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Xplantdad 12-18-2007 05:25 AM

Re: OLD RACERS
 
Yeah Sam...It reminds me of someone else I know! https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/grin.gif


You.... https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/beers.gif

bracketracer-78 12-18-2007 06:18 AM

Re: OLD RACERS
 
The Nova did have a 350 in it. I have not seen the car for about 10 years. I will have to ask if it is still around.

x Baldwin Motion 12-19-2007 04:40 AM

Re: OLD RACERS
 
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[b] Come on Chris - time for a repaint on that cart.
Did we really think this stuff looked good?
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http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t...Chevy/a038.jpg

http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t...evy/a019-1.jpg
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http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q...rtpaintjob.jpg
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http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t...evy/a036-1.jpg
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Hey, it all looks good to me https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...emlins/eek.gif where's my bong?

Glenn, I was probably at that Maple Grove Show, I went to the first through 86.

Just kidding about the bong https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...ns/scholar.gif weed free for 25 yrs
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Motion Camaro 12-19-2007 03:23 PM

Re: OLD RACERS
 
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[b] Come on Chris - time for a repaint on that cart.
Did we really think this stuff looked good?

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<font color="blue">I still think it has a good look.
We spent 10x the money today to make them look 'simple' &amp; 'uncluttered'.
I still like names on cars, it makes it 'yours'. </font>

427TJ 12-19-2007 08:55 PM

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http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t...evy/a018-1.jpg

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Scott Sullivan's car from 1979, right? I think Hot Rod recently credited this car as being the "first" Pro Street car? (Can of worms, I know.) Maybe they called it the first PS car that was actually driveable and reliable. This car knocked people's eyes out when it first came on the scene, much the same way Rick Dobbertin's '65 did soon after.

Xplantdad 12-19-2007 10:04 PM

Re: OLD RACERS
 
Yep that's Sullivan's Nova...

They may have called his the first pro street car Bill...but I have pics from 1979 at the Street Machine Nationals West that show a 1970? Nova that has the narrowed rear, gas tank in the trunk and big engine up front...at least on the west coast this guy was considered to be the first person to go the pro street route...

Dog427435 12-20-2007 12:48 AM

Re: OLD RACERS
 
I grew up with a guy named Fred Bieler (sp?) Everyone called him Crazy Freddy for obvious reasons. He built a bunch of hot cars and did custom bodywork.
Freddy drove like a wild man, and Freddy was an innovator - In the late sixties Freddy took
a '62 Dodge with an 413" automatic and mated it with a wrecked Freeport modified. He installed the narrowed Halibrand quick-change with a set of 6 something gears. He took 2 stock rims and cut and welded them together and stretched a 10 or 12 inch racing tire on them. As I remember the tire looked more like a tractor tire then anything else. It was up high in the back with these monster tires tucked underneath!
Blasts down Hempstead Tpke were amazing with the uncorrected speedometer reaching over
100 mph in first with those wild gears.

Freddy also cut the inside out of the top of the back seat from side to side. He installed amps and a speaker from a movie theater in the trunk facing through the rear seat fabric. He cut the center
out of the dashboard and installed a tv speaker up front. Pulling into Wetsons with the 8-track
cranked up always brought everyone outside!

Freddy was from Brooklyn, but grew up with his Uncle in Elmont. The last I saw of him was in
late '70 at the Twilight bar in Elmont. He arrived in a wheelchair with some sort of
2 cycle motorcycle motor propelling it. He took off down Meacham Ave and I went in the Army
shortly afterward. I never saw him again! I would love to know what else Crazy Freddy dreamed
up from there!

x Baldwin Motion 12-20-2007 05:47 AM

Re: OLD RACERS
 
".............a wheelchair with some sort of 2 cycle motorcycle motor propelling it..."

tell us again why they called him Crazy Freddy!! https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/haha.gif

mockingbird812 12-20-2007 07:10 AM

Re: OLD RACERS
 
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Yeah Sam...It reminds me of someone else I know! https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/grin.gif


You.... https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/beers.gif

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Sure Bruce. Me and 99% of the rest of us on this site!! https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/beers.gif

mockingbird812 12-20-2007 07:21 AM

Re: OLD RACERS
 
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I grew up with a guy named Fred Bieler (sp?) Everyone called him Crazy Freddy for obvious reasons. He built a bunch of hot cars and did custom bodywork.
Freddy drove like a wild man, and Freddy was an innovator - In the late sixties Freddy took
a '62 Dodge with an <font color="red"> 413 </font> " automatic and mated it with a wrecked Freeport modified. He installed the narrowed Halibrand quick-change with a set of 6 something gears. He took 2 stock rims and cut and welded them together and stretched a 10 or 12 inch racing tire on them. As I remember the tire looked more like a tractor tire then anything else. It was up high in the back with these monster tires tucked underneath!
Blasts down Hempstead Tpke were amazing with the uncorrected speedometer reaching over
100 mph in first with those wild gears.

Freddy also cut the inside out of the top of the back seat from side to side. He installed amps and a speaker from a movie theater in the trunk facing through the rear seat fabric. He cut the center
out of the dashboard and installed a tv speaker up front. Pulling into Wetsons with the 8-track
cranked up always brought everyone outside!

Freddy was from Brooklyn, but grew up with his Uncle in Elmont. The last I saw of him was in
late '70 at the Twilight bar in Elmont. He arrived in a wheelchair with some sort of
2 cycle motorcycle motor propelling it. He took off down Meacham Ave and I went in the Army
shortly afterward. I never saw him again! I would love to know what else Crazy Freddy dreamed
up from there!

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