Found Dads '56 Chevy Gasser!

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[Butch M]

Rick you are in are thoughts prayers sorry for your loss.

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Thanks Butch. I need to spend some more time with Dennis Coker, see if he wants to go to Mooneyes with us and see his old girl dance again.

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Ok everyone, since we found out a couple months back that Yesterday Child was NOT our dads old car, and we found and met Dennis Coker, the original builder, we would like to try and find the "Panneton Jones & Christensen car. Again, it is believed to have been sold to two Burbank police men around '67-'68. It was in grey primer with stock steel "roller"
wheels on it. It had a fresh straight axle and one piece glass nose. I know that this is rather vague but its a start. The pic of this Altered '56 I believe from Pomona may have been the car after it was sold. Anyone have any more info on this "Blatt & Windman or Windmar" car? Now that our Dad has passed on, it would mean even more if we could find it. Thanks for any consideration/help. Ric. PS. The two other guys were Dick Jones originally from Glendale, Ca. last know living in Acton, Ca. and Chris Christensen, originally from Glendale, Ca. and last known living in Murrietta/Temecula, Ca. Chris went on to race injected Funny Cars and won the '89 (I believe) Div. 7 crown driving the Miner Bros. Alky Funny Car.

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PS. Maybe somebody remembers who's competition #515 was.

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Here are the old pics again for reference.

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BTTP, Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

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Bumpity bump

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Bump, See you at MoonEyes!

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Never got a good pass in at Mooneyes, blew the tires off and missed 2nd on the first pass, and had fuel delivery issues on 2nd and 3rd pass. Good news is I dropped the clutch 3 times a 6500 rpm and didn't break anything. I'm pretty sure I've got the fuel delivery thing sorted out and also need to take some counter weight off the clutch. We're gonna hit some thursday nights at Irwindale soon for some test and tune and get ready for March Meet and Dragfest. The Cokers came by late afternoon at Mooneyes and brought there Pomona Drags jackets from the 60's. They also finally found their photo album for the '56 that has about 40 photos that I'll share as soon as I get them. Looks like we'll probably have the car on display at the Grand American Roadster Show at Pomona end of January. Dennis and his wife are gonna help me get a display together with all their memorabilia and trophy's. Should be lots of fun.

[33hotrod]

Met you at Mooneyes! Car looked great. I wouldn't change the look! See you at the March meet. Stan with the blue 55 gasser.

[speed v8]

gotta love these gassers. nice.

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Originally Posted by 33hotrod

Met you at Mooneyes! Car looked great. I wouldn't change the look! See you at the March meet. Stan with the blue 55 gasser.

Thanks Stan.

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Dennis and Carrol Coker came by for a visit over the week end and brought me a few surprises. The first pic of the car is the original Tutone
White/Maroon. Then someone pulled a left hand turn in front of him, so he
repaired the sheet metal and painted it Bahama Blue. The Riverside Hot Rod Magazine Nationals trophy is from the Inagural race in 1964. The pic in Hot Rod Deluxes year book is the same race where he won E/Gas and this trophy. The two tall trophys are for class at the '62 and '64 Winternationals.

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..,later, when he replaced the rearend with a 57 Pontiac, he cut the rear wheel wells, changed the trim from 210 to 150 and painted it red.

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.., Carrol his wife said she got tired of seeing the black steelies on the front with Halibrands on the rear, so she borrowed the money from her grandmother to buy the five spoke mags for the front (Riverside picture). Later, they had the car "professionally lettered" by Dennis/Chris Jones (can't remember the first name)

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Dennis nor his wife know yet, but I'm taking the '56 to Larry Fators tomorrow and have him put Dennis name, competition #424 and class designation back on the car. He won't know until he see's it at the GNRS deal at Pomona. PS. They don't own a computer so don't go tell'n em

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The '64 Hot Rod Magazine Championships at Riverside and the '63 or '64 Winternationals chasing Ron Madella's '64 Mopar Wagon during the eliminator.

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bump

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Dennis name and competion number back on the '56 46 years later. I took some liberty with the "B/G" as that is the class the car would have been in
had he kept it and progressed into faster classed with 400 + cubes. Can't wait to see the look on his and Car





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