Anyone out there have pics. of the"Jolly Dolly" 1939 Chevy Coupe Gasser

Looking for some pics. of the "Jolly Dolly". This car was and is still a great inspiration to me. I own a full ch***is '39 that I have had since High School. The G***er of Bob Bernardon's has sparked the fire to get mine done!

 

Rodder's Journal did a full feature on that car if you can find it....I'll take a look to see what issue. One of my all time favorite Chevs.

 

Thanks, That would be great

 

Yahoo search engine.....Jolly Dolly Chevy....click on images..enjoy.

 

Here it is when it was featured in hot rod magazine.

 

Thanks! very cool

 

Ask and ye shall receive!!!!

1958 Old Dominion Speedway, Man***as, Virginia

 

1967 Capitol Raceway Park, Millersville, Maryland

 

Mid-60's Aquasco Speedway, Aquasco, Maryland

 

2011 Indianapolis Raceway Park, Indianapolis, Indiana

 

2011 Indianapolis Raceway Park, Indianapolis, Indiana

 

2011 NHRA Gatornationals, Gainesville, Florida

Invited guest as part of the NHRA 60th Anniversary Display

 

2011 4 WIDE Nationals, ZMax Raceway, Charlotte, North Carolina

Invited guest as part of the NHRA 60th Anniversary Display

 

2011 Special Drag Car Display, Simeon Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

 

2006 NHRA "Salutes the G***ers"
Indianapolis Raceway Park, Indianapolis, Indiana

Yours Truly on the left and the late Bob Bernardon on the right with his car at Indy. We lost him 6 months later to cancer. Great guy and a wonderful car. In the last 55 years (1957-2012) that car has had two owners: Bob Bernardon and current owner Charlie Gauthier (Bob's good friend for many years). The car is in good hands!

 

Awesome! Thanks for the pics, Oldracer.

 

One more, just for fun. This happened quite a few times back in the old days.

Pocono Drag Lodge Match race adverti*****t-Eastern Drag News 1965.

 

beautiful car!

 

Jolly Dolly, One of my all-time favorites. That car was always impeccable.

 

You can't talk about famous cars from the DC area without including the "Jolly Dolly" These are my favorite shots that were taken at the Ram Rods DC armory show. Check out the coils, Spalding Flame thrower and the generator. You want to know what a show car looked like in the 60s....this is it. Notice it still had tags back then. It changed over the years but it was always top drawer. IIRC it has a BBC now.

 

Tommy....not any more! The current owner has put it back almost exactly like that engine photo. Hilborn Inject Small Block just like in the heyday. Many of the parts cam from Bob Bernardon's attic. His wife Dolly (that's where the car name came from) has turned over tons of stuff to Charlie Gauthier, the new owner. I think that Spaulding Flamethrower Distributor was in the pile of parts.

The right thing has happened to this car!!!

 

Thats really cool I have never seen pics of it before .Thanks

 

That's great news. I had a Spalding back then on a 38 Chevy coupe and idolized the Jolly Dolly.

 

Jolly Dolly Engine earlier this past year. Injector stacks have since been chromed. The aluminum set-back firewall is the original one done by Bob Bernardon in about 1964 or 65.

 

New owner on the left, Charlie Gauthier sorting out the new set-up.

 

Original Interior (50+ years old). I believe everything in there is original except maybe that Tach. It's gone now!

 

Injector stacks now chromed

 

2011 NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion Bowling Green, Kentucky

Jolly Dolly picked as one of the "Top 50"

Charlie Gauthier on the left, Tony Thacker (center) Directer of the NHRA Museum in Pomona, and the lady from SoftSeal, one of the event sponsors.




That's it for now....anybody else got any ??

 

Is it still in the DC area or is it down south near you?

 

It is in The Plains, Virginia just outside the Washington, D.C. area. Same town as Jim and Allison Lee if your remember the old Top Fuel days.