Art & Inspiration Restored Supermodified

This car is being fitted with an Edmunds body.

 

Brian26.....its mine!!! A buddy of my dad's that used to run the Sportsmens at Merced in the 70s gave it to me about 8 years ago, and a set of alum drum safetys for the front still on the spindles and king pins. I want to build an old San Jose style super for my back yard for the grand babies to play on...LOL

 

PS, the only thing ive been able to find out about the name is a guy who used to own cars in the Indy area.

 

Slopoke21m, does this help http://www.andersonspeedway.com/little_500_drivers/caldwell_bob.htm

 

Here is a good desk top for all you old super fans


This is a pic at Berlin, with Jim Balder at the wheel
of an Edmunds that he bought from Duane Spangler.
Years later I owned the car for about 10 yrs.
It's now somewhere in Fla, in the hands of an ole sprint racer.

 

Wow, Just found this thread. I posted my car in another thread a while back. This super was built In 59, Raced in the midwest and was restored in 1982. The kicker is its titled to be driven on the street.
These are older pix, I'll post some soon with safety racing wheels and Racemaster slicks.-Tom

If you enjoy supermodified nostalgia check out my brothers site!
www.jakessite.com

 

Back in '65 Edmunds had David Kimble draw a "convertible" 4-bar and space frame version of his super. The cage, coupe body, and coupe tail could be removed and replaced with a roll bar and sprint tail. That way it could race in either division. I don't know if any were ever built. My street-legal will be built similar to this.

I copied Kimble's renderings in Autocad.

 

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The PAUL KOLLSTEDT story is a GOOD ONE!!

Paul lived in Hamilton, Ohio (of coarse) which is on the north side of Cincy. I had a shop there for about 4 years. Nick named "Hamiltucky" or "Hamilbama" for it's Interesting array of people, Paul must have fit right in as you will read...
The style Rear end above is considered his "middle years" ones. The really earlly ones are blank and sometimes have the name Stamped in them with simple letter stamps. Paul built A LOT of rear ends over the years, his later rear end have only a "K" in them and look newer.
Now for the WILD part.. After years of building rearends, (80's) an Elderly Paul moved on to fixing lawnmowers and selling them in front of his house, on his lawn. By then, the nieghborhood had made a turn for the worse and the local "thugs" decided to start steeling "old man Kollstedt's" lawnmowers and sell them in the surrounding nieghborhoods..
Well, one day two kids took off with a mower and Paul just happened to see them do it. Paul grabbed his pistol and gave chase. He fired at the kids (Iv'e heard they were in there early teens) and actually hit one in the leg dropping the teen to the ground. Then, in front of NUMEROUS witnesses all around, Paul calmly walked up to the kid that was lying in the street and Shot him in the head killing him.
Paul, was arrested and the trail took a while as they always do. During that time, Pauls health went to shit, and by the time he was sentenced he was pretty much already dead.

I don't know if he died before he went to jail, or just after.. But that's the "Story" of the KOLLSTEDT rear-ends.


A few of us here in cincy collect them, they turn up occasionally. I think there is half a dozen around here..

 

This car has just been rebodied. Trying to find the history on it. New Paris, Iowa is on the side in vinyl.

 

Here's a replica of the Parnelli Jones' Super, built by Dennis Frings...

 

Looking for bodies for these cars? Good stuff man, I buy from this guy.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Don-Edmunds-Vintage-Race-Car-Bodies_W0QQitemZ250341766819QQcmdZViewItemQQptZRace_Car_Parts?hash=item250341766819&_trksid=p4506.c0.m245&_trkparms=72%3A727%7C65%3A12%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318

 

www.vintagesupermods.com

 

Great Site, Check out ours. NE Style. www.jakessite.com

 

Homemade flathead v8 powered supermodified from Kansas.

 

Some very cool pics and stories here. Thanks for taking the time to post them up. Not sure how I missed it the first go around...

 

I would love to hear the sounds from this car again the "Red#1" ,it screamed above the rest.Pic is from around 1963.I have not seen many posts from Illinois and Indiana would love to see pics of Gene Hensons' "Flyin Eyeball Buick" #46 from Paris,Ill.He was quite a chassis builder in the 60's & 70's some featured in HOT ROD.

 

Great thread, Roostasix! Your super is incredible. Do you by chance have a close-up picture of your front spring perch/weight jacker setup? Thanks!

 

From Iowa

 

I don't think roostasix has a weight-jacker setup on the front.

There were guys who used quick-change gears to help make weight shift.
There was also one guy who used a hub/spindle to let the car 'roll' in the turns and get more weight on the right rear. (that went out quick!)


Most cars from our part of the world(NCRA 100" terrirtory) just used a spring perch.

 

It'd be cool to see some pics of those different setups you mentioned. I can't get enough of the ingenuity found in the old race cars. The front setup on roostasix's super looks like it might be kinda like this one on an old super I bought that was run in West Texas probably in the 60s. There's a tube welded to the upper spring clamp plate with a shoulder bolt running through the tube to serve as a pivot. When the weight jacker bolts are screwed in or out it jacks the spring up or down on that side.

 

Add a ratchet and socket and you have a driver controlled weight jacker.

 

Hope you guys don't mind if I post some asphalt stuff.........

 

Now that you mention it, this setup is the most common. Had my head up 'you know where'.

 

no problems with me.

 

FYI........I listed my vintage super in the HAMB classifieds, Complete running car offered with or without mag wheels-Thanks Tom

Great thread, Lets keep it going