Anyone have any info on T-Bar Chassis out of Tx.?Who were they anyone have any contact info for the people that worked there maybe?
I think it started out in the mid 60's in Amarillo. The partners split up, T-Bar moved to Dallas. The other partner stayed in Amarillo and ran Duke's Welding. Larry T
Moose Schroeder was the man behind T-Bar Chassis in Dallas. If I remember correctly they were located in the gasoline alley section or West side of Dallas off of Royal Lane & I-35. There were numerous drag racers and shops located in that area. Burkhart, Beadle, Casarez, Gaddy and many others had shops in that general area. My shop was further west on Royal Lane, back in those days. 408
I ran the Jack's Auto Supply store at Royal and Harry Hines '72-'73. Actually I was assistant, but the manager conned the brass into giving him time off so I was in charge. I remember a lot of you guys coming into my store then. Kenny would come into the store sometimes for stuff for his tow vehicles. In '70-71 I crewed on Mike Norris's FED top fueler, #440, and I remember he had Tony Casarez do a lot of chassis work on that car. The welds were beautiful!
I have been friends with Moose since 1972. I am in the process of looking for him now. Does anyone know where I can find him. We worked on planes together when I could pull him off the race cars. Moose (Henry Schroeder) was one of the most talented sheet metal guys I have ever seen. He could weld stainless steel as easily as aluminum or steel. He scratch built a pilot seat for a P-38 lightning that was a pure thing of beauty. Moose had his first heart attack while staying with me in San Antonio in the early 1980's.
This is what I love about HAMB. I knew about Amarillo's T-Bar Chassis Co. from a National Dragster article that came out in 1966 (March 18th edition for those of you who care) but not about its later history. Duke built the roll cage and did some other chassis work on my '23 roadster back in the early 80s. I think Duke took a special liking to me when he found out that my father still had the original Triple Nickel roadster in his garage that had been a big part of the early Amarillo Dragway scene.
When Moose came to dallas looking for a shop location ,Tony Casarez and My self drove him all around that end of town. He liked and setteled on a spot in Yancy- Camp industrial complex. Burkhart, and Mike Minette had shops there. Buddy Anderson worked for Foster Yancy. Later Duke Allen also came to Dallas and worked for our famley metal shop, Dallas Metalsmiths. He was a supurb welder but felt more at home in the pipeline field welding oil pipeline. he told me he would light a leak in the pipe and jump in the hole and weld it up till it stopped burning. duke helped me on several modifications to the U.S. Kids A/FD. We cut all the uprights out from the engine forward and spread the rails, then installed new uprights. This rased the angle of the engine and I only needed to slot some Dzus holes on the side panels to reattach the body. After Duke went back to Amirillo Tony Casarez was our welder. He and I installed around ten new cages when the SEMA roll cage rule came into efect. I am working off and on to restore the Buddy Cortines 1970 T Bar car currently ouned by it's some time driver Bob Gibson. dwrfab Don Ross
I knew Moose through a mutual friend. The last I knew, he had a maintenance shop at Northwest Regional airport, close to Rhome, TX. PM me for phone number and contact.
I first meet Moose in 1977/78 when I worked at Jet Fleet corp. located at Love Field, Dallas. He was doing some work on TI's Falcon 10 jet. I had been eaten up with drag racing since my first race in 1964 at Hobbs, NM. We quickly became friends and I soon started to work for him part-time (for free) in the afternoons just to learn from this man! As posted, he was so talented in sheet metal, yes he can weld with the best but his sheet metal craft was flawless! Tony (Casarez) would weld-up the pipes and then bring the bare chassis to Moose for tins. I remember one Saturday having the Carroll Bros. T/F, the Texas Yankee F/C and Gene Snows F/C in for tubing up-dates to meet NHRA's new chassis rules...what a weekend!!! I credit him for my continued interest in race car building and welding that is now almost 35 years old. I ran into Moose about 8/9 years ago, he said he was living in Lake Dallas and doing aircraft work, I think in Roanoke, TX? It is a privilege to have been able to work with him.
still looking for any info if any one has any the car is back together and raced 2016 season ran 9.34 on pump gas going injection next year
I know that there was a article in one of the popular mags in 65/66 era that featured T-BAR. There was even a cutaway picture or X ray picture of the TIGER II A/FX Chevelle that had one of the very first (if not the first) T-BAR chassis under it. As far as the dragster chassis goes, maybe you could get in touch with Troy Green in OK. He raced a T-BAR car in nostalgia top fuel for a long time before going to the High Speed Motorsports car. Claudie Meador out of Texas ran a small block Chevy T-BAR fueler for years. Unfortunately Claudie is no longer with us. Boy, he sure was a great guy!
I ran a crossed this old thread and realized I never posted a fish picture of the rail so here it is i wished i could find more info on it then i did
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