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Originally Posted by daveg
I built the motor for the orange Hemi bird.
Norb was with when Bruce picked it up.
It rode home in the back of Bruces old Caddy hearse.
Norb told Bruce he had a tractor loader with a trip bucket he could install it with.
Pretty hilarious scene after that.
Bird was Bruces for all I knew.
Bruce was a genuine character.
Fred was more of a businessman.
Fred got my 70 Hemi Cuda also.
Cale get his cowboy hat yet?
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Interesting stories! I grew up around all those guys. Norb farmed the land on 3 sides of our farm. It was not a big deal to drive through town and see something like a real Sox & Martin Pro-Stock car sitting on Fred's trailer. It's fun to talk about some of these things with other guys my age... nobody believes half the stuff I've seen.
I went to school with Fred's kids, and I'm still friends with them today. When I first got my drivers' license, I'd park my Dad's 68 Camaro in front of the High School next to a '71 Barracuda convertible before Fred sold it to the studio for the Nash Bridges TV show.
My first ever ride doing a burnout was in Norb's 71 'cuda 340 red w/black billboard car. I'd guess I was about 8. Been hooked on the smell of tire-smoke ever since.
I don't remember much about Bruce. I was pretty young last I saw him. I mostly remember seeing him driving some really beat up junk for daily-drivers and looking more like a homeless guy than a collector of rare Mopars.
No cowboy hat yet...
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Originally Posted by Pro Stock John
I do some consulting for Holley LS Fest.
We typically have 550 drag entries (its capped) and 1200 in the car show. The grandstands at Beech Bend are completely full on Saturday I think total foot traffic over the weekend is ~25,000 people.
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The "Grand Champion" competition sells out instantly. I've been avoiding it for a while since I don't have the HP to score well on the drag racing portion of that, but with a new 427ci LS engine being built, I might try to come back again.