Yes the Cuda is in good company...

here are a couple of shots.

Looks like it! :wow:
We need more Vids Doug & Congratulations! :thumbsup:

Take it to oyster Bay this year. DO IT!!!! :wow: please

It will be in Oyster bay this year in fact the first nice tuesday it will be there... if I'm in town!

6spdcamaro...do I know you?

Kind of indirectly, ive met you a few times. I'm Kenny Jr. My dad's friends with dennis D and Figgy. Can't wait to see the car. :yes:

Thanks!

I'm thinkin doug needs more room...

very cool, can't find the words...
:bow: :captain: :hail: :thumbsup: :cheers: :woot:

Charlie you are 100% CORRECT... I can fit a couple more in that garage and five in my other garage... a few others stashed away locally. The village won't let me go any bigger soooo I need to find a building with in a reasonable distance

Alan and I have a storage building we share in Alabama and I'm being evicted from Bobs place in Georgia [only one there] after his latest "13" splurge at BJ scottsdale

One of my favorites, wish you lived in the Seattle area so I could see this in person. Hope to see more pics of it on this site. Congratulations, please let us know if it's ever in the great NW.

Kenny Jr does your dad have a 49 chevy...that Kenny? you Dads a friend of mine next time he's coming over to the house tell him to call and you can come with him and check out the garage!

look forward to seeing you in Oyster Bay in the Spring..

what are you building? what area do you live in?

coopercarz,so the Cuda is yours? I'd love to see it in person, I read a while back the car used to be in Florida, is that correct? Where is it now? If you don't mind me asking.

If I haven't said it yet, it's one amazing machine,:thumbsup:

Thanks...the car is on Long Island in New York

Where are you located?

is that bob's old black 69 with the turbo motor in it.i allways wondered where it ended up. love that car.and congrats on getting the cuda

Ahh.. So you're the proud owner of that beast.Congrats!

I'm in Jacksonville Florida.

Hopefully one day I get to see it .Everytime I look at pics of that car ,I get all fired up to work on my 71 Cuda.

Please post more pics of that bad boy!

Nope thats a different Kenny, my dad has the bright yellow 31 ford sedan, and the ice cream truck.
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OK, we were at Pocono GG when you and you Dad were talking about the camaro project! Edwards! now I remember you...good to have young guys in the hobby!

Yep thats me :thumbsup: . Congratulations on the 'Cuda. Dying to see the car in person. I can imagine pictures won't do it justice.

Ive got the perfect nova for you! :unibrow: haha, excellent collection. Saw your ridler winner last yr at autorama. :hail:

OK I just wanted to step in and..... make you guys jealous. The car is that nice in person, lol. Bob lives about 45 minutes from me so I'd get to see it when he brought it out to Year One events. If you know it will be at a show and you're thinking of attending, just go. It's worth the time even if you only get 5 minutes with it. Flip through the build pictures too if the book is there. The metal work that was done is ridiculous. Great car and I'm so happy I got to see it while it was still local.

Battle Axe

http://www.popularhotrodding.com/fea...aro/index.html

and not turboed. Built by Alan Johnson as well. I see a trend :)

You may be thinking of the other Bob Johnson. I believe his black 69 was turbo charged. twins if I am not mistaken. His was a slightly different car on the outside though. I want to say his was a convertible but that doesn't seem right.

Yes you are correct that is Battle Axe... Ive owned it many years...that's a really fun car!!!

for the right number I might part with it?

That is a great story. Very cool how neither Alan and Bob knew about it either. :)

That old saying 'its the thought that counts' at the end of the day, that's what really matters when gifts are given. Obviously a lot of thought went into your wife's gift Doug. :thumbsup:

That car is so cool. I'm the one who named it Battle Axe. I've always liked it.

Doug, it may have you been you driving it at the time, but I remember a few years ago at Columbus Goodguys I heard something pretty mean sounding at the hotel next door and walked over just in time to see the end of the Battle Axe doing a nasty ass burnout in the back of the hotel parking lot - and then quickly parking - of course.

Did I already say that it sounds NASTY! Oh yeah, cuz it does!

Considering this is what Doug does for fun, I'd bet you're right, Brandon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PsY2...eature=related

:)

I confess it was me! Ive done a few in that parking lot over the years...

