going to the Nats since 83 and my typical MO has been to spend most of my time in the swap meet. This year I went to the FABO tent first on Saturday and checked in with Denny. The cars were still being put in place and the quality and exclusivity of the cars under the bigtop were very impressive. Three Motown/Mopar Missile cars, the Tom Hoover 66 Hemi Coronet, the Silver Bullet, Orangewagons' ol' man's car with the Tom Hoover small block, Bill's nicely restored factory 440 69 'cuda, the red 68 SS/AA dart, the Demon, the 383 Duster, Denny's Silver Duster, 68 Hemi RR, and more.
Then I went on the other side of the track to see the show cars including Ulf's 65 Dart. Met and talked to him for about a half hour. They had judged half of his car on Friday and he was waiting to get the underside judged Saturday. The car was up on ramps so I took a bunch of pictures because my 64 Val is completely stripped on the bottom except for the front suspension so I'll use them for reference. (I had just painted my underside the night before (Friday)) I'm definitely not going to go to the extremes as Ulf did because mine will be a driver but I crawled under it on the conveniently placed carpet. Only one other car was being judged all weekend, an orange 1969 Daytona. The world famous Ulf remembered me from some of our email correspondence and he was very congenial and patient as we talked. He asked about the location of the FABO tent so I gave him directions and hopefully he found it.
I got to the swap meet about noon and as usual bought more than what I had planned.
Once again Thanks to Denny and HDK for getting the huge tent filled with some awesome cars. he even let me have a Brat later in the afternoon and it was the best I had all day!