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RE: Daily Dose of Sultnpapper 04/26/18 > Proclamation from @sultnpapper… today is now “National Hemi Day”
Come on, Man. I owned a '57 Imperial with a 292 CID Hemi! Cool car, you can look it up, mine was Salmon pink. 22' feet long :)
I did a few years as a race mechanic. We were the last car to run the 426 Hemi on alcohol. I loved that motor.
But that really wasn't the point, was it? Does it really need a 'day'? I think there ought to be a jellybean day about once a week and could live without most of the others.
Well Tom, as much as that old 292 Hemi was a good one I just can't throw it in on 426 National Old Hemi Day, just like the 347 , the math doesn't work. I will tell you though that I was just doing my part to give April 26 its due, it doesn't have anything listed that I saw for making it special. The folks up at Chrysler should jump all over promoting 04/26 as National Old Hemi Day next year, in fact their marketing dept. should have caught that back in the day when they were selling them and had a huge "one day" sale on them each year.
Jelly beans are good, but once a week might be going a little far on those...