I have been meaning to post this for a few months. Back in April we acquired this car! This is our barn find! This car was built in the early 60s, and raced from 60-65 at Aquasco, Del Mar, and Capitol. We picked this D-Altered up from the original owner, builder and racer in April! It is as original as it gets! It has original magnesium wheels, one of the original Cal Automotive Fibergl*** T-Bucket bodies, a nasty built straight 6, GMC 302 (that has been started on a run stand throughout the years), and even the original Moon Tank!! Our plans were to restore it as close to original as we could. The car's original name was Six Pack to Go, and if anyone has any pics from back then of it, I would love to see them!! It has an incredible story as well... So Pete built this car in the early 60s, he raced it from 60-65, and then blew out the rear end on it, couldn't afford to fix it, so he parked it. He owned the car up to about 1980, when he moved to Wyoming. He brought the motor with him and sold the remainder of the car to someone. He needed some race fuel for it about ten years ago and we were the only ones in town that had it. So we gave him some fuel but wanted to know what it was for, he didn't seem like the type to have something high performance, as this was 118 octane fuel. He told my husband what it was for and that's where it all began. Around 2010 his kids were out garage saling and came across his old ch***is, in the exact shape he sold it in, right down to the new slicks that were on it when he sold it, and asked him if he wanted it back, as the man was willing to sell it to him. Pete bought his old ch***is back and had it transported out here. My husband asked him every time he saw him if he was ready to sell the car to him, and he finally came and said he was! He was in the process of rebuilding it so it was all in pieces but he guaranteed us it was all there, and as far as we can tell, it is! So while he didn't have the ch***is in his possession for years, it stayed the same! This is what it looked like when we picked it up.... There were pieces to this car everywhere in his shop but he ***ured us the car was complete! We took 6 weeks and restored this car. Here are progress pics and the final result! We also got the chrondeck cards from him: and a program from a race he won:
Reminds me of our old car of that was built in 1963. I still have the ch***is and often think about restoring it however at 75 I don,t know if I have the energy to do it. We used the body on 2 later altereds all 292 Chevy for power.
That looks cool. Great that you are keeping a vintage drag car on the road[emoji106] Sent from my iPhone using The H.A.M.B. mobile app
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