The Virginia Muscle Car
(Muscle Cars of the Past, Present, and Future)
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This site reflects many personal experiences and opinions on Muscle Cars
and related issues.
Years ago, I sent an email to an ole Annandale High friend of mine, Bill,
describing an incident that happened after we graduated from Annandale
High, (geeze, we graduated in 1967). The incident involved when we were
working on a 55 Nomad. We enjoyed recalling memories of our cars,
friends, and families. Bill's Uncle Sherman is in the Hotrod Hall of Fame
and helped us to understand how to modify cars and to understand more
about drag racing and the new technologies developing at the time. On
Sherman's WEBpage there is a great link to a machinest, Ken Ellison,
who details Sherman's contributions to drag racing.
Sherman's WEBpage
(Image provided by Photographer Tim Beard)
Bill and I continued to exchange emails
recollecting the ole Annandale days; however, the recollections were not
only about the time during high school but were more about what happened after
Annandale High.
Then, we developed WEBpages from these emails for others to enjoy too. In addition,
Andy (our other good Annandale bud and life long friend), and others have
since expanded
this WEBsite's content beyond these original emails with pictures, vehicle
descriptions, and
recollections.
Over the years, Andy really never stopped collecting/rebuilding muscle
and classic cars. I started collecting/rebuilding muscle/classic cars again in
1990 when Andy help me pick out a 4-speed 76 Stingray. Today Andy has
some of the most desirable
muscle car classics ... as does Bill now. And many of our good friends have also
started to "re-collect" and add descriptions of their cars and stories on this
WEBsite. Immediately below, are several example Muscle Car/Classic Car entries
and further below are links to additional entries and more WEBsite details.
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As a forth example of a Northern Virginia muscle car builder,
but contemporary, Tony has completed this great looking
65 Chevelle ... and no doubt is on to other muscle cars by now.
With Tony it is not the end result that is imporant, it is the journey.
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As a fifth example of a Northern Virginia muscle car builder from
the 1960s, Butch has completed his award winning 1963 427
Ford Galaxie 500 XL (2dr ht). Stop by and see his and
his son's Muscle cars, as well as all their dealship vehicles.
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As a seventh example of a Virginia/SC musclecar builder
from the 60s, Steve has aquired this 2015 Challenger
and he feels this particular model herald back to
the 70-74 models. He had two of these earlier years.
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For additional Annandaler cars/people fun stuff, visit another WEBsite:
www.annandale1963.com The
annandale1963.com site was primarily developed and is maintained by Jerry
Mullins. He graduated from Annandale four years before I did and is older
... :). He was also Annandale's first State Wrestling Champion, later a
Vietnam Veteran, and still later an earth scientist heading up the U.S.
Geological Survey's Polar Program. I had helped Jerry with Research
Program issues when I worked in Mapping/Geography HQ Office and
evidentually ended up working for him and our boss, the Chief of Eastern
Geographic Science Center. I retired in 2008, and yes there is the good life
after you retire.
(Jerry's Antique Classic 84 Eldorado)
We have the below links to WEBpages describing our cars (both recent and past).
If you recall an incident relating to a musclecar/classic car or have a
picture you would like to share with others, let us know.~Bob
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These pages are the private property of a few ole hotrodders. The opinions expressed here are our own.
We also have links to commercial sites for information purposes; for example, should you
need a part for your muscle car, you can go to our "Muscle Car Links WEBpage" and sort through the more
popular sellers of muscle car parts - we are not reimbursed for a referal.
(System Backups to CDROM are frequently made.)
In addition, TheVAmusclecar.com WEBsite WEBpages were manually coded for Internet
Explorer; however, they may also work with other browsers ...
Please address questions and comments to:
rgcwork@yahoo.com
Background music is "Surfin Safari" originally sung by The Beach Boys and
rerendered by Still Surfing (http://www.stillsurfin.com/).
BTW they have a great CD you can get on this WEBsite This is the kind of good music we
listen to when we tooled around in our Nomads ...long long time ago ... We now
listen to this CD in our TVMCs of today. ~Andy
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