First Registered Hot Rod with Chrysler HEMI Engine

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Re: First Registered Hot Rod with Chrysler HEMI Engine

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HOT ROD FRED wrote:If that's now red,I've seen it at the Knox Cruise Night a couple of times in the last 2/3 years.There was a small thread on here a few years back that I think was put up by his son :?:
Yep,it's red..., and we saw it out and about a few months back as we followed it down High Street Rd in Glen Waverley .
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Re: First Registered Hot Rod with Chrysler HEMI Engine

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Tony Hunt's Dodge pickup was built in 1973, possibly not the first Hemi but may have bee the first 392 Hemi here in a street registered hotrod? It was originally a maroon colour (will find a pic) before being repainted blue as in the below picture from the 1977 Nats.
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