Tony,
Don Fezzell owns the '63 Z-11 Impala, Larry Brinkley owns the '62 Bel Air, and Jerry MacNeish owns the '68 Z-28 Camaro that were all raced under "The Old Reliable" Banner. Ammon R. Smith Auto Car Company was a Chevrolet Dealer located on Carlisle Ave. York Pa.(The dealer is now a wall paper warehouse). Dave Strickler was a mechanic who married Susan Smith,daughter of Vernon Smith the dealer principal of Ammon R. Smith Auto Car Company. Dave Strickler started racing seriously in the late 1950s in the York area and met up with a tech inspector at Lancaster Dragway who helped him in making his car run faster thru a carb adjustment, that tech inspector was William Jenkins aka later known as "The Grump". Stricker and Jenkins began to race cars with the support of Ammon R. Smith in 1961 with a 1961 Biscayne 348 Tri-Power (Maroon in color) and then went on to race at least two 1962 Chevrolet Bel Airs, a match race car and a "legal" car. In 1963 Strickler got a Z-11 Impala, in 1964 he went to Dodge. Strickler got one of the factory 1965 Altered Wheelbase Dodge Coronets, one of 2 or 3 four speed cars. Dave went back to Chevy in '66 with a Corvette Funny Car. In 1968 Strickler won the Super Stock Class Championship Title with his S/S E Camaro Z-28. Check out that story on
www.z28camaro.com .
Andrew