I Loved the 389 in this one! My 55 gasser had a 389 and a straight axle until I pro-streeted it... uhg....! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=1465906&d=1319428864
I just puked a little... uhhh... and a little more... I think I'm done.... Oooops.... no... Good save!
It was a historical piece that I un-did in the 70's just as Pro-street was emerging and I had the largest Mickey Thompson's I could find and managed to stuff them under the car...
Spent today playing with my latest 57. Just rough and dirty this time. 327 4-sp. Sedan. Touching and beer cans on the fenders ALLOWED! No worries on this one.
That above used to be sky high, built by Roger Lucas. Scott (Chezwiz) Sullivan made it into this And........no bags, bitches.
This one has a cool vibe... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aewj_2c5OnQ&feature=related I may have to run N50 15's on mine... Sam
I seen this car at the Pomona Swap Meet(late 95). Scott drove by and gave me thumbs up, as he was leaving. I was in my 57 Sedan Delivery, thinking to myself.. he has no idea how much he had influenced me. I remember studying it in Hot Rod Mag. The stance and wheels had me from the start!
turquoise and pink- that was the big color combo of the '80s. For some reason people thought thats how everything was painted in the '50s...
That PNR 779 car is in one of my dad's old Chevrolet Yearbooks... different pic, I think. I just remember the mismatched wheel and tire combo. Keep the pics coming! They're awesome! Sam
There's some old '60's drag car pics in a back issue of R&K (issue #18) with a front bumper missing, rear wheel radiused, white '57 sportin' a tube grill...named "Scalp-Hunter"....totally bitchin'.
I remember this car very well, a friend of mine still owns it and has done since the movie was made which was about 1981 or there abouts. They also did some filming of the movie about 2 miles from my house at a place we called brickies it was named that as you passed the State Brickworks to get there which had a huge brickpit there. They also filmed some of the Mad Max beyond Thunderdome movie in the brick pit. Brickies was used for streetracing right back as far as the the sixties maybe earlier. I think this was what got me into cars , having all the cars pass my house on there way to do some racing. By the way the movie was called Running On Empty in Australia.
Now that's cool to know. The South African release was called "Dead on Time", and as far as I know it was only ever released on video here. My cousin and I must have watched that film twenty times during the mid-'80s.
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