Hi. I am currently writing a big article for Gasoline Magazine on the history of Kellison. Any chance i can use any of the many pictures you have? Would be highly appreciated / Hank
That orange car sold out of Florida for $5k originally before going up north then being offered at a substantial increase.
So here is a guy selling vintage racing bodies, including a Kellison https://losangeles.craigslist.org/lgb/pts/d/bill-devin-ss-vintage-body-only/7144886315.html
I had a J6 body that I found in a backyard in Stockton, Ca about 20 years ago. My Dad and I had looked at the Kellison ads in HRM for years dreaming of building one. I bought it and held onto it hoping to build it when I retired. With too many projects and too little time, I sold it a couple years ago to the owner of Eagle Field. He made it into a roller and I believe it went overseas to Norway or Sweden. Mine had a full floor and at 5’11” I fit just fine in there. Hnstray is right, they were very basic kit cars with an enormous amount of work required to make them into a decent street car. Definitely not Factory Five level. There is a Kellison registry online with lots of pictures and information. A real nice running, driving one showed up locally on Craigslist or Cruising News a few months back for 16k and I really had to summon all my self control not to go look at it with cash in hand. Sent from my iPad using The H.A.M.B. mobile app
Ha ha...my new trick is to say my wife bought it for me. That way she cant yell at me for buying it The car didnt have doors and a pair showed up on here. Luck is on my side
I was one of those who saw the 1" x 2" b&w ad in '62 HRM and sent away for the brochure. Was certain I'd own a Kellison eventually. Saw one for sale, went with cash in hand. Couldn't get in, couldn't work the pedals, couldn't get out. So many things are better admired from afar. Often reality sucks! jack vines
I understand that they don’t fit 6 foot+ very well. All the cool cars were built for smaller men. My life’s work has been correcting those mistakes.
I think 1/4 mile times of 190 in 8.65 seconds qualifies Roger Hardcastle's Kellison as the most badass ever. In the mid 60's, with Pat Akins blown fuel 392, driver Gary Southern ran these times with a high gear only drive train. Way ahead of it's time, "The Stinger II" sat on a owner built titanium frame.
Didn’t happen. Went over my budget at a local auction. It was a “new” old stock body in pretty nice shape but never built. Sold for $2250. It was a J6.
Right before Covid hit, I gotta call... "There's a Kellison J6 here. Originally built in 1965, but never finished. Current owner put huge wheels on it and that's it... He wants $15k for it." I was out of town at the time, but headed over as soon as I got home. It was already sold and gone. From what I understand it had an original injected 283 in it and a muncie. If someone runs into this thing, please contact me. I think I know something about it. Sadly though, I'm not a buyer.... I've tried like hell - I just don't fit in one.
@Ryan, Don't know if it's the same one, but this one's for sale just outside of Seattle. Says it was bought in 1965, but never assembled. https://seattle.craigslist.org/sno/cto/d/snohomish-1965-kellison-astra-300xgt/7416712824.html
10 years ago I helped a friend dig a lost Kellison out of a dilapidated garage. Last driven in the late 60's. I'll try to dig up some photos. We had to move part of a wall to get it out.
Dang, what pops up 182 miles from the house when you didn't have a winning lotto ticket. Those have been on my short list since I drooled over the bodys for sale in the back of Hot Rod in the 60's. I went out to check on the body shell for one a few years ago and someone had pushed it into a brush pile with a front end loader. It had sat out in the open for years and as far as I know never got set on a chassis. That was the very bare body shell that most racers stuck on another chassis. I had a Deven body in the early 80's that was still in the raw fiberglass (all chopper gun no hand laid) when I got it. A friend's son has it now and is supposed to have it pretty well finished.
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