Jim Oddy's Austin is Alive and Angry !

Thanks Lee here is a pic of the Can-Am Thrush Award won on 7/5/69

 

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The Nostalgia AA/Gassers group is rolling like a freight train anyone who is planing on running with us this year check out our web site look at the guidelines & if you have any questions just ask our 1st race is less than 1 month away <LI nodeIndex="1">May 11 & 12 &#8211; New London Dragway, Lynchburg, Virginia

Trouble

 

Here is a pic of the trophy Jim Won at the US Nationals in 1965 this was given Before the Wallys. A full story will be out on the 60 + old trophy's found in the attic of Jims Old shop

Enjoy

 

The Nostalgia AA/Gassers are pleased to announce their participation at the 2013 Funny Car Nationals Presented by Discount Tire at US 131 Motorsports Park in Martin, Michigan.
The event will take place September 6-7, 2013 and will be an 8 car qualified field for all club members.
The club will be part of an action packed show which also features the DragRacingOnline.com AA/FC Challenge, Great Lakes Nostalgia Alcohol Funny Cars plus Nostalgia Nitro Fuel Altereds and much more.
This is the first time the club will be running at US 131 Motorsports Park and we&#8217;re sure the place will ROCK! It may just be THE nostalgia event in the east of the year! Hold on tight


The Oddy Austin will be Restarting up its real deal tour 2013 soon. The detailes will be on the HAMB but US 131 is going to be one of the dates for sure. We had to post pone some dates do to health issues I will Keep you's posted

Thanks Trouble​

 

Hey John, it was good to meet up with you and talk for a few minutes while I was out at the Veterans Golden Age Games. The car looks sweet. Hopefully you can make it to the "Dover Dragstrip Nostalgia Drags in August.

Thanks again, Pat

 

B-Utiful-Beast! Congrats ~sololobo~

 

Hi Pat it was good to see You & the Wife had a good time Trouble

 

Have you been approached about displaying the car at the Syracuse Nationals racecar display?

 

Have you been approached about displaying the car at the Syracuse Nationals racecar display?

No the Oddy Austin Real Deal tour 2013 has been cut short do to back operations I have some places booked for 2014 hope to get to a lot of the events that I had to miss do to back issues

 

That's the Blue Suede Cruise. I'll be there with some of the GRS people. See you there John!

Art

 

Look foward to seeing Ya Artie !!!! Trouble

 

Thats a beautiful car, congrats on the build.

 

Met John at the Blue Suede Cruise through a buddy of mine from Ohio. Let me tell you that car is so bitchin, it beautifully done and is flat bad ass. I was told John put a lot of work into it and it shows. Super guy-super car.

 

Thanks for the kind words that was one hell of a show. The Nostalgia AA/Gassers showed that its all about the racing. What a kick ass AA/Gas race!!


Trouble

 

The Oddy Austin Will be on display with the Nostalgia AA/Gassers @ Sunday Niagara Aug 4th @ lancaster speedway in Buffalo NY. This is the only Nostalgia AA/Gassers stop in NY this year it is going to be a goooood one .


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last bump c u there

 

The Nostalgia AA/Gassers are pleased to announce their participation at the 2013 Funny Car Nationals Presented by Discount Tire at US 131 Motorsports Park in Martin, Michigan.
The event will take place September 6-7, 2013 and will be an 8 car qualified field for all club members.
The club will be part of an action packed show which also features the DragRacingOnline.com AA/FC Challenge, Great Lakes Nostalgia Alcohol Funny Cars plus Nostalgia Nitro Fuel Altereds and much more.
This is the first time the club will be running at US 131 Motorsports Park and we’re sure the place will ROCK! It may just be THE nostalgia event in the east of the year! Hold on tight

This is going to be a good one look for the Oddy Austin on display with the Nostalgia AA/Gassers SPEED IS KING BOYS

 

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AA/GS RACING read about the most Intense AA/G race this year by far this is not the index AA racing this is balls out true heads up AA/Gas racing

 

A few new & from back in the day enjoy of the Oddy Austin Look for it @ select events for 2013

 

This Weekend is the Massive Olcott beach car show It is in Olcott NY on the shores of Lake Ontario. The Oddy Austin will be on display for this 1000+ huge car show . This year Dennis Gage with the TV show My Classic Car will be will be filming @ Olcott for a future episode of My Classic Car.

 

Not wanting to hijack the post, But I hear that Jim Oddy's 36 Chevy coupe gasser is now on the street in the Olean,area. A friend of mine in Pa. bought the coupe from Jim Oddy back in the early 70's,put it on the street with a 4-71 blown small block and did that street rod thing for a few years.He sold the car to a guy in the pittsburg area who completed the street rod bit(must.ll,velour int. etc. etc.) my buddy called the guy who bought the coupe from him last week, and he told him it was in Olean,painted red and still on the street.

 

Thats Ok I have talked to Jimmy about this car. He sold it to a guy that runs a PA dragstrip called Loweville his name is Lucky and Jim Told me the car BURNED . Now last year I was at a garage here in Buffalo & a buddy of mine said that Lucky has Jimmys old car & he said it Burned I said that is correct. So as far as I know Lucky still has the car . see if you can get a photo & PM me . It would be interesting to see it. Thanks Trouble

 

There was a fire at Lucky's dragstrip a couple of years ago,but He hasn't owned that coupe for a long time.There were a couple of race cars in the building,but the 36 was not one of them.I have some pictures of the car when my friend owned it,as a street rod.Now that you mentioned it,my buddy may have bought the coupe from Lucky Foley,not directly from Jim Oddy.I traveled many miles in the coupe,street rod nats. east at timonium,nats at memphis,cumberland MD. york street rod nats east.etc.etc.

 

I will ask My buddy and see if i can find out anymore thats is the guy Lucky Foley.If you don't mind can you post a few pics of the car here ? Jimmy told me that let Lucky know he will give him back the $1500 for the car LOL Thanks !!

 

It may be the car I dont know much about his 36 .I know Jimmy would get a kick out of knowing what ever came of it Please feel freeto post any pic or info here I would like to know myself just for the sake of knowing.

 

I will try to get some old pictures soon,I don't have them here.I was up at Lucky's drag strip last sunday,the burned out building has been all cleaned up.and it looks like a pole barn has been put up where it was.

 

Ask him what he knows when you see him let him know Jim said hello looking foward to seeing the pics thanks Trouble

 

Here are a couple of pics I hope I can figure out how to enter them. The first one is from wattsburg(loweville)around 1964? the others are while it was being street rodded,early 70's. The blown engine being installed in the construction picture came from an altered roadster that raced at Sunset drag strip. I currently have that blower set up to go on my T- bucket.

 

I spoke to Lucky today you were correct it was not the 36 that burned at Luckys it was a promod he sold the car in thelate 60s early 70s it went to Meadville if that rings a bell it was blue but not the Oddy Blue so this should be the car see if you can find out anymore info thanks Trouble

 

I am very familiar with the Oddy 36 coupe.I used to go to wattsburg every sunday,and Jim would flat tow the coupe to the strip.It had6 carbs on it at one time I believe,and then injection.I am from meadville,and I helped the owner of the coupe remove the roll bar because it was transmitting noise into the interior.I also helped install the dropped stainless steel tube front axle,built by a fellow rodder who worked at GE in Erie.The coupe was the light metallic blue when my buddy got it,we used a belt sander to strip the body,and he painted it the dark blue with black fenders. by the way,the picture with the young lady in the window was also taken at wattsburg(loweville)