History Comp Coupes, All but forgotten?

Sure looks like a Ford FE or MEL because of the exhaust posts and flange

 

i bet your right , i wonder, a friend of mine ownes a bantam with a lincoln in it, i wonder if this is that car,before it was wrecked? i will do some checking.

 

Anybody?

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i believe somebody on here said at one time that it was still around.

 

here's one I picked off Facebook.

 

Recent, but cool?

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Aggravation

 

that picture above loudbang posted, i asked al about the bumper hitch on the 59 chevy, he said who the hell would do that!

 

Over the years I’ve owned 14 different 59 Chevys and all but one of them had a hitch like that although they did have channel iron that went Just below the bumper and was welded to the frame rails but were all bolted to the bumper like that I think you could have towed a Mobile home with most of them lol. The real thing in this pic that gets me is the weight stack on the front of the comp coupe

 

The weight stack caught my attention too. Some friends of mine raced dirt cars in a class that didn't allow weight jacking devices. One of them had a tire shop, so they would melt old wheel balance weights and cast them in different thicknesses in Chevrolet valve covers to bolt on the frame rails when they wanted to change wheel loading.

 

Looks like Al might have had a problem with wheel stands.

 

posted by Ryan in a blog post about Texas cars

https://www.jalopyjournal.com/?p=43768

 

The 34 5 window is an altered. Before they were designated Altereds, they were "Fuel Coupes". A/FC means a big motor, or blown motor Fuel Coupe. Fuel Roadsters were "Hot Roadsters". The class markings on early photos of Pure Hell show A/HR on the side. Of course this all went away when NHRA started combining classes and they all were just Altereds.

 

15 OZ

 

So, front wings not invented yet? Allowed? That's quite a stack of weights on the nose.

 

No, wings came much later.

 

Desperation.......

 

Looking for history and old pictures of this comp coupe. ran in the evensville indiana area late fifties or early sixties. lots more pictures on my face book page under kevin masters

 

That is cool. Once you gather the history on this one need to do a thread on it and back story. Something about an old original racer that has been hiding for decades brings a smile to my face.


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Cool find what are your plans for it?

 

Frank Pedregon Sr.

Roo

 

posted by 40ragtopdown in the traditional photos thread

 

posted by 40ragtopdown in the traditional photos thread

 

This one keeps popping up in various threads on the HAMB but nobody has managed to identify it yet. The photo looks like it may be from Continental Divide Raceway but that is the best that I can come up with.

Roo

 

Roo, about all I can tell you is it belonged to "Pop" Marner from around the Denver area I believe.
Saw it at several car shows around the early 70's.

Mick

 

All that I have managed to unearth is that Don Hackenberg drove for Marner at one stage. The car was listed as being a Fiat with a blown 392 hemi so I am wondering if it was basically the same car.

Roo