Buttwheat

Buttwheat - I remember her well. A gleaming gold 1977 Dodge Charger with 360 cubic inches under her hood. It was my second car in less than a year after I turned 16. (Does anyone remember what my first car was?) Not long after I got her, the upgrades took place.

First were the chrome 15" rims with matching Goodyear wide tires. Mind you, I only put them on the back. I left the stock rims and tires on the front for a good reason. I like to think that I was a bit of a non-conformer back then, but we all know that the real reason was that I spent the rest of my money on Domino's pizzas and silly trinkets for the ladies. (BB, MS, SM - can you name at least one?)

Anyway...back to the car. Not long after the manueverability upgrade came the powerplant. A Holley 650 four-barrel carb was added atop a Eidelbrock aluminum intake manifold to produce a heart stopping 5 horsepower increase! Well at least she sounded smooth with the modified exhaust system (headers and glass packs). I used to love slipping her in neutral underneath the freeway on Upton (where - in the wee hours of the night - many a car was pelted by the flying pyrotechnics of AJB, DCP and some guy named Jon Stewart), thereby scaring the bejeebers out of the otherwise unknowing passers by.

She was a good car she was...and she parked so beautifully on the tarmac of (CCA) - Sylvania, OH. She took the NCA on many missions, including the (Moons Shine Brightly Over Toledo) which resulted in a confiscated BB gun and a good talking to by the Ohio State Police. Does anyone remember the list of passengers that fateful night? Who came up with the name of Buttwheat anyway?