"The Greek"
 

Here is another one I found in Colorod #9 1980. The car participated in the Mantorp Park summer event. Anyone remember this one ?
On the door it says:

JOHN THEOFILES
"The Greek"
SEAFORD. DEL. (is that Delaware ?)

On the rearquarter:

Chincoteague Island Brand Seafood
R. STUBBS & CO.

It has a S.R.D. Race Cars sticker there to.

And what does WBHP on the front fender mean ?

http://i436.photobucket.com/albums/q...ekCol91980.jpg

Re: "The Greek"
 

I Googled Seaford Delaware and Chincoteague Island, and this is what turned up:
http://i436.photobucket.com/albums/q...ol91980003.jpg

Re: "The Greek"
 

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And what does WBHP on the front fender mean ?

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WBHP is most likely the call letters of a radio station that helped sponsor the car.

Here's a little trivia about WBHP from Wikipedia.

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WBHP was the first Huntsville Alabama AM radio station. The station went on the air as WBHS on April 22, 1931 as a service of The Hutchens Company. The station became WBHP in 1937. <font color="red">Oddly, the Federal Communications Commission also briefly assigned the WBHP callsign to a low-power South Carolina station in 2000-2001.</font>

WBHP had been through several owners until its acquisition by Clear Channel Communications, its current licensee. The current call letters stem from longtime previous owner Wilton "Buster" Harvey Pollard. Until the November 1997 switch to all-news, WBHP broadcast a country music format.

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So, it looks like there may have been a WBHP radio station in South Carolina for a while also, just to muddy up the water a little more.

Grumpy´s Toy XI
 

John, thank´s for answering my question. https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...iggthumpup.gif

In the latest issue of Wheels Magazine there is a pic of one of Bill Jenkins old cars, currently here in Sweden.


http://i436.photobucket.com/albums/q...umpysToyXI.jpg

Re: Grumpy´s Toy XI
 

If that is true he has a fortune, the preceeding car, Grumpys Toy X sold for $577.000 a while ago.
http://www.barrett-jackson.com/applicati...d=221&amp;pop=1

Grumpys Toy XIV came over here too, a friend of mine bought it in 1980 or 81, they got a Jenkins built 383 with it and ran mid 8's with it.

I built headers for it when they put in a Pat Musi built 500Cuin engine in it.

I have to find some pictures of it.

Jan

Re: Grumpy´s Toy XI
 

Your telling us you guys have John The Greeks Modified production camaro in Sveden too? A top notch DIV-1 racer for years. You guys are killin me! https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/frown.gif https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...s/headbang.gif https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...ins/3gears.gif

Re: Grumpy´s Toy XI
 

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John, thank´s for answering my question. https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...iggthumpup.gif

In the latest issue of Wheels Magazine there is a pic of one of Bill Jenkins old cars, currently here in Sweden.


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I saw that article and I really doubt that it would be Jenkins Vega now when I know what Swedish Vega they refer to. It was run by a guy who we raced back then, he had sponsorship by Hawaiian Tropic, lucky guy always a bunch of bikinichicks around the car in the pits.
Anyway he had a Vega that he built himself, crashed it and rebuilt it in two weeks for the next race and after that it looked like the red and black one.

So no it is not an old Jenkins Vega, over the period of thirty years folklore can kick in and make a cars history better than it is...


Jan

Re: Grumpy´s Toy XI
 

All of Bill's car's are accounted for, excluding the 1981 Camaro. Any solid leads on the where abouts of this one?

Re: Grumpy´s Toy XIV
 

Here is one picture of the Jenkins Toy XIV Monza that came to Sweden in 1981, this picture is from Mantorp Park in August 1981. They got it with a 383 Match Race motor and a 5-speed Doug Nash gearbox (that I sold to them), the car smashed the class records that year over here and won almost everything. Next year they stepped up to the new ProStock class in Sweden and got some serious competition from other teams.

http://www.protouring.se/files/skip_monza.jpg


Jan

Re: Grumpy´s Toy XIV
 

"All of Bill's car's are accounted for, excluding the 1981 Camaro"

Deluxe you've mentioned this a couple of times. I didn't think his 68 Nova had been accounted for? What info do you have on the car? I didn't think his 68 or 69 cars were found either?

Mike

Re: Grumpy´s Toy XIV
 

68 car went to Brooklyn Heavy the nova went to a local racer not sure after that and the 69 car I believe is MIA. Jerry Mac may have better info.

