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Dodge Teases the 2019 Challenger SRT Hellcat and 2019 Charger Dodge has released a teaser image and some information regarding the upcoming 2019 Challenger SRT Hellcat which will reach back into Dodge’s 100plus-year history and introduce a new dual-snorkel hood on Hellcat models. This pays homage to the distinctive Mopar design themes for some of its most famous muscle cars of the past. The new, fully functional hood is much like the ones found in the 1960s and 1970s but with a new, modern interpretation that provides an even more aggressive look and provides maximum air intake to the supercharged V8 that propels the Hellcat. There has been some speculation that this could mean an increase on the power derived from the supercharged 6.2L but no other information will be shared until sometime this summer, says Dodge. We will be sure to keep you posted as information is released. Also released recently by Dodge is a teaser image of the revamped Dodge Charger Performance lineup for 2019 which includes upgrades inside and out. Among the changes, Dodge says, are an all-new grille design which will extend the aggressive front end to accentuate visual width. No other information has yet been released and as with the 2019 Hellcat, Dodge says more information will be revealed this summer.
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here are very few Carnuts on this planet that do not know of Carroll Shelby and his amazing influence on our car culture. Assembling the cars using chassis supplied from AC Cars in England, it is a true modern David-versus-Goliath story. Flushed with success after taking a Ford V8 and stuffing it into the small British sports car, Shelby was approached to make the new Mustang more of an enthusiast car. Shelby joked about the Mustang being a secretary’s car, but took the challenge. It seems everywhere we go now, we see the new Ford GT500s and to a lesser degree GT350s that are built by a modern version of Shelby American at its Las Vegas facility. But the original GT350s and GT500s were built in extremely small numbers, and
back in the ‘60s, they were much more elusive. I have been told that no 1965 GT350s were sold new through the dealer network in Canada. Fogg Motors in New Westminster, B.C. sold two new white GT350s in 1966. So the actual fact of owning one of these cars is always an interesting story. John Yamamoto is no stranger to the allure of the magical cars of Carroll Shelby, but he certainly scored big on one of the last 1967 GT350s Fogg Motors in New Westminster sold. Yamamoto’s other Shelby is a 1969 GT350 convertible he bought out of San Juan Capistrano for his 50th birthday. When it was time to buy his second Shelby, the whole of North America was scoured for the correct car. He wanted a 1967 fourspeed model, since for 1968 the production was no longer at Shelby American’s Los Angeles facility, but at A. O. Smith near Dearborn. Starting the search in 2014 with no success finding the right car, in 2016 Yamamoto asked a fellow he knew, if he wanted to sell his GT350. He knew Glen Hobbis of Cap’s Bicycles had a car that fit the bill, and after making Yamamoto make an offer, he rejected it as too low. Another sweeter offer was also rejected before Yamamoto asked what it would take for the car to be sold. The $100,000 price was a bit too high, so Yamamoto left without his prized car. After stewing it over for a couple of months, he called Hobbis and bought the car. The original owner was Garth Jackson, and he remembers wanting a Shelby and hearing
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ton cars, and one prototype) compared to just over 2,000 GT500s. In September of 1967, Fogg Motors had two Acapulco Blue GT350s, one an automatic and one a four-speed. Of course, Jackson wanted the three-pedal version and he remembers paying just over $5,000. His car was a stripe delete car, although technically they all were, as the stripes were painted at the various Shelby Dealers upon delivery. Being a later build meant the grille-mounted highbeam headlights were spaced far apart, or an “Outboard Headlight” car to Shelby enthusiasts. Of the 56 Acapulco blue with four-speed GT350s built, only 11 had wheel covers as opposed to aluminum alloy wheels. The car had Fogg only had two left, so he went down to the New Westminster an AM radio , the standard deluxe interior and all the tricks Shelby location that had earned a reputation for racing on Sunday and selling American did to a K-Code Mustang to make it a GT-350. on Monday. Garth Jackson also was no stranger to racing locally, as he was a Competition Chairman and sometime Tech Inspector at the These included adding a high-rise manifold and one 715-cfm HolWestwood track and had raced