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Originally Posted by Keith Seymore
Our '63 SD Catalina, aluminum front end, four speed car - was pretty much the family car. Dad would race it and if need be, swap the rear gears so they could drive it from Michigan "down home" to Missouri and back. They made that trip a couple times in that car.
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In fact, Mike Noun was kind enough to post some video on Youtube of this car for me. You can see it here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mj0M4DQhXKE
It just occurred to me that these home movies were made in SE Missouri, roughly 700 miles away from home.
I believe Dad made a couple of passes at George Ray's dragstrip while they were down there.
K
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