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I wonder what O/SA represented then??
Looks like a super duty scoop which did have a Ford parts number. I see the class designation is Optional/Stock Auto which I believe was kind of...
Never found anything by the side of the road but I did leave my 1 1/16" SK Wayne combination wrench on the eastbound side of I-80 in Hackensack NJ...
Dean, did you get credit for your car on the cover?
September 1962 Car Craft......I was like 8 years old at the time!!!
I thin it was still Pete Tritak and Bill Morgan, but just advertising Tritak's shop.
The Modelhaus uptop would be for the original '62 Chevy annual, not for the new tool '62 Chevy convertible. Most of their stuff would have been...
Island Dragway..........Big Daddy Don Garlits match race with the Frantic 4.......Garlits' chute failed on I think the second round and he ran off...
I was a counterman back in the early 70s and another guy (we had a lot of part-timers) is going nuts looking at the books for something. "You...
That kit is a reissue if the old Monogram "Sizzler" ...it is called the "Slingster".
The "Early Ramchargers" photo is not a Ramchargers car.......it's a Plymouth and just says "Ramcharger" on the door. They ran Dodges in 1963.
The Logghe Brothers and Roy Steffey.....this car beat a lot of blown hemis back in the day. I think they ran a 389 CI small block or something of...
Missing Link Resin used to offer them but I'm not sure if they still do. I got some from them but that was several years ago.
They used to sell Williams tools at an auto parts store where I grew up.....I didn't know they were connected to Snap-On. I still have some...
I thought this was a CORVETTE thread!
348 was 4.125 bore x 3.25 stroke
To explain further, it's not a legal NHRA gas coupe with the altered wheelbase. It is not a legal NHRA factory experimental car (A/FX) because of...
That's NOT a gasser. It looks like an early altered wheelbase funny car (and that is NOT A/FX either) Not killing you on this , but drives me...
Looks like an FE Ford front cover there
That is awesome! You ought to post that on some of the model car boards like Spotlight Hobbies!!
Didn't they run the champ rears in funny cars for a spell in the early 70s?
Since there is also a sign for MSD ignitions in the back as well as a Holley sign that is not an old logo, I suspect that it is not an old pic
I think it was 1965.....my dad took me to Island Dragway in Great Meadows NJ....Don Garlits vs the Frantic 4 ....Garlits' chute failed on I think...
The original factory '63 A/FX super duty Tempests came with a special 4 speed transaxle originally but stuff kept breaking so guys went to the...
S/SA is actually Super/Stock Automatic. That was the top class for stock along with S/S or Super/Stock for sticks.
The Pontiac is one of Mickey Thompson's, though he would not have been driving
The CKC and AlanGreen cars were built by Bill Thomas......I am sire at the direction of the factory
I believe Rain For Rent was a sponsor of the Warren, Coburn & Miller car and they were out of Bakersfield
Ray Fox built that in 1965 when Chrysler was boycotting NASCAR as they were not allowed to run the hemi in the Coronet/Belvedere due to a rule...
That is actually Rex White in the test mule for the NASCAR 427 mystery motor at the GM Arizona testing grounds, I believe, not a drag car.
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