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65_Sat · 02-26-2007, 12:20 AM

Hello, my name is Tom I used to race at Banshee RD, and Hall Street back in the early 70's in st louis. I had a 440 6pack motor out of a charger with an edlebrock highrise, Holley 850CFM carb, $900 worth of headwork. back in 1971 I ran a 12.35 at gateway on bias ply tires on a mallory dual points dist, through a stock tq converter. And my car looked like this:

Well, the car got wrecked and a week after I found another 65 satellite with the same interior and factory ac, I Drove it around til 77' and parked it until 1997 when I started restoring the car. Back in 83', when my son Ryan was born, I stripped the wrecked car and stored all those parts so I had basically two of everything in near mint condition. So after 10 years, of working on it on weekends and taking my time and doing everything right (I even sandblasted the entire bottom of the car in my garage in suburbia and POR-15'd it) I had the car on a rotisory[sp] so I could rotate the car on its axis 360 degrees to get to everything. Well last weekend the monster mopar finally started up. and the car was finished. heres a video and some pictures I took tonite. enjoy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pT_KJcUbUKY

heres the video of the first startup last weekend. the one of it idling a few days ago will be up shortly.

02-26-2007, 12:20 AM	#1 (permalink)
65_Sat Junior Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 13	Hello just finished the restoration of my 1965 Satellite and am new here. Hello, my name is Tom I used to race at Banshee RD, and Hall Street back in the early 70's in st louis. I had a 440 6pack motor out of a charger with an edlebrock highrise, Holley 850CFM carb, $900 worth of headwork. back in 1971 I ran a 12.35 at gateway on bias ply tires on a mallory dual points dist, through a stock tq converter. And my car looked like this: Well, the car got wrecked and a week after I found another 65 satellite with the same interior and factory ac, I Drove it around til 77' and parked it until 1997 when I started restoring the car. Back in 83', when my son Ryan was born, I stripped the wrecked car and stored all those parts so I had basically two of everything in near mint condition. So after 10 years, of working on it on weekends and taking my time and doing everything right (I even sandblasted the entire bottom of the car in my garage in suburbia and POR-15'd it) I had the car on a rotisory[sp] so I could rotate the car on its axis 360 degrees to get to everything. Well last weekend the monster mopar finally started up. and the car was finished. heres a video and some pictures I took tonite. enjoy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pT_KJcUbUKY heres the video of the first startup last weekend. the one of it idling a few days ago will be up shortly.