Herbold Racing!

My batteries are still charging. The built in indicators are showing red on both batteries, but the needle on the charger is showing at about 60%. I wonder if the batteries are near the end of their life. I took a picture of the lead plates inside the battery – maybe someone [...]

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After the failed start up I decided that the culprit were the batteries. I took them out of the car and checked the built in indicators on them and one was showing red, and the other was showing black. The label on the batteries say that a fully charged battery will show a [...]

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I decided to give my loyal blog readers a treat today, and take a video of me starting up the Duster for the first time.  But unfortunately two problems cropped up… the first problem is that I don’t have any loyal blog readers. Then the second problem is that the batteries on the Duster were [...]

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The MoPar Performance Books that I won on Ebay – Small Block ‘A’ Engines and the Chassis 9th Edition, have arrived today. I skimmed through the chassis book and it sure is chock full of useful information, and these books are definitely intended for the novice drag racer.

Last night I also won the [...]

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Finally my NHRA membership package has arrived! It included the membership card, the 2008 rule book, a NHRA member pin, a NHRA member sticker for the car, a discount coupon book with $10 discount coupons for various NHRA events, and some advertising junk mail.

Now I will finally be able to fill out the [...]

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Yes!  I managed to place the winning bids on both the Chassis and Body Factory Service Manuals for the 1973 Plymouth, Chrysler, and Imperial car models.  I very nearly lost the Body manual to someone else.  But lady luck shone on me and I should be getting the manuals in the mail in a few days!  [...]

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