an Austin-Healey at the Abbotsford ley four-barrel for an improved output of 306 horsepower. They Airport before Westwood was built. He was a member of the Sports also used finned aluminum “Cobra” valve covers. Still claiming Car Club of B.C. and really wanted a Shelby. He traded his factory- 306 hp, the 1967 GT 350 used the high-performance K-Code ordered 1965 Chevy Malibu SS four-speed convertible. cast-iron exhaust manifolds instead of the 1966 tubular headers. Shelby American had assembled 1,175 GT350s in 1967 (including The new bigger, longer, heavier (by 300 lb) and more comfortable 35 Paxton-supercharged production cars, four dealer-installed Pax- 1967 Mustang worked well for Shelby, who realized his market was
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more the young hip professionals than the street racing kids. Much of the styling was done through a creative use of fibreglass, including the front end being three inches longer, a correspondingly longer hood with a dual opening scoop, the integral kicked-up rear decklid incorporating a spoiler, and Cougar sequential taillights. The 1967 tail lights did not use the diecast chrome covering trim of the Cougar tail lights, and then A. O. Smith switched to 1965 Thunderbird tail lights for 1968 Shelbys, complete with the chrome trim. The Shelby cars came standard with the deluxe interior with aluminum trim, a special woodgrain steering wheel, and a roll bar with inertia-reel shoulder harness seatbelts. Shelby included a 140-mph speedometer and 8,000-rpm tach. The Rally-pac guages that hugged the steering column on the 1966 Mustang were turned upside down and mounted under the dash for the 1967 Shelby. It housed an ammeter and oil pressure gauge, and this car also has a clock between the speedo and tach. The suspension started as the competition suspension from Ford and was tweaked a bit, using progressive-rate springs and a larger front sway bar, lowering the front end one inch. It weighed only 3,360 lbs., compared to a 2017 Mustang Shelby GT350 weighing in at 3662 lbs. but the 2017 has many more safety components, structural rigidity and air conditioning, etc. Jackson lived on the Westside of Vancouver; he worked as a bookkeeper for a furniture company and drove the car as his daily driver for seven years. He recalls going into Fogg Motors because his fibreglass hood was cracking. They came out 12 MUSCLE CAR PLUS MAGAZINE JUNE/JULY 2018
tion property and decided to buy a Pinto Station Wagon to drive instead of Mr Shelby’s magical machine! After a decade in storage and with the imminent sale of his Mother’s house, the Realtor mentioned the car to Martin Lammers, who ran a body shop in Port Coquitlam. He bought the car to restore and the car’s engine would not turn over, necessitating a rebuild. The car was partially dismantled and then it was decided just to give it a proper paint job. There was one small rust spot in the rear quarter panel and the interior was so good he only had to re-dye the carpets. The rest of the interior is original. The body shop had never registered the car, as they were planning on “Curbing” it. from the back of the parts department with a hood for a GT500 with air conditioning, with the extra louvres. They said they knew it was not the right hood, but would he take it anyways? So that is why this car is the only 1967 GT350 to properly wear an A/C GT500 hood! The Shelby even went on two trips to Winnipeg to visit family. The car was never raced other than a few traffic light “Winternationals.” The car was still a fully functioning car when it was put into storage in the garage behind his Mother’s house in Vancouver in the mid ‘70s. The car was not put in the garage to have an engine rebuilt or maybe some bodywork; that would have been acceptable. What actually happened is tantamount to sacrilege - Jackson bought a vaca-
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This is when Glen Hobbis bought the car before it was completed, and became the “second” owner. It had 94.000 miles on her when Hobbis bought it in the mid 1980s, and he had the car for three decades. Yamamoto considers himself lucky to have such a special car and is a member of the local Shelby club. He recently purchased
a set of Kelsey-Hayes five-spoke Magstar wheels for the car, as the thought of losing the irreplaceable hubcaps was too much to think about. The car is fully sorted out and a joy to drive. The lack of air conditioning is not a problem in the Lower Mainland’s moderate climate, but maybe the trips to the interior or any more trips to Winnipeg will not be during the middle of summer. The local Shelby Club is very active and Yamamoto will be busy showing off his new ride for quite some time...and maybe a few red light “Winternationals” of his own!
