This was a gasser, not an altered although later on the team did run an Austin in BB/A but that one was a glass bodied flip top. Roo
You beat me too it Roo. The Herreras were good people. When Hugh Tucker was dominating NHRA Street Eliminator with the advantage of a ridiculously unrealistic AA/SR ET record, all the gasser boys were really upset. Manuel and his dad wanted to put their blown big block in my RPU and set the record from 10.0's to deep in the 9's where it should have been. While it was a good proposal, we would have had to cut my car up quite a bit to accommodate the BBC, so I passed.
That looks like a '32 Ford frame but the 5-window body does not look like a 5-window deuce - unless some very meticulous body mods were done to it around the beltline. Does anybody know what kind of body was used?
That 32 has quite a revered past and has saw both Hotrod and track action...I'll see if I can dig up some info...yes huge body mods...
https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/oakland-hot-rods-2-1955.600446/ https://kustomrama.com/wiki/Mervyn_Toynton's_1932_Ford https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum...genized-hotrods.1002926/page-18#post-11405414 Credit to Photographer, Owner
From what I remember three 32 5 windows were done this way, I've seen two of them, one supposedly burnt up in a fire and was scrapped. I saw one in person and it was maroon and full fendered, around 1976 in Lodi CA. at the Lodi Grape Festival rod run. It was a traditional style car, the other one I saw on some TV show about what people live in. This guy lived in an old gas station in the Santa Rosa area. His car was yellow with a blower motor and would be considered a Street Rod.
Ansen Automotive Engineering Actully the Davis and Ingram car before they put their own names on the doors. Roo
Have a question for rooman and loudbang, Do you guys know what size slicks they were running in C/A or D/A in the earlier days?
Depends on how early. I had 7 or 8 inch wide Bruce slicks as short as he made. 14 inch wheels. Don't remember the dia. Needed a shorter gear than the 4:10 Olds gears I had so went with a shorter tire.
1959 Lions Dragstrip Cook and McCartney C/Altered Hello, Those early 1958 to 1960 cars usually had the 7 and 8 inch Bruce Slicks. We had a set of 7 inch Bruce Slicks on the 58 Impala. Of course, they were illegal to run during eliminations, but for the trial runs in any hot rod, they were ok. The improvement in times and speed were better than without slicks, but they sure grabbed the Dragstrip surface. They worked well on the streets of Bixby Knolls, until a mist covered the roads. Then, they were dangerous. The coastal mist usually rolled in around 11pm-12 am, so, there was a “slicks on the car” curfew. time trials Later in 1960, since the Bruce Slicks were mounted on Chevy rims, they fit perfectly under the rear fenders of our new build, 1940 Willys Coupe 671 SBC in C/Gas. The Bruce Slicks had a great following until the new M&H slicks came out in the mid 1960 timeline. The whitewall slick in the foreground was a “cheater slick” being sold by the local cheater slick tire salesman (Moxley). We bought a 7 inch wide set for the Impala, but sold them before we started running the newly built 40 Willys. That salesman usually parked next to us quite a number of times at Lions Dragstrip. He did have a following. Jnaki But, for the lower Altered Classes, most of them ran Bruce Slicks in the 7-8 inch range. Look at how skinny the Cook and McCartney Altered Ford Coupe’s tires are in the photo. They were one of the top C/Altered racers in So Cal. Until the top racers started using the new M&H slicks, the Bruce Slicks cornered the market. Before our Willys coupe accident, we had a set of big 9 inch M&H slicks on order, which we had to cancel due to unforeseen circumstances in August 1960. Cook and Mc Cartney
Dean Lowe, RichFox and jnaki, Thanks for the reply.I'm planning a build with a inline 6 and the D/A's from the early 60's have peaked my interest.I have downloaded some of the rulebooks from that era as reference material also.
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