Good stuff LB. Notice the recent photo of the car you have labelled as Trouble. You will note it is "Wife Trouble". The guy that owned the built the car originally I believe owned a junkyard and he saved the car and it was recently put back to original mid 60s livery. Cool car for sure. Have seen the flamed car but not familiar with the Snow Job. Flip front end and good set back. Would like to know more of it's history.
Bill Brookman was the owner of the Vette. It went through a lot of changes throughout it's race career, starting out as "Wife Trouble", and then changed to just "Trouble". After it's racing career the car was restored to stock. Bill died in an accident in his salvage yard maybe 8-10 years ago (?) After his death his son had the car restored back to it's early "race" version. This photo is from 2005 when he was inducted into the PID HOF.
Thanks for the update on the car. I had only known it as Wife Trouble so thanks for the correction. Now that you mention his death it brings back a conversation that we may have heard earlier in possibly this thread that the car was being restored. Always great to see some of the drag cars saved.
Snow Job was an altered belonging to Ron Rudnik from western NY. Car was totally destroyed when it took flight nearly clearing Niagara's light poles (height wise) and almost killing Ron.
Jack Lufkin had been on the high-performance radar for a while when this story was written by LeRoi “Tex” Smith. Lufkin worked with famed car builder and racer Ak Miller, and in the late ’50s had set B/Sports speed records on Southern California’s dry lakes and at the Daytona Speed Weeks in a ’56 Vette. In 1963 he upped his game by driving this then-year-old Corvette to 193 mph at Bonneville; for ’64 he set his sights on reaching 200 mph on the salt. Did Lufkin reach his goal? A caption in the Car Craft story mentioned, almost as an afterthought, that “just after this article was prepared, he cranked on a new record at Bonneville at 204 mph.” The Nov. ’64 issue of Hot Rod magazine confirmed that Lufkin set a C/SR record of 204.248 mph at what it called a “rough, windy and wet” Bonneville Speed Trials.
Wife TROUBLE as it is now View attachment 3806947 [/QUOTE] Does anyone know what track the Dragway sign is from.
Does anyone know what track the Dragway sign is from.[/QUOTE] PID, Pittsburgh International Dragway .
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