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n researching the Shelby Dealer network in Canada, I was surprised at the lack of info available. I found references for Fogg Motors of course, but enthusiasts have told me there was Healey Ford in Edmonton, Metro Ford in Calgary, Frontier Motor sales in Niagara Falls and a dealer in Winnipeg. I found no info on those, but found Rankin Ford was in London, Ontario. Rankin apparently only sold twenty Shelbys, and most of those were GT500 KRs. Dominion Motors was located on Third Avenue in downtown Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, and only sold Shelbys for one year. One 1967 GT350 and 14 1968 Shelbys including one GT500 KR that was actually used as a demonstrator before being sold. Another big racing dealership was Sud Ford in Quebec. Sud, of course French for “South,” was one of Canada’s largest Ford dealers. It was located in Longueuil, Quebec and almost half of the pics showing Sud Ford-supplied cars showed dirty Shelbys in the snow. They also ran an extensive race program of Shelbys and Fords and hosted high-performance clinics.
well as winning 19 out of 21 races in the Canadian Championship driving his Lotus 23B. Ford recognized the talent and offered him a one-race contract in the first Ford GT 40, GT40P/1000. He and his co-driver Jean Ouellette were part of the two-car team by Canadian privateer, Comstock Racing, at Sebring, Florida. After Ouellette pitted, McLean went out and although there were varying Fogg Motors was where my parents bought their cars, and I got to accounts, he crashed and hit a power pole and died at the scene. wander around the cool “Fogg’s High Performance Parts Centre.” Fogg Motors sponsored a 1965 Mustang Coupe driven by the very Fogg Motors continued to race and took on John Hall, who was a capable Bob McLean who, after leaving his native Australia, moved Canadian Midget Racing Champion, and had him race, starting in around the globe before settling in Western Canada. McLean raced 1966. They also sponsored a 1967 Fairlane GT drag car, campaigned his MGA in the first race at the newly-built Westwood Mountain High by Bob Nottingham. Fogg Motors even got a 1965 Shelby Competition racetrack. model GT 350R 5R533 in March of 1967 and sold it to Brown Brothers Ford, who raced it with Weber carbs. John Hall raced for Fogg Motors A rare combination of talent and hard work allowed McLean to into the ‘70s and won the Canadian/Oregon/Washington Amateur win local races in the Fogg Motors race-prepared Mustang, as Championship in 1968 driving a 1968 Mustang Notchback. 16 MUSCLE CAR PLUS MAGAZINE JUNE/JULY 2018
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Hot Nite in the City On August 11th and 12th, thirteen city blocks in downtown Kamloops, B.C. will be closed off to allow over 500 Street Rods, Customs, Muscle Cars, and all sorts of other specialty vehicles to line the streets for the 24th annual Hot Nite In The City Show-n-Shine! The event begins Friday afternoon with the 15th annual A&W-sponsored Poker Run, while the Show & Shine itself goes 9:00 am – 5:00 pm Saturday, with the Ribs and Rods Show and Shine in Riverside Park on the Sunday in support of the Rotary Rib Fest. Hot Nite In The City is a family fun event that is enjoyed by over 30,000 people. For all the details, go to www.hotniteinthecity.com. Ladner Village Quilt Walk & Classic Car Show The 14th Annual Ladner Business Association’s Quilt Walk & Classic Car Show, a unique event that combines over 400 vehicles on the streets of Ladner, B.C., and 100 quilts in the adjoining shop windows, will be held on Sunday, August 19 from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm. Thousands of spectators come out to enjoy the unusual combination of 20 classes of vehicles and 3 categories of quilts for judging, along with food trucks, retro vendors and featured performers the Lounge Hounds with guest Ben Klein as Elvis, all on the streets of historic Ladner Village. Go to www.ladnerbusiness.com for info.
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Downtown PoCo Car Show Port Coquitlam, B.C. will host its 14th annual Metro Ford Downtown PoCo Car Show on Sunday, August 19th, from 10:00 am - 6:00 pm. This event has grown into one of B.C.’s most anticipated, and largest, specialty car events, with hundreds of vehicles and 70,000 spectators taking over the main downtown streets of PoCo. There will also be vendor displays, children’s activities, live entertainment, beer gardens, great food, workshops, and more. For more info, go to pococarshow.ca. Langley Good Times Cruise-In One of the must-see events of the B.C. cruising season is the 21st Annual Langley Good Times Cruise-In on Saturday September 8, with thousands of specialty vehicles lining many blocks of downtown Aldergrove in the Township of Langley, in what is one of the largest such shows in North America, in the heart of the collector car area of B.C. A swap meet and car corral goes the next day, Sunday, September 9. As always, several charities are the recipients of the funds raised through the show, and further details can be found at www.langleycruise-in.com.
