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[Mikach]

With another nice picture in the article : 1981 Dodge Monaco | Project Cars Blog & Discussion at Popular Hot Rodding Magazine

[Cropper Classic]

Very cool!

[Steam McQueen]

Mikach, thank you for the excellent link! I had never seen these pics before.





It's funny though how they refer to the car as a 1981 Monaco when there was no such thing. A 1981 Dodge cop car would have been a Dippy, Dodge Diplomat, but this doesn't look like a Dippy either. Looks like one of them St. Regis type cars ... :o

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[Mikach]

you're welcome:)

Another nice story: picture to click



And finally, this one has a personal connection to me. You might recognize the good-looking guy in the center as actor Dan Aykroyd, of Saturday Night Live, Blues Brothers, and Coneheads fame. The guy on the left is former National DRAGSTER staffer Cam Benty, who went on (despite his stylish choice of apparel) to become the editor of Popular Hot Rodding magazine, and on the right is the late Pete Pesterre, a talented writer and photographer who was tragically killed in a motorcycle accident at El Mirage on Christmas Day in 1993. I knew all three of these guys through my best buddy, C. Van Tune, who also worked at PHR and took this photo. The boys had met Aykroyd when he purchased from Cam and Van an old police car that the duo had bought and fixed up to take part in the Four Ball Rally, one of the old Cannonball Run-type coast-to-coast speed runs from Boston to San Diego. "Cam saw Aykroyd somewhere about 10 years ago, and he not only remembered us, he still had the cop car," Van wrote me recently.

Interestingly, the Dodge Charger in front of which the trio is standing was a magazine project car that the PHR staffers not only entered in the 1982 Winternationals but which Benty also qualified No. 1 in the Stock field with a 16.54 pass that was 1.04 seconds under the soft Y/Stock index. That blast (much to their never-ending delight) was more than a quarter-second quicker than Hot Rod magazine's Jeff Smith, who fielded a nearly identical Plymouth Turismo in the same class. Benty lost in round one and Smith in round two.


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[2FAB]

Steam's right... that's an R-body car ('79-'81 Dodge St. Regis, '79 Chrysler Newport, '80-'81 Plymouth Gran Fury). If it's an '81 Dodge, it's a St. Regis.

Dan (not Aykroyd)