Re: Grumpy´s Toy XIV
 

Forgive me if I was misleading in my previous post, It should have been worded "what became of the cars after Bill is known".
The Nova is in the northeast, it has gone through at least 4 owners since Jenkins sold it at the end of the '68 season. Its believed to still be racing.
The 68 Camaro was last reported to be running around the southeast and has had the Pro Street treatment. The 69 Camaro is reported to be in Ohio. Ive talked to a gentleman recently who insists his uncle has the car in his garage collecting dust. Im waiting for confirmation on this and I know, I may be waiting a long time but its worth checking out.
Over the past year +, I have had the oppurtunity to visit Bill and talk with him exstensively in preparing a forthcoming book based upon his career.

Re: Grumpy´s Toy XIV
 

Great B. Jenkins interview in the Ultimate Bow Tie video. Talks about all this stuff and his old race cars. First Class Video Productions produced it back in the late 1990's.

Bob

Re: Grumpy´s Toy XIV
 

Go for it Deluxe. Anything Grumpy I love! He did a pair of 270 horse carbs for me years ago for my corvette and I bought an NOS Z/28 cam from him not long ago. My hero! https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...iggthumpup.gif https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...ns/worship.gif https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...ins/3gears.gif Get the book out!

Rod Shop Challenger
 

Ok, this Rod Shop 1973 Challenger wasn´t sent here back in the day, but only a few years ago. Robban, the owner in Sweden, sent me these pics a couple of weeks ago. They were sent to him by Larry Morgan, Bruce Meihls and Dick Hoppe, previous owners in the U.S.
They told Robban that the front end was switched to be able to run different types of engines. It has been run with a Hemi at some point.
Maybe you remember my thread in the for sale department some time ago, when Robban had the car for sale. That was before he knew the whole history of the car.

http://i436.photobucket.com/albums/q...Challenger.jpg

http://i436.photobucket.com/albums/q...26-morgan2.jpg

http://i436.photobucket.com/albums/q...allenger73.jpg

http://i436.photobucket.com/albums/q...challenger.jpg

http://i436.photobucket.com/albums/q...hopImage_2.jpg

http://i436.photobucket.com/albums/q...ShopImage1.jpg

http://i436.photobucket.com/albums/q...enger73gul.jpg

http://i436.photobucket.com/albums/q...RodShop140.jpg

This is the way it looks today.

http://i436.photobucket.com/albums/q...arrymorgan.jpg

Re: Rod Shop Challenger
 

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Maybe you remember my thread in the for sale department some time ago, when Robban had the car for sale. That was before he knew the whole history of the car.


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Previous thread

Jungle Jim and Pisano & Matsubara
 

Janne, who owns the Jungle Jim Vega FC, sent me a Merry Christmas e-mail with some pics. He has restored the chassis, the original body, and also the Opel Manta-body that was put on the chassis in 1976.
Ray Hill, an American living in Sweden, is a wizzard when it comes to paintjobs.
Enjoy !

http://i436.photobucket.com/albums/q...ers/2010-9.jpg

http://i436.photobucket.com/albums/q...O_Anders/b.jpg



Janne has also nearly completed the restoration of the Pisano &amp; Matsubara Revell Monza that LEE-Anders Hasselström bought back in 1977.
The article states that &quot;Little&quot; John Buttera built the Monza as an identical copy of the Monza he built for &quot;The Snake&quot;.

http://i436.photobucket.com/albums/q...ders/2010A.jpg

http://i436.photobucket.com/albums/q...ers/2010-1.jpg

http://i436.photobucket.com/albums/q...ers/2010-5.jpg

Re: Jungle Jim and Pisano & Matsubara
 

COOL! I have a black and white picture I took of the Pisano funny at OCIR in the early 80's...I thought that funny car kicked butt! [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/headbang.gif[/img]

Sherbits jet dragster
 

I could be wrong but I think Bruno Donati bought this Sherbits jet dragster and pickup truck in California. I have an article about it in a Swedish magazine somewhere in the attic. Pic was taken in the late seventies at Mantorp Park.

http://i436.photobucket.com/albums/q...etdragster.jpg

Sammy Millers Vanishing Point
 

Sammy Millers Vanishing Point didn´t stay here for long, but he kept coming back with it. I think he had a Swedish wife. Pic was probably taken in the late seventies.

http://i436.photobucket.com/albums/q...orpPark002.jpg

http://i436.photobucket.com/albums/q...antorpPark.jpg

http://i436.photobucket.com/albums/q...orpPark001.jpg

"The Greek" Camaro
 

A couple of days ago my friend Ingemar in Karlstad contacted me after having found this thread. He told me that &quot;The Greek&quot; was bought in 1979-80 by two guys from Karlstad, Eddie and Perry Hollander. He believes the best time they made with it was 9.44. It was later sold to Torgny Trell, also living in Karlstad. Ingemar thinks the car is still around somewhere but doesn´t know who owns it. Ingemar is the guy who gave me vital information about the COPO-Chevelle &quot;THE CONVINCER&quot;.

