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COOL RADIATORS FOR HOT CARS!

Glen-ray has become the ‘go-to’ shop for authentic MoPar

radiators

By Brian Earnest

ob Schirmer has a problem on his hands. On an otherwise ordinary
Tuesday morning in the life of a radiator repair whiz, he has a
customer that is trying to make his life easy.
And it’s driving him a little nuts.
Schirmer, who along with his father Ray Sr. and brother Ray Jr. —
R.C. for short — runs Glen-ray Radiators in the northern Wisconsin city
of Wausau, almost can’t bear the thought of sending out a radiator that
looks, well ... crappy. But that’s what the customer wants, strangely
enough — a radiator that doesn’t need to look good, just one that won’t
leak or overheat. In fact, the customer has requested that the radiator for
his 1973 Plymouth Duster be ugly.
But it all just goes against Schirmer’s nature.
“He wants it for some kind of 24-hour endurance race,” Schirmer
chuckles. “He doesn’t want us to make it look good. I can’t even de-dent
it or anything. He just wants us to get it done and send it out... It’s all I