Sweet car. I was a bit too young to see it when it was running at Detroit. Have my own Detroit Dragway tear down story. I was running a 63'Galaxie 390. 2x4's w/427 heads. I thought the big ol car ran good, a consistent 13.15. Ran it at one of Detroits "nationals" one year and they told me I had to run it as a 428 or not at all. I wanted to race so they stuck me in D/HR. 1st car I drew was a 427 Chevelle. Don't know how but I beat him bad. Get back to the pits and he's all over my car with the tech guys looking it over. He claims I'm running a 427 but won't put up the $ to tear me down. He avoided me like the plague the rest of the weekend. I go on to beating everyone else in that cl*** all weekend (wasn't but 4 or 5 cars in that cl***) and win my plastic trophy. He finally shows up late on Sunday after the cl*** had already run and ran OTC/late to win a piece of plastic. Fast forward to next early spring at the Detroit Autorama at Cobo hall, there's his car sitting there proudly showing his plastic. He wasn't around so I could ridicule him so I just had a good laugh. My highlite of a mediocre drag racing career. By the way. If he put up the $ to tear me down he would have lost.
SKAI HIGH... Always do love preserved pieces of history like that ! Thanks for posting & the pix ! Jonnie www.legends.thewwbc.net
What a neat drag car! Glad to see she still has the mandatory Hurst Comp Plus in her IMG_3747 by bowie posted Aug 1, 2014 at 6:58 PM
Exotic Transmission Controls! Fred saved the original box for the Hurst along with boxes for the Rochester carbs and Mallory Distributor. Someone left a note on the Mallory box flap: Fred - I went to work, Mom and Jim down to new Sears store, going to ride bus back. Not sure why I find that interesting.
Cool box! I've always been a bit of a Hurst freak, like they used to say " shift as hard as you please but don't break your arm"... IMG_3746 by bowie posted Aug 1, 2014 at 6:57 PM
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