YORK return road & Capitol starting line 1963/5 *Phil Bonner sure dealt with that 'wheelbase and weight issue'! (*from my 8mm Home-Movie footage)
I saw the Dickie Ogles 56 Bel-Air wagon at Bowling Green during the Hot Rod Reunion several times.Once inside on display and the other times being driven on the street. The car still has the burgundy and black color scheme along with the Cragar wheels.
I was talking on the phone to one of the members of this forum last week ("Super" Tom Larson), and this thread came up. He mentioned that Pivano & Agaman at one time ran a Ford. I told him I don't ever recall ever hearing that or seeing a picture of the car. Well, just a couple days later as I was going through my collection of Raceway News issues, look at what I found! Anyone remember this car? Pete
thank you for this thread . I have been going to raceway park since 1982 , been a big fan of stock eliminator ... would have liked to have seen all those shoeboxes racing in junior stock , but NHRA dropped the hammer when I was 6 years old .thanks again , I am learning a lot
I know, I know...it's not a Junior Stocker. But Walt's car sure is sporting a Junior Stocker's paint scheme! Maybe it was at one time? Pete
Hey, what's with these Junior Stock guys and them naming their cars with some fruit-related name? Ya know what I'm talking about, i.e., Terrible Tangerine, Bad Banana, etc., and these two guys above? What's the connection, or inside joke? Pete
The "Ashfalt Arbitrator"..........oh my goodness!! Lord knows where that 380hp 409 wagon is today................. This thread IS "the book".
The "REILER Bros" in the picture at the top is in reality the black and silver RIECH Bros. car I mentioned in an earlier post. Kenny Koonce is also a good friend of mine and raced several good stockers back in the day..
Thanks for IDing the Bill Niedergesans "Mystery Wagon" Pete. Seems Bill got it from Bernie Pyles (see #2042 on back quarter glass in both photos). Now, the question is ... did Bernie 'build it,' or was it the former Truppi-Kling Terrible Tangerine?
Hi Colesy ! Was this magazine a single issue or a series? Did anyone ever reproduce it? Has it been copied and put up on the internet to see and read?
Pete, Great shot of "The Mover". Mr. Fodrie was a heck of a nice guy who passed away years ago. Larry Whitley is stiil racing a '69 AMX IHRA crate motor stocker. Bob Rice
Can I add a few names and cars. I posted them at a earlier post but you must have missed them. Gene Collins 66 271 HP auto Mustang and 428 Ford Fairlane Joe Perzan 60 Pontiac SD station wagon Sam Samuels 60 Pontiac SD sedan Mike Miatico 61 Pontiac SD wagon and hardtop Larry Kopp 57 Chevy wagon "mousie" Brown 409 Chevy convertable Max Sterling 61 and 62 Pontiac SD hardtops (White Lightning) Randy Smith 56 Chevy wagon "POP" Kennedy 62 Pontiac Grand Prix Leon Marainian 65 Chevy Convertable Kenny Koonce 66 Chevy hardtop and Convertable I could probably think of a zillion more if I took the time....lol These guys raced at Capitol, Aquasco, 75-80, Mason Dixon, Manassas, Suffolk, all with purpose built stockers. Joe Perzan and his 60 Pontiac 389 SD station wagon led the Div. 1 points chase for awhile sometime around 1966-1967 I think.
merocheck & shirley also ran a 57 wagon 270hp stick car, bucks or cups later became an auto, ru to dave boertman at us nationals
Terry, Charboneau is Div 7 and Tom Larson is Div 1. Also we should add John James -Chevy Div 1 Atco and Chuck Johnson -Ford Div 1 Englishtown {Just about the funniest SOB I have ever met} Dom
Thanks guys for all of the 'instant' (LIST) feedback ... via both 'Private Messages' and posts. I've 'pretty-much' amended The LIST accordingly, save for a few that I'll add later. For now, I'll just 'edit' my last list post (#2511) see--> http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showpost.php?p=3863001&postcount=2511 ... and then after a while I'll 're-post' it. *Please remember ... "We've attempted to list the most 'notable' car that the driver was associated with ... " Thanks Again, ... Steve PS: (ATT 'Dom') RE: "Also we should add John James -Chevy Div 1 Atco and Chuck Johnson -Ford Div 1 Englishtown Dom" Years of those cars?
