60'-70's Vintage Oval Track Modifieds

Ugly = Fast!

But I don't care for Indy car or Champ cars nor Formular 1, etc.

 

Rich I've been really worried about my father lately, he just doesn't seem like the same man I grew up knowing. First there was this car that I always knew he liked.

But it seems like the past few years his taste in hot rods has really gone over board on the emtreme!

I thought it couldn't get worse, but he sent me a photo of his dream car, this kustom. I think he's losing it! Rich you got to help a brother out! It's bad!

I guess you get the point, but to hammer it home one more time, this is he's daily driver!!!

Red Fox is turning over in his grave!

love ya pops! now let's get back to modifieds!

 

Son, you will pay for this!

 

Dale Merz... Fred Smith photo

 

Bugs Stevens in Joe Brady's car

 

Bugs @ Shnagri-La in Kozela's car

 

Bugs in Kozela's coupe

 

Fans of the Ed Cloce Hemi Cuda Modified will love this..(even Emil may like this)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_uW--Ewh6A

 

Cool model!!!!!!
Are you going to keep us updated?
Dub in a sound track, that would be cool...

 

Tuesdays batch of photos!

Merv Treichler

Peter Fiandaca

Ray Hendrick

Roger Hill

Geoff Bodine

 

Geoff Bodine

Bobby Vee

Roger Hill

Ken Meisenhelder

Maynard Troyer

 

Ron Narducci

Sharkey and Narducci

Trenton checkers Geoff Bodine

Gene Bergin

Old Bridge

 

riverside park

 

Old Bridge[/QUOTE]

Old Bridge was long gone by then, New Egypt Speedway, that's Wally Dallenbach Jr in the 35, yes that Wally Dallencbach Jr - he was terrible in the modified; he hit everything but the ambulance!.

 

Were starting to get well into the eighties....

 

Sorry, not me something I found. I beleive the guy builidng the model is Jean Guy Chartrand's brother.

 

I know the gentleman that has the real modified that the model is built after. It is actually the "Hemi Cuda II". I will dig up the resto pics. Until then...

This is the Hemi Cuda II. You can tell from the square tube, blue chassis. John Grady photo

 

This is the original Hemi Cuda with the early 50's Chevy frame. Love the injectors! John Grady photos

 

Rich I just went by what the photo script was at the time when I photobucket'd it. is that a term??? might be a new one! It is new eygpt, I have some mods from the 80's but the bodies were when they were in transition of the 70's into the troyer era modifieds we see today! I'll try to keep most of them before then, I have so many but a lot of gremlins, pintos and vegas ran into the 80's, even some coupes here and there!

 

The first late model body for the time at Thompson was a 66 Cuda fast back on a Chrysler chassis run for a short time by Elery Bates he ran torsion bar chassis under most of his modifieds even the old coupes

 

weds photos I'm going through the batch and right now the ealry 80's is up but most are car that were transition phase and had been used in the late 70's also had bodies of the same era before the J-style.

Butch Perry

Carl Pasteryak

Clay Collins

Dan Jivanelli, good friend and still one heck of a wheelman!

Dave Thomas

 

Bill Park

Bobby Allison

Bob Riley

Brain Ross, I heard a story this weekend, maybe Rich or someone can back it up? Brain Ross retired from modifieds because they were too fast and not safe for the drivers at the speeds they were carrying with the equipment they had...

Bruce D'Alessandro

 

art davis

bob park

 

Dennis Gagliardi

Dick Ceravolo

Dick Dubois

Gail Barber

George Murray

 

George Savory

Gino Spada

Greg Prentiss

George Prentiss

Greg Sacks right before he headed for the big time and took it by storm by winning in Daytona in what some call a fluke win, but still a win is a win and it put his name on the map. Too bad personal demons kept him from advancing his career. He was also used as an extra for Days of Thunder and some material of his career was used as a premise of the movie. One time he had an accident and his helmet rolled down pit lane during practice, Rick Hendrick was too afraid to look to because he thought Greg's head was still inside of it.

 

Jeff Spraker

Jerry Cook

Jerry Pearl

Jim Landry

Jimmy Spencer...yes that Jimmy Spencer, I know it's a later modified but wanted to show people who don't know, Jimmy was truly "Mr. Excitement" and gained his name during his modified days!

 

Joe Bubbico

Ken Bouchard

Ken Bouchard

John Rosati

John Kerslake

 

John Falconi

Joe Tiezzi

Kirby Monteith

Larry Lafayette

Leo Cleary

 

Marty Radwick

Maynard Troyer

again!

Mike Beebe

Mike Stefanik modified hot shoe

 

I gotta say it... I am not a fan of pintos , but they make one of the best looking modifieds!
Judging by all the different ones, there must not be a stock pinto left in the northeast!