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While at the York show, I spent a lot of time visiting with Bruce Larsen, who was there with his '68 USA-1 funny car. Sutliff was Bruces's sponser for many years and I believe he was employed by them. One of the stories he told me was about the 2 ZL-1s Sutliff received. As did most dealers, they were unable to sale the cars, becasue of price, thus, after a while, they removed the engines and replaced them with L-88s. One car with the L-88 did very well on the drag strip. The engines that were removed were given to Bruce to use in his USA-1 funny car. But, for fear of the aluminum engine not holding up, Bruce never used the engines. Finally, one of the engines was sold to a stock car driver and the other? What made this story even more interesting was that one of the 2 Sutliff ZL-1s was at York, parked next to the DH funny car. It belongs to Mark Hassett.

Another story he told me was about dyno testing his A.C. Cobra drag car at Sutliff. Once they discovered what he was doing, they asked that he not dyno the Ford there anyone, thus, he made the deal with the dealership and switched to Chevys. His first Chevy, and the first to carry the USA-1 theme was a '66 Chevelle, which now resides in Big Daddy's museum.