This thing is coming together! The interior showed up today, or at least part of it. It's going to be exactly as raced in 1969 down to every last detail. What do you guys think! -Dean
Sure looks like it's comin' along nice. Monsterflake, I could be wrong, but seeing the holes in the 1/4's for the Chevrolet scripts and the short spears I think that car may be a 210 hardtop. They're a pretty rare style today as a lot of em' were just made into Bel Air's.
Yup it is a 210 hardtop with a California frame. Just as a little re-cap here is a pic from the '69 NHRA Springnationals, which is what the car will look like again, and two shots of it from last fall. Hard to believe it sat in the woods for 30 years! -Dean
Looks great! I probably missed it in one of your other post's about this car, but how did you come about finding this? Did you know about it's history already, or did you find that out after taking ownership? Just wondering.. I think it's a killer find and VERY cool you are bringing it back to it's former glory. Nice job! Tony
Thanks! Tony-there are some older posts on it, but we bought the car from a guy out in Iowa. It was run out of Omaha Nebraska and won H/Stock at the 1968 NHRA Indy Nationals and was retired after the '69 season. It also raced at the '68 Winternationals in Pomona, '69 Springnationals in Dallas, '69 Indy Nationals, Cornhusker Raceway, Sioux City, Thunder Valley, Colorado, Kansas etc.. I have talked to Don and Ken Patrick, and Ken Nelson who owned/raced the car, as well as Fred Anderson who helped build it and piloted it at Indy, and Yukio Ando who built and tuned the injected 283. -Dean
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