b'SincegettingthecartoOhio,Aaronsbeenplace of the faded original red.After that, it was off to Ray Bartons, where showing it as much as he can, cruising with it,theHemiandtheentiredrivetrain weregonethroughinsideandout, sparingly,becauseitstillhasonly35,800returning the car back to stone stock, as delivered, 1966 specs for the first time since 1966.It took three years originalmilesontheclock.Amazingly,theof pretty darned intense work, but at the end of it all, The Brow looked original numbers matching engine and trans- just as it did when Rocky was street racing it in the summer of 1966, only mission are still in place. its a lot quieter now and idles a bit moresmoothly.Raytookthe never drove the Hemi Plymouth andinducted into the Mopar Drag RacingBelvederetoCruisingtheCoastin heneverevenbotheredhavingtheHall of Fame, and hes been a long- Biloxi as soon as it was finished, won titletransferreduntilhedecidedtotimefriendofBigDaddyDonhisclass,attendedafewmorecar sell it in 1978!A local Mopar fanatic,Garlits,soheknewagoodthingshowswithitand,until2018,he namedPhillipConklin,hadlongwhen he saw it.Ray traded his 71racked up an impressive number of heard about the car, finally found it,ChallengerR/TfortheHemifirst place finishes. they struck a deal, and Phillip, whoBelvederein2011,andeverybodyIn 2018, Aaron Boggs, up in had long dreamed of owning a Hemiwent home happy.Columbus, Ohio, finally saw the car.car found himself in possession of aBythistime,thecarwasBeingahistoryfanatic,hedsoon truetimecapsuleHemiBelvedere.showingitsage,andFloridassaltytalked to everybody involved with The Phillip would go on to own The Browclimate doesnt do a lot to help theBrow,goingallthewaybackto for the next thirty years, and after a lotbodies on old cars.So, Ray disas- Rockysson,andPhillipConklin. of cleaning and primping, they were asembled the Plymouth and sent theAfter quite a bit of arm twisting and regular sight at car shows and cruisebodyovertoRayYounkin,ofhorse trading, Aaron finally convinced nights around Pensacola, but as heStripmastersServices,Inc.,andheRay to sell, and so it was that, after aged, the car got out less and lessdecidedtoenlistthehelpofRayhaving spent all its life in Florida, the and, finally, he was only making a fewBartontoputallthemechanicalred Belvedere migrated to Columbus local shows a year with it, but duringaspects of the car back in order.Thein the summer of 2018.Aarons first oneofthoselocalshowsinchem strip killed all the rust, leavingpassenger in the car was his eight-Pensacola, racer and Mopar enthusi- nothingbutnakedsteelbehind,soyear-oldson,andasdadranit astRayRappalaideyesontheafter a few holes were patched herethroughthegearswithall Plymouth and knew he had to have it. andthere,thebodywasblocked,eight barrels open, the boy RayownsBlueBoy,a62Maxsanded, and smoothed to perfection,said, This car feels like it WedgePlymouththatwasrecentlyand fresh new red paint went on inwants to fly!That made'