Event Coverage Tom McMullen "Fun Run" Orange, CA 1982 Pics

Ok, reposting this old thread with the proper title...got these old photos in a box from Stan Betz some years ago and found some more today. Thanks to SoCalMerc who identified it as Tom McMullen's "Fun Run".
Cars are driving through a check point at the old Betz Speed & Color, 1470 West Katella in Orange, CA. Photos were developed in May of '82 but they could have been shot earlier. Hard to believe it's nearly 30 years ago.
None of them are labeled...thought maybe some HAMBers would recognize the cars, owners, shotgun riders....etc....any of the cars still around?








check out that running board mounted antenna.....cool.







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Bitchinn, Thanks for sharing

 

Pretty sure this is my buddy,Jack Becker. Still owns the car,but now has WWW's and steelies on it. Next time I see it i'll post a pic. He usually brings it to my Village Idiots deal. This must be in his Burt Reynolds days,haha!


Just found this,hahaha!!!!

 

HaHa... oh man that dude's a dead ringer for Burt in the Bandit era....even the glasses are the same.


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I just e-mailed the pic to Jack! He laughed his ass off!!!

 

Do you have any more pictures from that run ? I was there and have a bunch of pictures . I will have to dig them up so I can post some .

 

I think that's all I have...if you find yours post em up in this thread so they stay together.

...that kid in your avatar reminds me of Ross from The Patty Duke Show.



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I think this is Gene Stark's car...



Neal

 

that's a great looking car, does he still have it ?
...that's Betz next to the car in the white shirt.



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This looks Boyd built.....

 

Iwas at one of his first "fun runs" in the 70's!!!

 

This '29 belonged to the late Chuck Dunmead, long time member of the LA Roadsters. The car is still in the family.

 

Could this be the car that Paul Gommi owns? It was in The Rodders Journal a while back?

 

mans thats soo 1982..lol ..I was 10 years old..yikes

 

I think you are right about Paul Gommi...I need to see if I can find a pic of Gene'e car from that same time period.

 

Great memories. Thanks for posting.
chuck

 

1982 ???... that's about 70 pounds ago.

 

Not a whitewall in the bunch. That's what I remember. The heart of the resto-rod era. Thanks for the memories.

 

Here's a few I dug up . I'm pretty sure these are from '82 , I know I'll be corrected if they aren't .

 

I am going to have to go ahead and correct myself on these pictures . These are from the '83 Toms Fun Run , sorry about that . I'm gonna put a few more up anyway , just for the hell of it .

 

Holy Cats! Talk about memories! I went to one of those runs (Toms or Fun Run-can't remember) with a buddy about then and we ended up in the publishing office parking lot...I think it was on La Palma near Brookhurst in Anaheim about that time wasn't it? Just checkin' my memory... Um, how bad is it?

 

The T roadster looks like a car Brizio built for himself...saw it here in Omaha at the "world of wheels" car show.

 

..that's a slick looking roadster, the track nose is awesome.....wonder where it is today.

Looks like the Stroker McGurk hats were really in vogue then. Thanks for adding those pics Grandpa!




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Here's a few more . '83 Fun Run

 

Ok , I will try again ..........

 

A few more ..........

 

Rocky, You might be right but my memory of that car puts it in the ownership of Don Varner from the west coast. Now we have 2 old farts with different memories. Did you ever think that would happen? Someone come on and set the record straight.

Frank

 

That's hilarious!

 

I think you're right about it being Don Varners car .

 

I think a Tom's Fun Run thread would be cool ( ok funny). Graduated in 83 ,TFR and " Street Rods" where so cool then. Traditional rods (at that time) just needed alittle UPDATING. I was 1 of them. I got cured. Thank God.