Found Dads '56 Chevy Gasser!

Met you at Mooneyes! Car looked great. I wouldn't change the look! See you at the March meet. Stan with the blue 55 gasser.

 

gotta love these gassers. nice.

 

Thanks Stan.

 

Dennis and Carrol Coker came by for a visit over the week end and brought me a few surprises. The first pic of the car is the original Tutone
White/Maroon. Then someone pulled a left hand turn in front of him, so he
repaired the sheet metal and painted it Bahama Blue. The Riverside Hot Rod Magazine Nationals trophy is from the Inagural race in 1964. The pic in Hot Rod Deluxes year book is the same race where he won E/Gas and this trophy. The two tall trophys are for class at the '62 and '64 Winternationals.

 

..,later, when he replaced the rearend with a 57 Pontiac, he cut the rear wheel wells, changed the trim from 210 to 150 and painted it red.

 

.., Carrol his wife said she got tired of seeing the black steelies on the front with Halibrands on the rear, so she borrowed the money from her grandmother to buy the five spoke mags for the front (Riverside picture). Later, they had the car "professionally lettered" by Dennis/Chris Jones (can't remember the first name)

 

Dennis nor his wife know yet, but I'm taking the '56 to Larry Fators tomorrow and have him put Dennis name, competition #424 and class designation back on the car. He won't know until he see's it at the GNRS deal at Pomona. PS. They don't own a computer so don't go tell'n em

 

The '64 Hot Rod Magazine Championships at Riverside and the '63 or '64 Winternationals chasing Ron Madella's '64 Mopar Wagon during the eliminator.

 

bump

 

Dennis name and competion number back on the '56 46 years later. I took some liberty with the "B/G" as that is the class the car would have been in
had he kept it and progressed into faster classed with 400 + cubes. Can't wait to see the look on his and Car





ols face.

 

Got out in the sunshine yesterday.

 

Sent this pic to a friend of mine, he said "looks like Stone/Woods & Cook are gett'n back together to field a '56 Chevy"

 

Got a nice little mention in the new issue of Hot Rod Deluxe. Thanks Dave Wallace and all the guys at the magazine for caring. Ric.

 

Too cool fer school! Whattaya think it's gonna turn when it's all sorted out?

 

It should have enough muscle to go 10.60's-10.80's/125-130. It has 4.30's with a 3.27 first 5 speed. If I leave it in 4th, its the same as having a 5.23 out back. I took 27 grams off the clutch counter weight and now it practically hooks on the street with a small burn out. Just found out today that Irwindale is back in business, so I'm gonna get a "test session" in asap.

 

Was that problem at the Moon Eyes Christmas Show?. The car looked like when a student driver is learning to drive a stick car at times.

 

That is the BEST, seeing the old girl run again.....you made a lot of people smile .

 

The problem at Moon Eyes was an ignition short through the old amp gauge. At first I though it was a fuel system problem, but in the car it was just like turning the ignition on and off a bunch of times. After I got home I started going throught ignition and wiring and found the problem. I also moved the coil inside the car right behind the distibutor. Now the coil wire is only 3 inches long, instead of a foot and a half. It was embarassing, the way the car acted, but not my first pass in a stick car. Those were my first passes in this car, just working out some bugs.

 

Just my way of describing the pass. I could see it was not driver related. I could hear you trying to sort it out. Clearly it was the car.

 

THAT is such a great Car. I dig reading anything about it. Just Awesome!

 

Thanks Nine Inch, stay tuned, there's more coming soon!

 

sweet

 

Got a gift from the archives this weekend. The photo at the GNRS shows the Class trophy from the Inaugural Hot Rod Magazine Championships at Riverside Raceway that Dennis and Carol have loaned me. The two black-n-



white photos are the car in action at that race and Dennis and pals being awarded that same trophy by Ray Brock.., two months before I was born.

 

Such cool stuff great history that 56 gives me so much inspiration.....love that car....

 

Thanks again Butch yours is bitchen too. When I get done playing with my Q-Jet tunnel ram setup, we've got some Jacksons to play with. Keep your eye out for the July issue of Hot Rod Magazine

 

OHHH YEAAAAAHHHH! You're gonna love the throttle response from that mechanical injection and hate constantly tuning it. For your car though, that'll be killah looking.

 

AHH!! love this!!

Cooooool steering wheel there too =)

 

Looks like we got a photo in Rod & Kulture. Cool!

 

HOLY COW! We hit the "Big Time" View attachment ATT00001.txt

 

Oops, hold for the pic.