Hot Rods REWARD to the first person to find this magazine!

Has anyone checked the April 1969 edition of Car Craft? According to the cover it has Winter Drags Coverage:

 

Have you found the magazine article. Talked to G***er Louie this weekend, the tension car has been restored in to a show car. I saw the pictures of the 3 cars you posted on a display board at the World of Wheels show in Omaha this past March beside the Tension car. I know I have the magazine the article is in. If I remember correctly, the article was named flashback look at 55-57 Chevys. I have too many magazines to search threw. If I see the Tension car, I`ll ask the owner for info. Or maybe sombody from Omaha can do it sooner.

 

Gotta love the red, the white and the blue!
God Bless America!!

 

where in iowa did you locate the 57 chevy

 

Already found the magazine a while back... That wasn't me with the pics on the board, never been out that way. Was the Tension car restored or the Good In-Tension car? I know the latter was restored to a stock '57 and sold. I'm looking for what happened to the white tension car. Thanks,
-Dean

 

All I know is at the World of Wheels show in Omaha Nebraska, The pic of the 3 57 `s you posted on on page number 1, post number 1 was on a display board in front of a 57 Chevy 2-dr hardtop. there was also a pic of a 57 goin down a dragstrip. So I`m guess`in it`s one of those cars or has direct ties to it.

 

The original builder/owner of the Tension car lives in Omaha, he displays the pics of it and his old rebels car club jacket, but unfortunately hes a complete *****! I tryed talking to him about it and obviously Im not in the In crowd or not in his FINANCIAL group of friends, HE IS NOT WHAT I CONSIDER A "car guy" IF HE CANT TALK ABOUT HIS OWN OLD CAR TO SOMEONE WHO ASKS ABOUT IT, after he takes the time to frame a picture of it and display it at a World of Wheels show! He could probably give lots of info on "The Inbomber" but, hes to ****in GOOD to give any old info out to someone other than an old raisin head friend!

 

I know who you are talking about then! He is the one person who I have not personally spoken with yet on the matter. The white '57 you saw on display is a Bel Air hardtop and has no direct ties to the original Tension or Patrick Bros. Teams, just a street rod that he now owns.
-Dean

 

Did you ever get the info you were looking for on the white Tension car? If not, I know where it is now...it's in the hands of a guy in Denison, Iowa, and it's being restored to it's as-raced appearance. I've tried with little success, to get info on that car by searching the H.A.M.B. I saw it run at the Sioux City drag strip in the mid 60's when I was a high school kid, and it made a huge impression on me.