Racing – BigBlockMopar

Hurst Racing Tires on the ’60-NY

February 6, 2011 BigBlockMopar 0

Mounted the Hurst racing Tires on the ’60 New Yorker today. I wonder how they will hold up.

Vintage style Hurst Whitewall pie-crust Racing Tires with Astro Supremes on 1960 Chrysler NewYorker

Vintage style Hurst Racing Tires on Astro Supremes

August 21, 2010 BigBlockMopar 0

Here are some pic of the Vintage style Hurst Racing whitewall Tires mounted on a set of Astro Supreme wheels. I think this captures the old style dragtire and cool look very well. The wheels [more … ]

Hurst Racing Tires Dragradials

March 26, 2010 BigBlockMopar 0

For the ’60 Chrysler I had some special dragradials made by Hurst Racing Tires in California. They use a brand new tire on which they vulcanise a vintage style tireshape in a soft rubbercompound, perfectly [more … ]

For Sale: 1965 Chrysler 300 convertible

1965 Chrysler 300 convertible. Asking €25.000 Located near Rotterdam, The Netherlands. More info & pics here: 1965 Chrysler 300 convertible
New torsion bars from Sway-A-Way

Recently I ordered a pair of new 1.08″ diameter torsion bars from Sway-A-Way for my ’73 Dodge Dart. These are to replace the current 1″ diameter torsion bars from Just Suspension. The 1″ bars are [more … ]
The Perfect Garage-helper?

I think I found myself a perfect garage-help to hold the laptop while I’m tuning my MegaSquirt … setup on the car… ):o)
Autumn had set in

Autumn had really set in, which I tried to capture with this photo of leaves and raindrops on the trunk and rear fender of the ’60 Chrysler New Yorker and a row of trees with [more … ]
1973 Dodge Dart trunk and hood paint

Now the roof was sealed and painted, it was time to paint the rest of the horizontal panels on the car. The existing dull paint was sanded lightly and degreased thoroughly before a layer of [more … ]
1973 Dart Painted roof

After the primer had settled and dried, the roof got painted gloss black. Because of the nice, vinyl-like structure of the primer, the finish of the roof in black was to my liking. The roof [more … ]
Dodge Dart exterior maintenance

I opted to wrap the sides of the Dart with vinylwrap. But in order to do this ‘neatly’, the sheetmetal had to be straightened a bit and any bumps and dips smoothed out. One thing [more … ]
Daily driver-duty: 1960 Chrysler New Yorker

As my regular daily driver, the ’73 Dodge Dart, is in the garage for its vinlytop removal and roof-maintainance, I resorted to using my next-best daily driver-candidate, the 1960 Chrysler New Yorker. So for over [more … ]
Scrapers carmeeting at Rozenburg

The Scrapers carclub organised a nice little car-meeting at the land’s end at Rozenburg. This unique location is being almost completely surrounded by water. I brought along my 1960 Chrysler NewYorker to the meeting.
1957 Chrysler – Tire failure

During a trip to the “King Cruise” car-meeting, I got a sense there was something wrong on the 1957 Chrysler I was driving. It felt like a wheel was ‘getting’ out of balance and I [more … ]