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Originally Posted by intocarss
Very cool cars, I've seen pics of that Blue Caprice somewheres. You not being from the West coast, I don't know if you have ever heard of some of these Super Stock & Stock Elm people I know... Chuck Stubeck, Randy Jones, Don Bevers, Ron/Andy Durham, Jim Defrank (owner),, John Calvert, Jim Stevens, John Schloe, Jeff Jerome, the Broaddus's & Bill Blakeney..Small racing world aint it??   |
The Caprice has its original paint still, but getting a little rough in places. I need to put more decals on it,lol.
It's a good piece-I had a little advantage with that car over the other 327-250 hp combos as all of those engine combos w/ automatic trans in the other models came 'powerglide only'-chevelles, chevelle wagons, Impalas-only the Caprice came with the 3 speed THM-350.. I've got a lightweight ATI 275 first gear THM-350 in the car and I'm sure it is worth a tenth over the PG, especially considering the cars are 3800-4100 pounds. But this year the NHRA opened up the rulebook and allowed the 2-speed only offerings to run 3 speeds so my combo isn't so unique anymore. Hey, part of class racing is finding obscure and 'hard-to-find' combinations as you know....
I have heard of a few of those people...Andy Durham and his dad Ron had a great running '70 Camaro B/SA 402, now have a new V-10 Challenger. I've met Jimmy DeFrank at Indy , he just won the Super Stock national championship, seen pics of Blakeney's car....67 Camaro sbc with rally sport grill. Calvert has some nice cars, I've seen him at Indy with the T-bolt and I have his CalTrac bars on another street/strip 68 Camaro (soon to be 396/4speed A/S, or 302/4speed D/S).
Due to the dynamics of my work season I may make the haul to Pomona for the Winternats in 2014, as long as they continue to have a race in AZ shortly afterwards so I can hit 2 nationals in the same trip, so hopefully I would meet lots of West Coast racers. I've always wanted to go to Pomona as a fan, would be even better to make some trips down the 1320 there.
Not only is the racing world small, it's pretty dog gone comfy too
Why did you sell the red Super gas car? That is THE car to have for brackets and SG, although the roadster style body is taking over (sad to see imo).