FOR MUCH of our 35-plus year existence, we have had a current project car. The first was project Beeper, a 1972 Road Runner (above) which appeared in the mid-'90s, and still pops up here and there in some kind of component testing capacity.
Clearly the most famous Mopar Action project was the reader-named Green Brick, a stripper 1969 Valiant 100 that went from being a Slant-Six telephone company foreman's car into arguably the best-known A-body on the planet, primarily through our entries, with usually stunning results, in the One Lap of America. The car (and us) ran at least a dozen times, usually winning the vintage American class, and frequently finishing in the top 10 overall, one time as high as second, beating factory-entered Porsches, Benzes, ’Vettes, Lamborghinis, Vipers, you…