[Keith Seymore]

Originally Posted by NeighborsComplaint

... the street-raced stock Challenger with a trailer hitch...

Your comment about "a trailer hitch" reminded me of a couple stories:

1) Dad told me one time he installed a big hitch on the back of our '65 - not for trailering but so he could pack it full of ballast.

An NHRA tech inspector caught it and told him he needed to pull that hitch off. Dad said "I can't take that off - this is my tow car!". (Narrator: It wasn't).

2) Speaking of tow cars: for a brief period dad was racing the '64 GTO (389/tripower 4 speed) and towing it with a '64 Lemans. The Lemans was a mule car we got from the Milford Proving Ground and was equipped with a 421/tripower 4 speed, and was actually a little quicker than the race car.

The interior was identical between the two cars, which dad loved, because he could get out of one and immediately be acclimatized to the other.

Anyway - if anybody started trash talking about the GTO dad would say "Bah - I can beat you with my tow car!"

And he would -

3) '68 GTO with a trailer hitch. A time before pickups and SUVs did all this light hauling and towing. The '68 was a Ram Air automatic and was just a few ticks off the B/SA record of the day.

K