Well I ran into bill Bilancio who was a shop apprentice at Olsen’s through the Pete arend ****oose video comment section that Brian lohnes just put out. I Got him to come see the car at drag strip riot Orlando Saturday and he gave me a gold mine of new pics of will a meaner, Nick the Greek’s altered wheelbase dodge, ****oose corvette, and Jack crozier’s t altered. He Even gave me a new pic of bob lee’s thunder shifter which I bought a few months ago. Also won best drag car at the show. probably the last time it’ll ever sit in the winners circle at a track
Im stoked that you decided to bring it to the Riot. I only wish that we could have made it this year!
Here's some stuff on Ollie from the January 83 SS&DI. The last sentence of the article is pretty telling considering this was back in 83. Recently a friend gave me a bunch of old magazines, ran into this purely by happenstance. Cool car, good for you.
Ya man was a hard call between the willys Or thunder shifter lol. Finding bill through the YouTube comments section was definitely the deciding factor for me though. Was his first time seeing the car since he was a teen so we stuck him in the driver’s seat and pushed him up to the winners circle for some pics.
Actually bill says his brother may have the split window section and the license plate off of the ****oose I need to follow up on that
The Jalopy Journal
