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Our faithfull fan François Breton sent us this great screen capture from a little amateur film of Le Mans 1976. It shows Hershel McGriff at the wheel of the Oly Express Dodge Charger after sidelining his racecar right after the Mulsanne corner. Read more about the whole story by clicking here.
Now what is that? 2 Oly Express Chargers ? Well, yes there was also a street going version of our NASCAR racecar. It is now being repainted and will soon have another race number on its doors. Now, one for you guys: What race number and what paint scheme should it have ? Whoever suggests the best idea wins a beer and a ride in the Charger!
Picture by Pixeleye Interactive
Mike Sproule, chief instructor at Okanagan Racing Experience, sent us two great pictures of NASCAR Dodge Chargers in action on the Vancouver track. Here you see his dad, canadian racing legend Larry Sproule, in a Petty built Dodge. The one below is Ray Elder in the famous other Olympia Charger.
Continue reading "More Coke Bottle Chargers of the Northwest" »
Alain Jourdainne has recently put his private Le Mans photos from 1971 to 1981 on this great Le Mans picture site. Among those is this shot of Hershel McGriff at the wheel of the Charger. Since the car has not yet the outside rearview mirrors, it must be a picture taken during qualifying. The real Le Mans experts among you might be able to identify on which part of the track it was shot.
Courtesy Photos 24 H Le Mans dot Free
Our Charger keeps getting the fans attention. One of them, Italy's Oscar Morisini, has chosen the Oly Express as a subject for his latest artistic inspiration. As you can read on Virtual Car dot It, the Charger was the crowd's favourite at Monza. The painting will be soon shown at the famous Lugazzo Motoring Art Gallery in Brescia.
Because we usually ran Petty equipment, we ran the same set up as Richard Petty generally when at a Cup event. Petty Enterprises was our supply line for most of our Winston West NASCAR series equipment.
Continue reading "Running the good stuff supplied by Petty" »
During our trip to North Carolina, we met great people from NASCAR past and present. Among those is Billy Biscoe. Billy was on Richard Petty's pit crew, a builder at Petty Enterprises and crew chief for Hershel McGriff, with the Almost Heaven WV Charger in 1974.
Continue reading "Front suspension custom built on Petty jigs" »
John Todd from Seattle recently got in touch with us. That may not seem worth mentionning to you, unless you know who he is. John Todd was working at Precision Engines and assembled the 426 Wedge engines for the Charger in 1976. He was also a member of McGriff's pit crew at the Le Mans. You bet that we called him right after reading his e-mail. Here is what John told us about the Chargers engines!
Continue reading "Pistons took a pounding at Le Mans in 1976" »
Thanks to our Cyber-Son and CAMTECS Engineering, we had this little DVD made as a souvenir for our team members and for our sponsors. It shows the team with the car in the pits, as well as some cool inboard camera footage.
Thanks to you readers, our Oly Express Blog is getting better every day. How? Here is a great example: Dennis Garrett from Virginia sent us this official Olympia Brewery picture of Ray Elder's Dodge. Like Hershel McGriff, Ray Elder was sponsored by Tumwater's famous brewery. It is our pleasure to publish it here for all of you... or should we say, y'all ?
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