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As an example of this, look at the stars and stripes S/360 coach (formerly the Snyder/Warren #44 and Diffendorf 26, better known as the Flying...
The first time I ever went to Riverhead in 1985 (I think it was), I saw this car and Frank Saladino's Pinto pull out of the pits and thought "What...
Bill - agreed 100%. I grew up at Shangri-La and Dutch (along with Bullet Bill Strosahl) was a favorite. Dutch was one of those drivers that I...
Added some info above.
I'm pretty sure somebody does... looking pretty awesome Bill!!! What car was the source chassis for it?
Hmmm... Do you or the club have the serial number off of the original motor anywhere? May be worth going over to his place and asking him again...
Paging leadfoot4... Leadfoot4 to the black and gold courtesy phone... The car was built by Dave Nichols and the driver was Lon Boyer, aka...
Respectfully offer him double the scrap price for them, cash on the barrelhead, and guarantee him they'll be off his property within a week.
This thread just reminded me... when I was in 5th grade (around 1970 or so) they opened up the Boys Club craft room and they had a stack of...
Think mine was one of the Lindberg 1/32nd scale 1940 Fords. First one I successfully completed was called the "Gran Turismo," a blue plastic 1/24...
Hey Bill! I forget where I read about the history of that car, but it was an original Long Island car that was last run by Bob Krollage and sold...
SWEET!!! Looks fast just sitting still. Seriously fine work!
Amazing what's possible when they allow innovation by individuals and don't micromanage the rule book to the point where the only cars in the...
Al Hansen's #4, the #25 pictured above, and Joe Mammolito's #31 (as well as George LeBlanc's #22 in New England) all had that same sude stripe...
Apparently and on good authority there was an area where at least one Model T and an old modified stock car or two were used for fill in my...
Sweet! I'll always have a soft spot for '68 Fairlanes.
No worries - once you ship it to Australia it'll right itself. :D Nice looking Rambler - a friend of mine has a silver blue one like that, it's a...
Hope you find it - my dad had a 1930s sprint car that he and his dad put together with a 4Port Riley in it. Car's lost to the annals of time...
Cool, thanks for the info! I know that Howard Conkey of Show Car Engineering in Waterloo, NY was supposedly associated with the chassis. Howard...
Yes, that's the one - check out the following link from RetroRockets from a few years back:...
The summer of 1973 was great - Grant's Dept Store bought up scads of the annual MPC kits from previous years and were selling them for 69 cents up...
The street legal mod was Dan Willmes' late 1970s Spencer Speedway asphalt car that he made street legal. He's also done up a replica of Don...
Sweet! I was gonna say, what's your buddy need that for if he's building dirt billboards, err, bodies... ; Mastering one of those is going to be...
Last I knew, this car still exists and was being restored in Michigan.
THANKS!!! I've been trying to remember that link for days as I wanted to put it in the initial post. Spent hours looking through there a while...
hey Kevin - Good to see you here. Been following your restorations over at LaSheef's site - fine work!
Hopefully not too far off topic. I was looking through some of the junk yard threads and old race car threads, and when I was reading this...
Shangri-La Speedway, Owego NY - half mile asphalt oval that ran from 1946-2005 when the owner decided to mine it for gravel. Replaced by a new...
That looks amazing - the balance is about perfect. Maybe Ford shouldn't have killed off Mercury but made something that looks like that instead....
An article on Cliff Kotary by Jeff Ackerman of the Midstate Antique Stock Car Club can be found here:...
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