Great surprise gift Doug. It fits well with you collection.
So whats next on your car agenda. Another camaro?

I've got several rust free cars stored...camaros and 32 fords Alan and I are kicking around a few ideas...

Would you bring G-Force to the Optima Challenge if invited?

That is a hell of a question!

Why? :_paranoid

I know they would most probably extend an invitation... I'd rather follow the trend for that event and build a really small light weight car to compete for the win! Alan, Bob and I have discussed it already. I dont know that it fits into Alans shop schedule for this year... we will see?

What a surprise to have this car back in the family after being stashed away in a private collection for all this time. I am sure Doug was more surprised than I was. I know he will enjoy it ,use it, and treat it as it was built to be. It needs it's legs stretched on occasion, not locked up in the garage all the time.

The turbo black 69 Camaro was "The Real" Bob Johnson..lol..He lives near Dallas Ga. His had an all aluminum BIG block with twin turbos..and an AUTOMATIC..rode him like a rented mule over that. He got the name The REAL when he showed up at SEMA several years ago with his body shop work shirt on that had his name on it..Bob Johnson..he had a seamstress sew The Real over his name..pretty damn funny..he sold his 69 to Gary Benedict from Massachuttes and sometimes Daytona Beach, Fla. haven't seen Gary in awhile so I don't know what happened to it. Everyone got the two cars mixed up.. because that imitating The Real copied my car, and even copied my name. lol.. i sent him a check for a commission on a car he helped me sell. His wife looked at it and couldn't believe that he had even immitated my damn signature. She said I could forge his check or vice versa..i have been asked if he's my son..I told them he came from BET Bob Johnson..That's the black guy that owns Black Entertainment Television..

i could see my wife buying me a car. kinda like me buying her a gift for her Birthday or Christmas or blah blah blah..We both see something we want, we buy it..so everyday is a birthday, christmas or whatever. She doesn't want anything I pick out so I gave up years ago. She turned 62 on Feb 13. It was snowing outside but that didn't stop her from going shopping and buying herself a Cartier Ring and Cartier Bracelet that she had been eyeing. She was even more excited when she found out the bracelet had been made in the first year (1970) they made this style bracelet..1970 also happens to be my oldest daughter's birth year..someone asked me what my wife thought about me going back to Bonneville after the chute failure that made me crash and destroyed my car. She told me if I was going out there and kill myself, then to please get rid of all these cars and junk around here...She didn't want to have to deal with it after I was gone..lol..i sent Doug an email joke...I told Doug this reminded me of my wife and myself. A man is on his deathbed. just barely hanging onto life. He smelled something cooking and it was Chocolate Chip Cookies..His favorite thing in the world was his wife's homemade Chocolate Chip Cookies..He had a small burst of energy and crawled out of the bed and down the hall on all fours..He reached up on the table from the floor and tried to get a cookie. His wife hit him on the back of the hand with a spatula. She said git yo hands off dem...They's for the funeral..

Is this you Scott? did something happen to your wagon at The Optima Challenge? Alan is about to get my 58 Caballero Wagon ready to drive..Got Evod making me a set of one offs for it..kinda mimicking a 59 Buick hub cap..should be pretty neat if it comes out like I envision..i bought Charlie Lilliards 32 3 window coupe at Barrett Jackson. It's a neat little car..AND it was CELEBRITY OWNED>>lol..

The ol Camaro did sound pretty good. That's why I just can't get into a turbo motor for the street. i just gotta have a hot rod sound like a hot rod. Hard to get a turbo motor sounding anything like a nasty cammed up motor with some compression. Alan and I both are into the sound. That 69 that Alan built for Nathan Powell was at Columbus this past year and made the final 5 for SMOY. ALan couldn't make it and neither could Nathan so they wanted me to drive it..Now that was one more nasty sounding beast too. Everytime I would pull up to someone, you'd see them slink down in their seat. That Carbon on Carbon Tilton clutch set-up makes em rev like an air wrench.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-__Tm1tgi4
That does sound pretty nasty... in a good way :thumbsup:

Welcome to Lat-g Bob. I was sad to hear the XXXLR was wrecked but glad you walked away. Think Doug will let you drive his Cuda some time? I know you've got to be missing it a little.