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Old 04-06-2013, 10:55pm   #1
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Cruise night in Chattanooga. The BEST part was the old Honest Charley speed shop and museum was open. Corky Coker (Coker Tires) owns and re-opened the speed shop. It was a booming mail order biz. from the 50s-70s. Corky has a great collection of cars and bikes. I love the original ones with patina





































































































































































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Old 04-06-2013, 11:04pm   #2
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*Honest Charley* don't know where I came up with "Fast Charley"
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Remember H/C from years ago. Great to learn it's reopened.

Thnx for the pics.

Really like the Hemi Roadrunner.
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Thanks for posting the pics, looks like a good place to be. I can still remember the Honest Charley catalog, in fact I'm sure I bought out of it.
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Damn. Anybody got a smoke?
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Wow. Those are some beautiful cars!
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Gotta go there. I remember as a kid, Charley hisself would drive his 57 t-bird down to Birmingham to the racetrack on Sundays.
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I love an old COE
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There is some serious eye candy there....
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Great pictures Jerry, thanks for posting them. My 56 Belair rag would look right at home in that collection.
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I love an old COE
Coker has started a bicycle mfg. company. They had them on display. Cool bikes !

Coker Cycle Company | The Worlds First 36 Inch Unicycle
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Any chance some of those cars used to be on display at the old Great Race Museum in Granbury, Texas? There are several that look familiar.
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Great stuff man!!!!
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I love an old COE
I'd give a left testicle for that truck!
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Any chance some of those cars used to be on display at the old Great Race Museum in Granbury, Texas? There are several that look familiar.


Very well could be. I intended to go over and look at the windshield sticker on a couple of them. Then my attention span went south lol I remember one of the races started or went right by the store a few yrs. ago. They also came roaring through my town. It was a sight to see those BIG cars blasting down the road. People don't realize how large those early cars really are, until you see them in person.
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Nice pictures. Thanks for sharing. I remember Honest Charley. I may have bought some stuff from them back in the day.
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