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FEATURE: 1949 CUSTOM CADILLAC PICKUP
Eye-Popper
This Cadillac truck was a custom bike hauler An early ‘50s custom shop stretched the chassis a foot and mated Caddy, GMC and Olds body parts to create a custom motorcycle hauler. Story and photos by John Gunnell
tried to bargain on the price, the man said he had been “insulted” and started to walk away. Then, Richie said he’d pay the price, but hen Horace Greeley wrote “Go West, young man, Go West” asked if the car was a genuine relic from the old days. he was talking about taking advantage of the nation’s westward expansion for farming and getting away from Eastern poverty “You just insulted me again,” was the reaction. So, it took a little more and unemployment. He wasn’t talking about hunting for Ol’ Skool talking to put the deal together. When it was done, Clyne asked for cars—like Richie Clyne’s custom motorcycle hauler—but maybe he the keys. “You can’t have it today,” the seller informed him. “It has should have been. Only in the dry, sunny west would you find an to be in the parade on Saturday.” authentic custom “Cadillac pickup truck” – originally built in 1952 After a bit more bargaining, Clyne found out the two men shared -- still sitting by the side of the road. a mutual friend who was a car collector. The friend promised the Clyne was heading through the desert, back to his office at the Auto seller a Model T Ford for the parade on Saturday, so the papers Collections in Las Vegas, when the ’49 Caddy “roadside attraction” were signed and the Caddy lit out for Las Vegas. stopped him in his tracks. It belonged to a local man who was a big fish in his little pond; it was for sale and Clyne wanted it. When he The new acquisition wasn’t just any 1949 Caddy. It was a Cadillac pickup truck that Jack Warner and Walt Ball built. They were BSA motorcycle dealers from Portland, In this view you can clearly see the Oregon, and they wanted something cool to haul GMC truck cab shape. Oldsmobile their bikes to various racing meets throughout the doors fit this contour best and required country. only a 1-1/2 in. clip to mate up. Standard trucks of the day weren’t very good for moving motorcycles around, so the dealers wanted something that was heavy enough to handle the bikes, but also smoother riding so the fork tubes of the bike wouldn’t spring as much and bounce the BSAs around. They knew it wouldn’t hurt sales to have something that was different to attract attention.
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Warner and Ball found a wrecked 1949 Series 62 Cadillac sedan to buy. They removed unneeded body panels and stretched the chassis 12 inches. Then, they put the Cadillac front end sheet metal back on and mated the cab of a contemporary GMC pickup with the Cadillac hood, front fenders, cowl and grille. According to Clyne, an early custom car shop did the actual work. 34 MUSCLE CAR PLUS MAGAZINE JUNE/JULY 2018
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It turned out that Oldsmobile doors worked perfectly after the customizer made a 1-1/2 inch cut in them. The doors were lettered with “American-British Cycles: BSA Motorcycles” and carry the names of Warner and Ball and phone number of their Portland business. (This was in pre-Internet days of course, so there was no Website, You Tube or Facebook information). A GMC pickup—probably the same one the panels came from—donated its cargo bed. Since there was some open space between the Cadillac rear fenders and the truck bed, the fabricators added a “side-mounted” spare tire on each side. These sat on small running boards. The Caddy rear bumper guards were modified to fold down, as was the license plate holder. With these parts in their lowered position, the tailgate of the Caddy pickup could be lowered flat.
Alligator-style Caddy hood lifts to reveal a nicely detailed engine bay. Air conditioning was fitted to the car to make cruises through desert more tolerable, but all of the Ol Skool equipment from ’52 was retained.
The low height of the Caddy made for a low riding truck, which eased the job of loading and unloading motorcycles. Three British-made BSAs could be carried in the bed in a pinch, with the centre one facing the opposite direction from the other two. British bikes aren’t Harleys, but to carry the weight of as many as three machines, the Caddy’s rear leaf springs had to be beefed by adding two additional leaves on each side.
rework, the Caddy wears six “gangster whitewall” tires with big white stripes.
