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Rich Guasco, RIP.

 

Tommy Ivo and Tony Nancy.

 

IIRC, Rich still had the roadster until his passing.

 

Doug Gilbert from Newington, Connecticut.

 

Mooneyes dragster in the near lane.

 

Wrong way to tow. Not enough weight on the trailer tongue.

 

Bill Neuman's roadster ?

 

Hello,

Nice find of a rare color photo. I did a story on the famous inline So Cal motor race car owned and built by Ray Callejo from Northern California. Most of the drag racing world knew of the altered sedan with one motor running in the B/Altered class. But then, perhaps the “too Much” was a new meaning:


This unusual Model A sedan needs a little more information. It was built and run by Ray Callejo from the SF Bay Area. It was in a lot of car shows and as the early Drag News ad/photo shows, competed in the Altered Sedan class in those early days.

There are B/W photos, but not any color ones available…

The odd aluminum covering below the body and doors may be to cover up the other So Cal injected motor sitting closer to the driver sitting in the far reaches of the sedan. As the photo looks, an altered set up with 25% set back was standard and this one was a good build from Ray Callejo. It has been well documented in various articles and photo arrays.

From other posts from the past:

Here are a couple of drawings and some actual facts found in my research of old Altered Coupes and Sedans. There were a few multiple engine Altereds and this was one of the most popular during our time at the drags and in car shows, but it was located in the S.F. Bay Area.

The drawings and SBC info were posted on the Friday Art Show back in August, 2020. We had never seen it in person, despite the fact that they were sponsored by Clay Smith Cams from So Cal, So Cal near our old house.

Ray Callejo had/has a well rounded background in hot rods and drag racing. He was at the Fremont Dragstrip with his 1931 Model A Sedan and a 283 C.I. SBC that ran in the B/Altered class. This was the Altered Coupe and Sedan Class many years before they dropped the designation and included Altered Roadsters.

Jnaki

The research shows that the copyright for all show photos belongs to a person that has not made them public.


Note 2:

Friday Art
The old designation of BA-7 is no longer correct and should have read A/A-7. (with 584 c.i.)

The Model A Sedan with the twin 292 SBC motors was featured in Car Craft and Hot Rod Magazines back in the early 1960s.It has been a long time. YRMV