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Hey, some friends of mine and I used to stand just off the strip at the traps end to se the cars go by at 200 per. We got knocked on our butts...
When my Dad bought his tricked-out 389 Tri-Power Bonneville, at the end of the options list was a box marked "Special Paint". We were told it...
Yeah, that kinda thing!
Saw an article once about Tasca Ford where they'd ordered a T-Bird with the Cobra Jet......
I'd like to think that a car built for and owned by Bill Mitchell himself would be a pretty special piece, especially since it was looked over by...
When I saw the two wagons, if I can recall 1966 well enough, they were both black with the fake wood trim outside. Both cars were on flat...
There was a legend that in '66 when Mercury had their funny car team on the road they equipped Dyno Don and Fast Eddie with custom Mercury station...
But where is that car now - or the Chevy II wagon?
I thought since 554 was a gasser (?) The Steel Eel was too. Maybe my 11-year-old sdelf got that wrong. Thanks for the hint!
Thanks, I'm a nooob here...
OK, this is The Steel Eel II: I now know it wa a chopped '38-'39 Chevy business coupe, fenderless (or at least no front fenders) that ran at the...
It was a Chevy coupe, fenderless, pointed nose, around the same period as the 554...would have been early 60's,chopped top, I wish I could...
THis wasn't 64/65's but an allied topic. I was at York US30 Dragway (Pennsylvania) when the original Logghe Comets showed up, I believe it was...
I am trying to find information about a car I vaguely remember but can't get details..it was think) a Chevy gasser coupe called The Steel Eel. Any...
OK, I'm going to try again with this... I was at the '99 California Hot Rod Reunion. Though I seldom buy "souvenirs", I did buy a really nice...
Wasn't just a "1957 cars" problem. The government got on Chrysler's tail after all the problems with rust in the Volare line, 20 years...
This is one of the reasons why you MUST have someone nearby with a key to your garage. To all who lack trust, I say look at what can happen...I...
Without question one of the finest designed Bill Mitchell era General Motors cars, period.
The "car phones" back the were all basically field telephones (i.e. radios) adapted to car use.
I'd love to know what it's like to try and drive a bubble regularly...I've seen the distortion in aircraft canopies that were designed not to have...
Edsel had a Ranchero? Wow.
I didn't mean "bigger" that way...I mean bigger as in a rear seat.
Is there any record of the answer to the biggest question back then: "Doe it REALLY run?"
No, actually I'm not thinking of that. I may recall this incorrectly, but after the Tognottis won AMBR they had another car, a 4 seat one, full...
No, this one was a bigger car than that and I think it was bright red.....
"....and names..."
I still prefer Moons on almost everything, unpolished....
I have been looking for a thread on "lost" custom cars. A lot has been said about Roth cars, but I wonder about some of the...
It sounds like a cliche, but Hardy Allen, a man I never met, changed my life. My Dad and I were "sports car" guys, and our regular race space was...
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