The Caddy’s interior features a Chariot Red steering wheel and dash (with burled wood trim), Hydra-Matic Drive, a black leather bench seat and matching carpets. The 110-mph ‘49 Caddy speedometer and all of the other gauges are the originals. Naturally, the Caddy carries a Naturally, a “full race” rebuild was done to the Caddy V8, which has vintage BSA motorcycle strapped to the bed for authenticity. finned Offenhauser chrome valve covers, an Edelbrock tri-power manifold and triple Rayfield two-barrel carburetors. A set of Smitty In the day, the custom pickup generated much-needed publicity for mufflers gives the Caddy engine a sweet sound when its cruising the two motorcycle dealers, who were trying to push British bikes in a market dominated by Indians and Harleys. It made the pages of through the desert. the June 1952 issue of Hop Up magazine which revealed that the Clyne had the car refinished in a colour that closely matches the vin- original custom fabrication work on the Caddy took eight months and tage Oldsmobile Chariot Red lacquer that the custom shop squirted cost $5,000. The magazine said that the car was a “Highway Jewel” on it over 60 years ago. And as was the case following the original and an “Eye-Popper.” It still is today! Car has dual exhausts with spent gases flowing out through two Smitty mufflers. Tags read “1949CAD” so rubber-neckers know what they’re looking at.
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of custom mods, and a Dodge Charger mounted on a Viper platform with an 11-in.-wide body modification. These, and many of the other ongoing projects, are just another example of a shop that can do anything from fully customized builds on modern chassis, to complete restorations and everything in between. Travis and his team are excited about the future and the kinds of builds they can take on, and look forward to creating many more amazing vehicles for their customers. One notable such vehicle that is nearing the finishing stages is a full Resto-Mod 1970 Chevelle that was not at the shop during our visit but, after taking a look at artist’s renderings, is sure to make some hay in the local car community. Travis hopes that if all goes well, he will be able to showcase the car at the upcoming 2018 SEMA show, which is the ideal platform to show off the kind of top quality work he and his team can do. For the latest info on Sharp Touch or to get in touch with them to talk about a possible project, look them up on Facebook or give them a call at 604-961-8582.
of that location for the next 12 years, where they produced a number of memorable cars including five that were featured in magazines. As the business continued to grow, Travis decided to expand once again and moved into the current location in 2015, and expanded even further last year when he scooped up another shop down the street from the main location, specifically for fabrication work. Travis currently employs a staff of eight guys who are all extremely talented, and above all else ‘car guys,’ which really shines through in the finished products, as they all share the same level of passion and detail in creating the best possible product they can. After talking with Travis, it became immediately clear that Sharp Touch is one of those shops which really can handle anything and everything
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Flowtech Announces Expansion of Late Model Axle-Back Exhaust Line Flowtech has announced that they are releasing eight new axle-back exhaust systems, including those for the 2005-09 Mustang V6, 2011-2014 Mustang V6, 201314 Mustang GT, Shelby GT500 V8, 2015-17 Mustang all engines, 2016-18 Camaro 6.2L, 2.0L and 3.6L. All examples feature dual-wall exhaust tips and most have polished stainless steel, high-flow, straight-through, mandrel-bent construction that will deliver an aggressive sound without that annoying drone. The advanced tube geometry of these systems ensures maximum ground clearance and an easy installation. For more information please go to www.holley.com
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READERS RIDES 1955 Ford F100
Geoff Smith’s beautiful 1955 Ford F100 pickup was built by Stone’s Speed Shop in Chilliwack, B.C. and boasts a Dart small-block 427 engine with an 8-71 BDS blower that makes a very impressive 706 horsepower and 690 lb-ft of torque, and is paired to a TCI-built Ford AOD transmission. Inside features a hand-fabricated metal console, a modified dash with a relocated gauge cluster, touchscreen GPS, Dakota digital gauges, push-button electric e-brake and exhaust cut-outs, plus all-Italian leather upholstery done by Derek Friesen at Custom Creations. Other notable features include a 9-in. rear-end with a wave-trac posi and 3.73 gears, adjustable coilovers all around, Mickey Thompson Super Sport tires and four-wheel disc brakes with sequential LED brake lights.
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