Tolley's 1970 Charger

August 30, 2019

Mopar diecast car collection 2019 Mariposa County Fair

I had a lot of fun building this display for most of my collection. Many people told me they enjoyed it also.

I put the small 1/64 scale (Hot Wheel / Matchbox sized) cars on the back boards. I made a small "2019 Mariposa Mopar Car Show" diorama for the 1/18 scale cars I have. The staggered shelves below had a few special cars. sets etc.

I hope you enjoy it too.

October 20, 2018

2018 Mariposa car show and cruise

It was time again for our hometown cruise and car show. All brands are welcome. This year there were a bit over 130 cars at the show on Saturday Oct 20th.

Friday night is the cruise, we gather at our local auto parts store then make a couple laps through town and park for the evening talking to locals and tourists about our vehicles. It was a fun evening.

Here are a couple pictures of my Charger on display downtown.

The next day was the show itself. It was a good day, with nice weather. My wife and I were pretty busy all most all day talking to people about my Charger, my Charger diorama, and hearing stories about their cars, and projects both past and present.

Proudly flying the 70 Charger Registry colors!

This year I was pleased to win the Mopar class, there were not a lot of Mopars in our class, but the others were very nice cars also.

September 29, 2018

2018 San Joaquin Valley Mopar Show

Since I was thankfully able to get my Charger back from the body shop in time, my wife and I headed down to enter the closest all Mopar show to home for us. The San Joaquin Valley Mopar Club's Fall Finale.

There were probably 80-100 Mopars in attendance.

The class I entered was for all B-bodies. There were about 20 cars in this class. Actually nearly all of them were pretty nice cars. There were a total of three 70 Chargers including mine in addition there were several '69's, and at least one '68 which was in the 50th anniversary class.

It was a fun show, great weather, and I got to talk to quite a few folks about the 70ChargerRegistry including a couple of '70 Charger owners who did not bring their cars today.

I brought my diorama depicting the history and progression of my Charger, and it was a big hit with many who came by.

All three 70 Chargers in attendance today are visible in this photo.

And I was very happy to have won second in the B-body class. There was some serious competition this year.

October 15, 2016

Mariposa Car Show 2016

Once again it was time for my hometown car show. All makes are welcome and there were a lot of cars despite the threat of rain, which thankfully held off until later in the evening. (Thank you Lord!) I had a really good time talking to lots of other fine Mopar folks about their cars, and the many visitors who came to check out my Charger.
It was a fun show!

Here are a few photos of my charger at the show.

People continue to enjoy the diorama I made to show major stages in my Charger's journey over the years.

One of the things our Chamber of Commerce (who organizes the show) tries to do each year is to invite a celebrity of some renown in the automotive world. This year we had the chance to meet and talk to "Horny Mike" from the TV show "Counting Cars". He was a neat guy and really likes Mopars and seemed to enjoy my Charger and its back story.

Here is my wife, daughter, and myself with "Horny Mike"

Getting close to time to head home.

Nothing like the tail of a '70 Charger!

October 07, 2016

Fresno Dodge / San Joaquin Valley Mopars cruise in 2016

One of the Mopar car shows we always try to go to is the San Joaquin Valley Mopars show in Madera, CA. The club also coordinates with Fresno Dodge to have a cruise in, show and BBQ at the dealership the Friday night before the show. This sounded like fun, and we had a good experience buying our new Dodge Caravan at Fresno Dodge in July so I planned to drive the Charger down and participate.

There were at least two dozen cool Mopars that showed up and some really cool folks to talk to.

Here are some pictures from the event, these were taken by me, with my phone, so they are not up to the usual high standards set by my wife with her Nikon.

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October 24, 2015

Mariposa Car show 2015

Each year the all brands car show in my home town grows. Last year there were almost 200 cars, this year I think the number was well over that. I spoke to people who brought cars from Las Vegas, and all parts of California.

This year I again participated in the fun Friday night cruise. First we meet up at our O'Reilly Auto PArts store (used to be a NAPA store, but owned and operated by the same local folks.)

Here are a couple pictures from down town Mariposa. There were lots of folks waling around checking out the cars. Met some really nice folks. Especially some youngsters who were fascinated by classic muscle cars.

Then Saturday was the show itself.

This is a publicity photo for the show organizers with their trophy presenter for 2015.

This year I entered the Mopar category (instead of the general muscle car class like last year). I won 1st place in the Mopar class which was quite an honor. There were many very nice Mopars in attendance.

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July 15, 2015

Mopar Alley Mopar Rally 2015

One of the shows that has been an annual pre-Father's day trip for my family for many years is the Mopar Alley club's Mopar Rally. It used to be at Ohlone College near Fremont and we really liked that site. Now for the second year it is at DeAnza college in Cupertino which is OK, but we liked the old location better.

However, this year was the first time my Charger was finally ready for this large show.

I trailered my Charger to Morgan Hill where I met up with a buddy from the 70 Charger Registry, then we caravaned to the show in our Chargers.

Ready for the road.

At the Show with my diorama depicting the history of my Charger since I've owned it.

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October 18, 2014

Next Show - Mariposa

Today was a large (for our area) all brands car show. The show is put on by the Mariposa County Chamber of Commerce. It has been growing each year, and this year there were said to be over 250 cars in attendance.

First though yesterday night was a cruise through our town, with the parking downtown blocked off for us to park and show our cars.

The cruise started at our local NAPA store as they are a major sponsor of the show.

Here my Charger and my wife's '72 Dart Swinger are waiting at NAPA for time to cruise.

Had a fun time with the cruise and park thing tonight. Talked to a lot of people. There was a nice lady who is a regular on Overhaulin' there greeting people and taking pictures with people and their cars. Her name is Cherielynn Westrich, she is it turns out, a lifelong Mopar gal apparently and was VERY excited to get her picture taken with my Charger. Evidently she has a '68 Dart of her own - very cool!

My Charger downtown after the cruise.

Then today it was time for the show - here is my Charger in position.

There were tons of classes including a Mopar class which I knew was likely to have only a few cars (in truth there were six Mopars present including a truck out of over 250 cars!)

I chose to enter the Muscle Car class so as not to compete against my fellow Mopar owners. It worked out well as I managed to win third place in the class.

October 11, 2014

Show time! - Madera

October 11th was time for the annual Fall Finale put on by the San Joaquin Valley Mopars Club in Madera, CA

We really like this show as it is usually great weather, and it is the closest all Mopar show to where I live.

There were not quite 90 Mopars there, which is seemed to be down from the previous few years.

I had the only '70 Charger at the show, there were 1 68, two '69's, and one '73 Chargers. We were all in a general "B-Body" class. There were numerous Road Runners, and a bunch more nice cars in my class.

I did not win anything, which is OK, although I was certainly ready to stride up to the award table if my name had been called.

Here is a picture of my Charger in position.

I finally got to use my diorama for the purpose I made it for. Seemed like it was a hit with the crowd.

A long time friend of ours does a lot of automotive photography and she and the owner of a really nice all numbers matching 1970 Plymouth Superbird were at the show as well, so we positioned our cars for some fun pictures together. Click here to see her photography page.

A very nice day for my Charger's first car show!

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