Bat Car Rice & Holman Boss Hoss Doug's Headers Nickey Harrell EDIT: thanks to Mike VV it is really Dick Harrell
Loudbang,that Boss Hoss car showed up last year or the year before on Craig's list....converted to a fastback. The guy was trying to pass it off as one of the factory backed Holman/Moody long nose cars if I remember correctly. Scott Sent from my iPhone using The H.A.M.B. mobile app
I don't think that front axle quite fits in the comet frame! Sent from my iPhone using The H.A.M.B. mobile app
Good catch fiveoh108. What is happening with the front end of the Georgia Fox car? At first I thought the front wheel was off but I think the lug nuts are still on the wheel.
Standard procedure on a lot of the altered wheelbase cars. They moved the front axle forward, but it appears that the Georgia Fox didn't bother to alter the fender cutouts to match. The wheel is actually inside the sheet metal, but the picture looks like it isn't.
The photos on pg. 70 of the Bloody Red Baron and Quicksilver ll are the same car owned ,driven and wrenched by Len Silvers. There was supposed to be a match race deal with some guys in Canada with a flip top Comet called Snoopy that didn't last. I got to crew with the car a bit but the military had other plans for me. The car was a great looking Dart and very successful on the match race circuit.
Home on leave for 30 days on my way to play in Viet Nam Len Silvers had found Chevoom in a chicken house in northern Ohio. I spent the biggest part of my leave helping to get it going. It was missing some engine parts that took awhile to round up. The car is ALL fiberglass (B and N) on a Logged chassis. The 354 blown HEMI was mounted with it's short tailshaft torqueflite to a box tube frame bolted to the rear axle and pinned in the front near the seat area to the chassis. Coil springs in the rear. Car handled like a squirrel on a hot nut when it hooked up. Drove OK when the tires where smoke'n. Len managed high 7's at 182 before he parked it after a pass at 179 mph dead sideways in the traps. Luckly he had got the 'chute out. Len's over 6' and the seat is so far forward his knees were by his elbows and the steering wheel so close to the windshield his knuckles hit the windshield. The car won the Bradly at the Detroit Autoroma in 1966. Guess you don't have to drive 'em to win it. Heard rumors it has a BBC in it and it's front engine now. Don't know that for sure.
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