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TMCP #360: Tim Wellborn; The Wellborn Muscle Car Museum’s Amazing Fleet of ’71 HEMI Chargers, Daytona’s, and Fun!

The MuscleCar Place

Robert Kibbe

Automotive, Leisure, Business, Careers

4.8701 Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2018

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Tim Wellborn; The Wellborn Muscle Car Museum's Amazing Fleet of '71 HEMI Chargers, Daytona's, and Fun! You can get more information about the Wellborn Musclecar Museum at the website www.WellbornMusclecarMuseum.com  or on www.Facebook.com/wellbornmuseum. This is the VERY same museum where Mr. Daniel Boshears provides his Mopar mechanical services (as we discussed in Episode 346). Daniel provided the introduction, in fact!

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0:00.0

The Muscle Car Place Online Podcast, episode number 360.

0:04.1

This week, our guest is Mr. Tim Wilburn, proprietor of, well, proprietor of a lot of things,

0:09.1

but in our world, he may be best known for the Wellborn Muscle Car Museum.

0:13.3

There, he has a number of collector cars, but primarily rare and valuable mopars, and in particular,

0:19.1

a fleet of 1971 Hemey Chargers.

0:22.0

That's the last year the Hemmy was made available, and he's in love with those because that's

0:26.1

the one his dad bought brand new, and it did this to him.

0:29.7

You just don't get it out of your blood.

0:31.3

When you hear a hemmy accelerate and the two four barrels open up, the sound of the four

0:36.4

barrels and the air sucking into the car is prettier than the exhaust.

0:40.8

But when you combine the through, you really got a unique American V8 sound.

0:45.2

Oh, and if you like winged mopars, maybe the most famous of them all is the number 71 K&K

0:50.3

that ran at Tal Dagan, Bonneville.

0:52.2

Tim's got it, and he doesn't want that car

0:54.1

racing days to be over, so

0:55.9

it's hitting the track again.

0:57.8

But it won't be like this.

0:59.2

All right.

1:00.0

While we're still under a carcant,

1:01.9

I want you to go back out on that track

1:03.5

and hit the pace car.

1:05.4

Hit the pace car?

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