(fav race car ever)..blue bird special..wear is this car?

sprinfield mass auto show around 1966 ...car use to run avidly at orange airport and other east coast tracks...any info ..my friend jack would sure be obliged.....33 ford...the blue bird special. hilborne injected 312...any info pics?contact ........milltown thanx you.

 

the car is still around I belive and yes tis awesome. I think I knew the guy that built it.... Saw the car in action back in the day at Sanford Dragway... fact being I have some 8MM old type movies of that car...
I'm old you see.... was head wrench on the SS Titanic... You & Gracy (?) have a great Holley-Day
The great one "Pontiac Slim"

 

I dreamed up a car alot like that one night, very cool!

 

Lance the car is still around but you wouldn't recognize it.

 

Thats the same car?!?!?!? Suddenly I'm not feeling so good.

 

WTF happened to the firewall?

 

If that's the same car it looks like they unchopped it some and Leaned the A-pillars back some. I say different car..

 

I gotta agree with Lucky - the chop is completely different

 

yeah #3. Alot of work to undo perfection.

 

How 'bout this angle..

 

Love that chopped '33 de Soto grille....

 

i realy do hope that is not the car?some folks take a perfect piece of history n my god?dont get me wrong its there cart i do understand,,,,but thats like cuttin a square roll bar off?wtf? its sad if thats the car? not tryin to hurt anyones feelins but godam?
why would you undo a perfect ledd job chop?
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.wtf wtf wtf? this shit nmakes me crazy?haha

 

thisa is what we are lookin for...return to the milltown aug 6th n 7th. sept 11 orange airport dragway reunion.

 

is this for sure the car now? i trust ya man...but dam? do you know the car?uyuyuyuyuyuyuyuyuyu

 

The black car is differant at any angle.. That's not going to change the lean on the a-pillars... Not the same car in my opinion.

 

i hope that's not the car. that car has been one of my all time faves.

 

Oops- wrong Blue Bird. I was looking for the '64 land speed record holder of Sir Donald Campbell.

 

The rear window is totally different.the BBS car has more of a chop.Can`t be the same car.

 

letts hope hope hope?anyone else out there have any info?

 

It is the same car.My friend bought it around '73 or '74 and built it to his liking.He has since restored the nose and mounted it for display out of respect for it's heritage.He's already been beaten on pretty good on here for changing the car.There is a very small percentage of drag cars and hot rods that are still around at all let alone preserved as they were in the 50's.

 

gotcha...like i say ...dont get me wrong.....just sucks to c what it was dissapear....by all means not beatin up....i tell anyone ..its yer car do what you like......i just love the orig is all.....

 

Too bad, took a hot rod and made a street rod.........

 

Why would the guy be beat on for changing it? Look at the original photo that was posted. The car is for sale. Obviously the owner wasn't too concerned about its future. You also have to realise that it was a race car. Racers would have no hesitation in changing it if it meant going faster. And selling it off as soon as it became uncompetitive. I'm guilty on both counts. Don't rag on the guy. He merely did what most rodders would have done. At least it didn't suffer the fate of so many cars on this forum. Thrown out in the woods to rot.

 

Sorry if the guy feels "beaten up," but unfortunately, that sometimes happens when you do this kind of stuff...(I will bite my tongue).....

 

looks to have a whole different cowl on it.

 

waz Rick Briggs the original builder ?
Pontiac Slim

 

not sure of the builder...also im surely not beatin up on the guy..he bought it ..turned it into what he wanted...i totaly understand....thats what its all about...just hate to c the car go..but in 73 ...the car was just a race car ....thats only a few years after the photo...
kinda like a 32 ford...5 years later ?who was to know...
so like i say ...i am surely not sayin anything remotley bad about the the guy or his car...
just stinks to know its kinda gone/???????butt yup ...not in the ground...

 

I would take the car either way. It still looks bad ass the way it is now it just needs a bigger pump under that blower. I would just like to have a real steel 5 window!!

 

Its his car, therefore he can do with it what he wants.
That being said, it brings a tear to my eye as I really like the Blu Bird version a lot more!

 

The car before becoming the Blubird belonged to Dick Morse a good friend of Rick Biggs.