http://i436.photobucket.com/albums/q...ekCol91980.jpg

And he also told me that WBHP isn´t a radiostation, it´s a speed shop. He has this decal on his garagedoor. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/biggthumpup.gif[/img]

http://i436.photobucket.com/albums/q...s/P1000221.jpg

Re: "The Greek" Camaro
 

So you are telling us Anders that you guys stole this car too. Boy-O-Boy how about giving some of those cars back? Saw it run many times. John Theoflies (spelling) A real fast Modified Production car in the 70's-80's from the Delaware area.

Re: "The Greek" Camaro
 

Sam, you have to look at it this way: every car that is/was sent here can be sent back. Just think of my old COPO that is now back in the USA.

[img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/flag.gif[/img]

Re: "The Greek" Camaro
 

Yea maybe your COPO, but you guys don't want to give up the old race cars. Plenty of COPO's out there BUT the racecars are 1 of 1 manytimes. I would like to see a gathering of all the old race cars that went to Sveeden. I bet you guys could have a REAL nostalgia race, with the REAL cars! YEAA

Re: "The Greek" Camaro
 

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: [email protected]</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
I would like to see a gathering of all the old race cars that went to Sveeden. I bet you guys could have a REAL nostalgia race, with the REAL cars! YEAA </div></div>

Very C[img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/headbang.gif[/img][img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/headbang.gif[/img]L!!!

[img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/beers.gif[/img]
~ Pete

Funnycars in Sweden
 

I don´t want to upset Sammy (I hope he doesn´t see this at all!) but here is a good site for Funnycars seen at the Swedish tracks during the seventies. They were not that many.

http://www.tugboatlars.se/Dragrace.htm

Re: Funnycars in Sweden
 

Hey Sammy ! Here is another nice car that was shipped over here. This Vega came here in 1977 and if you exclude some decals that were put on the car in Sweden, this is what it looked like when it was shipped from the USA. It had a CSB and a fourspeed. Pic is from the small Vårgårda airport that was sometimes used as a dragstrip. Does anyone remember this Vega ?

http://i436.photobucket.com/albums/q...ps2c79573f.jpg

Racecars shipped to Sweden
 

This photo shows Bob Taylor and his Vega at a warm up at OCIR before the 1980 Winternationals. The Vega was later sold to Trenneman in Sweden. Eiward &amp; Forsberg also owned it at one point, and it is also known as the M &amp; M car over here. This photo was shared on Facebook in a swedish street and dragracing group.

http://i436.photobucket.com/albums/q...ps94e7a45f.jpg

Re: Funnycars in Sweden
 

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: COPO_Anders</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
Hey Sammy ! Here is another nice car that was shipped over here. This Vega came here in 1977 and if you exclude some decals that were put on the car in Sweden, this is what it looked like when it was shipped from the USA. It had a CSB and a fourspeed. Pic is from the small Vårgårda airport that was sometimes used as a dragstrip. Does anyone remember this Vega ?

http://i436.photobucket.com/albums/q...ps2c79573f.jpg </div></div>

Gold and Wite Vega? Bill Blandings MIMI?

http://image.superchevy.com/f/371711...ts_part_3_.jpg

Re: Funnycars in Sweden
 

They are not the same cars.

The Swedish one look a lot simpler, more like a Street conversion. Remember Motion sold Vega kits, and so did Don Hardy in Texas. I would assume it is something like that.

The MIMI car is a pure Pro Stocker.

And look at the paint scheme, not the same.

Jan

Re: Funnycars in Sweden
 

Call me crazy but, I think V8 Vegas are bad ass; I would love to have one in my garage.

Brooklyn Heavy Duster
 

Jimmie Gunnarsson who once owned the Brooklyn Heavy Duster still has this part of the windshield. This is culture !

https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/pics...okly_heavy.jpg

Re: Brooklyn Heavy Duster
 

another historic drag car the Swedes stole from America!

Re: Brooklyn Heavy Duster
 

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: [email protected]</div><div class="ubbcode-body">another historic drag car the Swedes stole from America! </div></div>

You have already said that about that car [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/Charley.gif[/img]


Jan

Re: Brooklyn Heavy Duster
 

and I will probably say it again!

Re: Brooklyn Heavy Duster
 

They sure have funny looking car trailers in Sweden