awesome thanks guys. going to letter up the ranchero with b/mp letters but wanted to make sure it was somewhat accurate!
Posted for "Racemad" The man standing to my left was a N.H.R.A. div.1 rival,drove the immaculate 57 corvette that was called the"Hayseed" candy apple red,hilborn injection,chrome straight axle, one of the nicest drag vettes ever! still owns it! His name is Doug Juonis from New Hampshire .anyone have any color pictures of it to post?
Like the Jr Stock thread, this one brought back the memories. At some point, someone mentioned the O'Connell, Hill & Bussart F/G '57. "Hill" of course is Jim Hill, whom many of you know from the Yahoo Gasser Group. Mark
The Connecticut Dragway 1959 Ford Custom 300 "Jack The Ripper" B/MP. Owned by CT Dragway, 1961-1970 first as a track service/doctor's car, then converted to competition trim. NSTA (Nutmeg State Timing Assoc.) Record Holder. Powered by a 429 wedge it ran low 12's/high 11's. Currently powered by a 506ci Ford wedge. -Dean
Here are a few of my fathers 64.5 Mustang D/MP. It ran a Racing Parts Boss 302 with Gapp & Roush high port plated heads with a slick shifted Super T-10. These shots are from Mason Dixon Dragway in 1973. It ran right around 11.00 @ 130. Lots of RPMs and a stick!!!
One of my fav's,that was one of the wheels up 55's on launch ! what I thought was neat was seeing a sign on a parking spot at Island Dragway with their name on it back a few years! Is it still there? I'm partial to white 55' drag cars anyway.
Cool pics, cool thread. My dad ran Butch Lake motors for a while and ended up buying Butch Lake's Chevy II back in the 80's running it with a stick in AHRA briefly before going to the super classes. I can remember Butch winding that thing to 10k and dragging the bumper. I can also remember wrenching on that thing every pass, fishing pieces of broken rocker arms from the heads. Hence the reason for going strictly bracket racing at a valve train friendly RPM. I just wish I had some decent video of those days. The cars were so much slower yet so much more impressive to me. This is a pretty sweet sounding Nova that''s probably been posted before. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqYs2R4Ks1U
Yes, name is still there ,ray jr and brother ron still race there...ray jr has been racing there about 44,45 years..
Neat stuff Ron !,Thinking about bringing the old Blevins nomad to Island for the Dover reunion on the 7th. if the weather cooperates , you going?
I had planned to go, would like to see Paul's old car up close.....I had spoke to him briefly, down the old " Hot Rod Shop.... in Clifton,,,
Bill Bussart of O'Connel, Hill & Bussart passed away just the other day, RIP Buzzard. Was in a coma on a machine & organs started going. For the best, I suppose. The boy could shift a 4 or 5 speed !
My Uncles 1957 Chevy Modified Production circa 1970. He ran a 302 out of a 1969 Z-28 Camaro in it. He did most of his racing out of Kil-Kare Dragway in Xenia, Ohio, but we hit some other Southern Ohio tracks as well.
Here's a "fun" story from Island back in the mid 70's. Maybe Ray Jr. remembers. Sorry, no pictures. Ray was running the 68 Camaro and had some kind of a braking issue in the lights. I don't remember ever hearing what actually happened (speculation at the time was that maybe the line-loc locked up) but both front tires were kaput. Mike Mausley (of Mausley and Keegan) lived a few miles from the track and we ran up to his house and pulled the front tires off of his wifes 66 or 67 Tempest and left it there on a jack. I think the tires were H-78 X15. Anyway, Ray ran the next round with a pair of whitewall tires on a set of rusty black rims instead of the normal Crager Super Tricks, wheels up and all. I don't remember the E.T being any appreciable amount slower and that is definitely the fastest those tires ever went. Glad Mike's wife didn't have to go to the store.
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