Hot Rods The ALTERED thread

Pure Hell Hemi power

 

Pure Hell Chevy powered

 

In the Hemi picture, Ol' Dale is working that right rear pretty hard!

 

Looks like what Brain was talking about in this thread https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/rebuilding-after-the-crash.991650/page-143

About the slicks sticking too hard and putting too much twist into them until they over run them then spring back.

 

And that leads to tire shake.

 

From above.
That's cool. Should have put at least some of the front sheet metal back on though.



Mike

 

Bill Croft, Sydney Australia. He later ran this "T" seen here at the same track (Castlereagh aka Sydney International)


Roo

 

Rooman, that looks interesting. How fast was it?

 

Reath Automotive

 

Interesting cardboard roof extention

 

This one has appeared in a couple of HAMB threads in the past but so far nobody has managed to identify it.

Roo

 

Identify what, the car ?
Not sure about the hood side panels, but the grill shape looks to be 36 Ford. Hard to tell about the body.

Mike

 

The car is obviously a 36 Ford five window, that part is easy. What I was talking about was the driver/ history etc.

Roo

 

It looks like someone had to make some on site adjustments to the roof height to get their car into a cl*** where it would be compe***ive. I have seen photos of this being done at El Mirage but although the background looks correct for that location this looks like a drag strip pit area and not the dry lake surface there. The slicks also suggest a drag strip.

Roo

 

That might have been early Inyokern, like you said it looks like Mojave desert.

 

The '36 coupe looks like a slightly later version of the Culver Sandblasting C/A, maybe '62-'63? It must have run better than it looked, it won it's cl*** at the Winternationals in 1961.

 

Well, I have a little bit of information to add. The car was run by A & M Racing and it had an injected early hemi as seen in this shot from the 63 Winternationals. The Culver car that won cl*** in 61 was a Willys four door sedan with Oldsmobile power.




Roo

 

Well squeze me...
You DID say "identify the car"..!
So...I did.

Mike

 

Note steering through door

 

Good looking car. The guys over at the "Cowl Steering - Just Stop" thread would have a field day with it.

 

I saw the ‘36 identified another thread here and the name listed as C/A winner in a 1962 Hot Rod mag so I put two and two together but didn’t get four I guess, lol.
When I was a kid I loved the compe***ion cars that had teeth or faces painted on ‘em like that. These days I’m happy when I see a name instead of a corporation on the side.


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Going to take a while to get out the left side of that '34 coupe.

 

Above picture -

What the hell...
A Bantam body, a Chrysler engine...and a Chevy sticker on the grill shell ?
Musta been a left over from an earlier incarnation.

Mike

 

Maybe an engine upgrade w/o changing the bodywork.

PS, have you looked at the size of a Chrysler roadster body of that era? Bricklike areodynamics.

 

i believe that is the monkey motion car. back in the thread it is running a chevy verses the walker and geery bantum.

 

Correct. Gil Hayward's car originally had a blown 327 Chevy before the 392 Chrysler and was driven by Bob Gregg, Ron McKibben, Lyle Webster, Maury Hoover and Ray Higley. It may have also become Jim Miles' Magic Muffler entry later in its life.

Roo