How many times has their relative had a Hemi?
Does owning hemi car when i was too young & dumb to know better count ?
I bought a 68 HEMI road runner in 1978 that was a race car called white elephant since day 1 & had less than 5K miles from a guy in iowa park tx who was selling it for his brother in law up north somewhere !
It was winter & i just turned 17 & needed it like a hole in the head but after jumping car off with a diesel truck & running it down the the road i was hooked & borrowed $2500 (that was a lot of money then) from my dad & bought it !
It was a white w/ tan bench seat interior & column shift & ran like a scaled bobcat !
It sat most of that winter while i was earning money to pay my dad back for loan & got it out tagged titled & licenced for spring & summer of 79 & was undefeated that summer even againt a certain black 70 hemi charger from a nearby town !
I bet there was over 100 people there at 2am on a saturday night / sunday morning to watch us race on a 1/4 mile we had marked on highway !
BUT all in all being a teenager making diddly squat between the gas & repairs (hemi were not ez to get parts & expensive even back then) I sold it in early 1980 for $3000 to guy coming through town that lived in dallas tx & have not seen it since !
That was my only ownership of any hemi car so far in my lifetime !
I replaced it with a mint $1500 loaded out red & black 71 charger r/t w/ 440 magnum w/w/ 50K thinking it was a more dependable & better gas mileage car which it was ( a little parts wise) until i totaled it out 3 months later !
I have always wondered what happened to both of them cars over the years !
My dad sold charger to a salvage yard & back then they could care less about a title so i guess he never gave it to them ?
I did find title on 71 charger r/t awhile back & misplaced it again since !
Anyway it was probably crushed but is there a way to track a car down with old title to see if its still on road ?
Dont have much info on the Hemi road runner .. But it was called white elephant on both doors ??
Sure wish i had been able to still own either or both NoW !
Thats my Hemi story !