I used to own are car called the Chicken Coupe 34 Chevy 3window,and a friend of mine just got a car from his dad that passed away,original 1968 Z/28 Camaro 26,000 miles called Bits and Pieces from around Chicagoland he use to run at U.S. 30 dragstrip!
My grandfather owned a gas station from from the late fifties to the late sixties. He gave my uncle a '56 Chevy to race at Englishtown. They painted the car black and named the car "Rod Buster". I wish I could find some pictures of it...anybody out there have one ? It ran with numerous engine combos from small blocks, big blocks, 409's etc...owning a gas station and scrapping cars gave them alot hardware to work with.
I remember seeing this on the back of a Corvette at the 1967 SpringNationals. "MIASSIS DRAGON", never forgot it.
No one mentioned Arnie 'the Farmer' Bestwick's the Tameless Tiger. I think every track had a station wagon named Grocery Getter. Here locally when I was just out of HS, there was a late model T/A named Pac-Man. Ironically, it ended up hitting a wall. there was also an altered bucket named Witch's Brew that ran for much of the mid to late 70's and into the early 80's. Jet cars always had interesting names like Les Shockly's ShockWave,
Don't know if it was mentioned, but my wife and I always got a kick out of "Home Wrecker III". I figure if my roadster was a race car, it would aptly be named "Bone of Contention"-haha!!!
My buddy wants to name his "NADS" so his friends can sit in the stands and yell "GO NADS" "GO NADS" "GO NADS" as he drives by..... LOL Steve
Maybe a bit o.t but I just sold a straight axled 57 post that was called 'the little brown jug'. I picked it up in Antioch, Ca. Anyone ever hear of it?
One of the Koolest names I ever saw was in the early sixties, Gene Altizer of S&S Parts gasser fame had a 32 Chev coupe gasser called " Too num to Cum"
Indianapolis Raceway Park saw many runs by the We Haul Spl. This gasser, pogo and snoopy we regulars at IRP
dont have any pics because the car isnt finished . I had 2 ideas for my 55 Because a tree had to be cut down that was growing up through the engine bay of the car and had wedged itself between the frame and the front fire wall brace , i was gonna name it " Stump Jumper " still got the section of tree i cut out that perfectly molded itself to the frame and firewall lol. Second choice was going to be named after the CCR song " Run Through The Jungle" Have not decided yet.
My buddy Henrys 55 in San Antonio is called "Purple Haze" and I lettered "S'cuse me while I kiss the sky" on his front bumper...
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