When I was a kid, my dad's cousin had a flat bottom drag boat. At the time he was building it, he worked all week and the only time he had to take the boat out for tuning was a few Sunday mornings. It would rain either before or during his 'test and tune' time. He named the boat "Black Sunday". And yes, the boat was black.
Big block ski boat, "Ride Embarrass" Yellow '51 Jeepster in the 60's, after a popular song of the time, "Mellow Yellow" Black primer stock car in N.E. Washington D.C. after the MLK riots , "Black Power" A play on Adam Clayton Powell's, "Keep the Faith Baby". Corner of the deck lid, "Keep the Baby, Faith"
Back in the 1980s in Rockland Maine there was a '69 Camaro with "Raise A Little Hell" painted on the rear spoiler (it had quite a reputation, too!), a big block-powered Nova with "Nasty Nova" on the quarter panels, and a VW Bug with "Bug Spray" painted on the doors. When I was stationed at Clark AB in the late 1980s, someone had a red primered 1970 Plymouth Fury with Gumby wearing a bathing suit and sunglasses painted on the quarter panels, along with "Surf, Swim, Ski Naked" listed next to him.
Better that I skip the details. My Niece was gifted an aged off topic Chevy for her college ride. She neatly painted her idol on the trunk, Wonder Woman
I had this off-topic, mild custom cruiser. The paint color was called Cool Vanilla, and I named the car "Poison Ivory." .......And, I had a street freak, weekend drag racer I named "Quicker N'ell"...... "Nell" for short.
I've looked over Harrop's Howler when it was in a shed in northern NSW, and got taken for a drive around the backstreets of western Sydney in Moore's Missile. Cars that make you smile, owned by good people. Cheers, Harv
In the early '70s there was Dago's Top Fuel drag boat out of Pacheco named "Down & Out", or Louie Hill's '57 Ford out of East Oakland named "Old Blue", or Sil's '56 Chevy "Big Red" out of Pittsburg...
Late 60s early 70s there were two drag cars in Ringwood, Victoria, Australia. Esso gas station near the clocktower had a Austin Healey BN2 with a Red-Ram Hemi and the car was named Little Red Ram. Just up the road the cheap gas station had a white gasser style Ford Customline ( 4 door ofcourse ) completely painted in candy stripes and the name Candyman .
I used to race with a couple of friends one had a 70 road runner “Rat Patrol” and the other a 64 Chrysler 300k “Never Ready”.
After I put the blower on my OT, 69 Nova in high school, I had lettered on the back panel between the tail lights, Y-TRY. That statement got me rapped up into a lot of street racing. Good times and memories.
Back in the mid 80s I was the engine man on a 67 chevelle hobby stock car. We got some sponsor money from the local Coors beer distributor. They had just came out with the Coors lite in the silver cans. We painted the car silver and named it the sliver bullet. Now this was before Coors started using that in their add campaigns.
Thanks for the great memories 34-gaz. I've known Ron and Alan Moore for 50+ years and they also still live nearby in "The Shire". A friend and I also attended the Nostalgia drags at Heathcote Park a couple of years back and we ended up having dinner with Ron Harrop ..... what an engineering genius and also a very humble man. We both learned while there how and why the "Howler" dominated in its day. It's an evening that we both will NEVER forget.
Location- Jackson Dragway, Savannah- South Butler NY ... Black '57 Chevy called "Yogi Bear" ... The name was painted on front fenders ... the expression often said by the driver... "Some times you get the Bear and Most times THE BEAR gets you!"
For me, the boating set has always had the best names on their racers; Myassis Draggin, Banzai, Down n Out, Alcohol Abuse, Golden Commode, Whisker Biscuit - (the artwork on the deck of that TFH was definitely X-rated). More recently, Problem Child TFH.
I had a 1950 ford pickup with a hopped up flat head in it. after 48000 miles it kicked a wrist out, So i was looking for a small block chevy to install. I found a 302 that was hurt and I fixed it and put a muncie 4 speed behind it. It was a lot more fun after that! Gary
Saw a 63 or 4 vette when I was a kid running at US 30 YORK drag way called SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER. It was a very radical car.
You gotta be from around here to appreciate this one, but there's a small town a few miles from here named Rio. Pronounced Rye-Oh. A friend of my bro (many years go) had a dually Chevy truck that was kind of a sleeper. Painted on the back: "the Rio Speedwagon."
We call my coupe the 'Sumbitch' because of all the skinned knuckles, burns, bruises and how many times we had to re-do the brakes, wiring, gauges, axles etc etc while building her. In reality it was nothing to do with the car and more to do with my workmanship!
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