Ultimate barn find - Smirnoff digger

This is just to cool!

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Most definitely cool!!!

 

Wow.......

 

Any progress since the video?

 

that's beyond words !!!!!!

 

It's cool that it's a video and not just a couple still shots.

 

thanks for posting this kerry.

 

I would just like to see it cleaned up with soap and water ,

Put some air in the tires an see if they whole air....

It would look much better then.

Step 1,this vid.

Step 2, clean it up .

Step 3, restore as needed.

AND show us the video..

THANK YOU very much.

 

one beautiful rail,Good find,good luck

 

Amazing.

 

Absolutely cool! It was nice to see a well composed video, and it does make me want to see part 2. O/T though, Were those giant radial cylinders from an aircraft engine back on the back shelf by the parachute? It's almost as much fun to see the stuff in peoples shops as it is the main subject sometimes.

 

Groovy!

 

Looks to be primarily Red White & Blue, how appropriate for today! Thanks!

 

Goose Bumps !!!!!!!

 

http://cacklefest.com/Smirnoff.shtml

Link to story of the restoration,This one of my favorite cars of the eria
Ive see it both at Bakersfield and Beech Bend HRR's

Tony

 

Awesome...even has a Tony Nancy seat.


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That's what I thought, is that a unique one off tail section? Restoration looks great.

 

thanks for posting this up Kerry. very cool

 

Someone needs to rescue the two Eldorado's sitting there also. My stock '69 is a fine over the road car and as they are lighter than RWD cars has near muscle car performance. 0-60 7.5 sec.
Lots of gold in that garage. Big radial engine barrels hiding there too!

 

Wild car. And a great story to boot!

 

Thanks Kerry. I love that car.

Cool little story about the tail. When they picked up the car from the body guy. I "think" Sorrell? He had cut the roll cage off of the car to make the body lower and better looking to him. And they wernt happy about it. So new cage went on and the driver wasnt happy about hanging out. So someone else took the seat.

 

In my humble opinion, The most beautiful top fuel car ever built

 

Way Cool

 

I would've rather heard the people's comments instead of the music

 

Thanks for posting the restoration link Tony. This car is just plain amazing, and to be found as complete and original as it was... just wow. Bill Pitts told me that when they went in to see it the deal wasn't sealed so he took the video, just in case the tomb got sealed up again.

 

Super cool! Too bad that Hemi was AWOL, but man! What a find!

 

The music ****s.
Secret storage facility? Ha ha WTF?
the video ****s.
Anyone who thinks this is a cool video is probably under 30 years old........

 

Picture dont do it any justice either,You should see it in person

Tony

 

What music? All I noticed was the digger. It had to be pretty secret to sit unmolested for 35 years. I dream of finding something like that.

I'm 45 btw.

 

Das koolsville!!!!!!!!!