Re: yenko race cars
orig69ss,
I read your post.As soon as I did I called Tom Kling. Who is Tom Kling? Tom Kling and Ralph Truppi owned the Ray Allen car that you mentioned,they ran it out of their shop, TK Performance in the Plainfield area (NJ). The car was a 1970 Chevelle SS 454 LS6 convertible car that ran in SS/EA which you mentioned was a mostly "Hemi" class. I have some old "Raceway News" (Old Bridge Twsp Raceway Park) that has the car on the cover, I will post very soon. Tom Kling is currently the Crew Chief for Tom Martino's NHRA Pro Stock Pontiac Firebird and one of the head engineers at Jesel Performance (Rocker Arms). Ralph Truppi currently owns TK Performance (a machine shop). Briggs Chevrolet is no longer, it was in South Amboy, New Jersey. I spoke to the gentleman who owned Briggs and he is going to get me some photos of the old store, (the building is still there).Briggs was the official track sponsor (for a time)of Raceway Park (Englishtown NJ),a sponsor the late"Jungle Jim" Liberman's Funny Cars, a sposor of the "Truppi-Kling" Chevelle, and a sponsor of John Greenwood's Lemans Corvettes. I hope that you find this info helpful.
Andrew
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