Features Corvette hot rods - picture thread

Road Racers...

 

Neat stuff guys.

I think Metalshapes has a little fetish with these cars. ha,ha

Keep them coming.

 

This is a local true 10.5 racer named Mark Woodruff. This car as you see it here in this photo. Has gone 199 MPH in the quarter. Twin Turbo, EFI Big Chevy. Stock door panels , real glass, stock steering wheel. Stock body, hood. Just all around neet car.

 

Love Them ! thanks for all the great shots !

 

This is what it looked like after he put it in the woods at 148MPH at the end of the 1/8th mile. Just after the guard rails stoped at a local outlaw 1/8th mile track. It was up and running a few months later.

 

Sorry for the giant pics above. I cant figure out how to make them smaller. Damn Im a dumb ass.

But anyway here is another.

 

again Wild Frog

 

No joke. There was a 63 or 64 Corvette here in St.Louis that was found in a garage by a realestate agent while selling a house for a elderly woman. Her brother left it there in the late 60s , AFX style big block car. Crazy paint, injected big block. etc. I bought the Eelco tank out of it when the new owner turned it back to stock. Even welded in a new crossmember patch. Where the previous owner cut it out for the big block balancer. I wish I would have found it. That car would be hunting guardrails at the HAMB Drags every year.

 

Wild Frog , What a great name. I am guessing that it is green?

Blown , Injected. Mags, MMMMMMMMM Yummy!!!

 

My friend Tom Masa was the crew chief with this car in the early 60s.
Bartford Chevrolet in St. Louis.

 

I didn't know if a GS Vette would really fit in this thread but here's one more.

 

Here is mine. Just moved it into my new garage after a 15 year! hibernation in my basement. (retired a month ago..putting finishing touches on 36'x64'garage) It's up for a new round tube backhalf/4-link, 468"BBC...the blue one is my son's 10-second street ride.[/ATTACH]

 

Here's one that I built with a nitro burning engine

 

That's one fine .049

 

Wow,cool,what scale,Where did you get that body?

 

BJ Thompson use to run at Norwalk and 42 back in the day. He could shift the 4 speed pretty good. JC

 

Hell yeah, its a hot rod isnt it ?!!

 

One of the REAL ones is in the Simeone Collection in Philadelphia. It was the Penske car.

 

The 63 GS Vettes were some pretty decent factory hotrods. Pricey little suckers today though.

I remember quite a few early Vette drag cars and I look at all of the old pictures and I only wish I knew where they ended up. There were a ton of them, yet how many even still exist today in drag race trim. There had to be a large number that were not hacked up that were turned back to stock. Future generations will have to live most of the history in old photographs. Good thing for threads like this that may show there were more to the old Corvettes than matching numbers.

I like this old pic with the injected 62. It appears to be Charlie Wilson's Vicious Vette in the background. Would like to see those guys go at it.

War Rat is one I know nothing of although it does have the look.

Lang's Malco gasser appears to be pretty well turned out for show as well as on the strip.-Jim

 

more...................

 

Here are pics of mine. The story I got from the PO is that this car was raced from day 1. I bought it from a fella in Cleburne Tx. It came with no engine or tranny so in the spirit of drag racing I added a Hilborn injected 327 sparked with a Mallory mag and followed up with a Muncie tranny. Previously it was backhalved with a four link using the leaf springs and floater housing ends on a nine inch and tubbed wheelwells in fiberglass. So it's a former drag car that I had the audacity to drive on the street.

 

Here are some more, I hope there are no repetes.

 

Nice, I like it. Good choice on the injected 327. Do you have any original pics of the car or know any of its history?-Jim

 

Fremont, (bought this photo) Nor Cal vette Joe Murdaca

 

My Dad ran this 53 at the Salinas Drag strip in the 60's....Still has the car today but completely restored.

 

Hey Jim, I don't think those have been posted in this thread. Good pics nevertheless.

Seeing the pic of Mr Pickett, I have read that this was the same car as Vicious Vette. Anyone know the history?-Jim

 

Jim, sorry no history. I have a bunch more pictures, but it is hard to keep track of what is already posted. CRS