Actually a lot of magazines have old articles available to read, although sometimes you have to be a subscriber to access the information. Most all of the major rags have archives going way back. Here's a piece from TIME Magazine Monday, Oct. 22, 1973 that I 'think' I posted once before, but if so, the 'Grump' is always worth a revisit! Monday, Oct. 22, 1973 Grumpy the Drag King Professional drag racing doesn't offer much in the way of fringe benefits or job security, but at least the hourly pay is difficult to beat. Last year, for exactly 46 minutes of racing, Bill ("Grumpy") Jenkins got $260,000 (including $110,000 for commercial endorsements). Barring an accident, his wage rate this year roughly $5,650 a minutewill be about the same. A small (5 ft. 4 in.), balding troll of a man with a porcupine persona, Jenkins, 42, dominates a sport usually associated with big bruisers in black leather. Last year he won ten of the eleven major national drag races in the pro-stock class. At the American Hot Rod Association meet in St. Louis two months ago, he thundered down the quarter-mile strip in 8.97 sec., an all-time record. Ten days later in Epping, N.H., he clocked 8.93 sec. He only placed second last week at the N.H.R.A. world-championship meet in Amarillo, Texas, but Jenkins is still on his way to another winning season. Big Business. Neither the pursuit of records nor the fact that he is the most successful driver in the 22-year his tory of organized drag racing seems to elate him. "It's really a business," Jenkins snarls from behind his cigar. "I enjoy the development work on the cars as much as the actual racing." Once a semilicit pastime for thrill-seeking high school kids, drag racing has become big business since 1951, when Wally Parks, a former racing driver, founded the N.H.R.A. and held its first meet on an abandoned airstrip in Madera, Calif. Last year the organization sanctioned 2,930 races at 150 tracks, drawing more than 4,000,000 paying spectators. To the uninitiated, drag racing may be easily confused with the rival sport of stock-car racing. In both, the cars sometimes bear a superficial resemblance. But in stocks, the autos career around oval tracks for as many as 500 miles before crossing the finish line; dragsters hurtle down a 1,320-ft. asphalt strip under the watchful electronic eye of an automatic timer. The cars usually race in pairs, but drivers are out to beat the clock as much as each other. Acid Bath. Technological superiority is as important in drag racing as it is in the nuclear arms race. In fact, Bill Jenkins' success results less from his skill as a driver ("A monkey can drive one of these things down a straight track," he says) than from his knack as an engineer. A farm boy from Downingtown, Pa., he dropped out of Cornell University's engineering school in 1953 after his father died. He made his living for several years building engines and preparing race cars for competition, before deciding in 1965 to drive them himself in order to earn more money. Jenkins' 1973 Chevrolet Vega does not look much different from the one that Mom drives to the supermarket, except for the hood-mounted air scoop and an outrigger in back to keep the front of the car from rising too high on takeoff. But Jenkins and his crew of six mechanics make sure that the resemblance is only paint-deep. To prepare the car for its ordeals, the team marinates its body in an acid bath to eat away 120 Ibs. of excess weight. The hood and rear deck are replaced with lightweight Fiberglas panels. His $70,000 engine produces nearly 650 h.p. against a normal 150 h.p. <!--pagebreak--> Jenkins' car, known as Grumpy's Toy, is a rolling billboard for automotive-parts companies. In addition to his track earnings, he commands $1,500 a night, win or lose, for helping dragstrip owners fill the stands for exhibition matches. He employs a public relations consultant to help spread his fameand perhaps counteract the effect of his personality. Though he can be amiable off the track, fans know him as a dour churl who snarls at well-wishers and even puts up barriers to keep spectators away from his pit. Readers of Hot Rod magazine, however, were able to see as much of Grumpy as anyone would wish. Clad in skivvies and sprawled on a bearskin rug, he posed for this month's centerfold. As he approaches middle age, married and with a five-year-old daughter, the drag king confesses to occasional doubts about spending his life at a teenager's pastime while his Cornell classmates are building bridges, designing spacecraft or helping run the automobile industry. "Then," he says, "I ask myself, 'What else can I do to make so much money?' The answer is 'nothing.' <!-- Begin Buttons --> From ... http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,908087,00.html <!-- End Find this article --><!-- End Tout1 --><!-- Begin: Footer -->
Did we miss anyone? from this annual: http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=356844 Pete
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