Bought my dad's old Buick Funny Car...

**BillD** · #1 10-23-2009, 03:43 PM

John, That is fantastic. Congrat's. Did you just find the car recently?

**flyingn** · #2 10-23-2009, 04:51 PM

fantastic news John!!! Do your Dad proud!!

**CC Rider** · #3 10-23-2009, 05:13 PM

Wow, very cool.

COPO PETE · #4 10-23-2009, 05:36 PM

That is too neat! Congrats!
Peter

**PeteLeathersac** · #5 10-23-2009, 07:04 PM

BIG Congrats on aquiring your Dad's old Funny!.
I remember you or someone else posting pics of it here a year or so ago...when it was still owned by someone else?.

~ Pete

musclecarjohn · #6 10-23-2009, 10:12 PM

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John, That is fantastic. Congrat's. Did you just find the car recently?

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No Bill,it kinda found me,lol.
I've known about it for about 2 years now and have been trying to buy it ever since.Owner finally relented and decided to offer it on eBay and it ran it's course w/o meeting the reserve last Sunday,I struck a deal with the seller after that.

As promised,here are some pictures that were scanned then mailed to me then I have taken pictures of scanned pictures (lol,I know...buy a damn scanner

) but you must admit the quality and steady hands produce pretty good quality.

First up is a still from NY National Speedway in 1968:

Just completed and sitting in front of my dad's shop Brooklyn Speed & Machine probably 1967.
Shop looks to be smack dab in the middle of a residential neighborhood,huh?

Magazine stills shot by noted east coast photog Bob Beattie:

Motor is pretty much stock looking except for the 8:71 blower & injector.Chassis is my dad's version of a Logghe,from chrome moly tubing,rear is a Buick Wildcat piece w/3:90 gears.Weight of the car was 2,005#'s:

Car is considered to be one of the best constructed in terms of safety...imagine strapping in and going 7.79 @ 191

Magazine articles:

Strictly Buick is right,even the tow car was usually some big Buick boat,typically an Estate wagon:

This article was missing a page...car got shortened,lol:

Display in a Chevrolet dealer I believe...

Action shots...first up a pass @ Englishtown (our home track),love the way it's twisting the chassis a bit:

This shot is available on line from NY National Speedway facing Malcom Durham in his Strip Blazer stretched Camaro.
The DC Lip always ran hard-charging all-Chevy powered Chevrolet's:

I remember this day clear as a bell,I was 10 yrs old,we beat Doug Nash first round in his "Bronco Buster" Bronco II,I think he broke,lol.
Dyno Don & Mr. Norm were also there...what a show

:

Later it it's life when "Rapid" Red Lang drove it:

Whatcha guys think...?

**mockingbird812** · #7 10-23-2009, 10:16 PM

Over the TOP!! What a score. Great photographic history. More - More!!!

**CC Rider** · #8 10-23-2009, 10:19 PM

Love the story!

**gb70** · #9 10-23-2009, 11:18 PM

Awesome! What will you do with it once you restore it some, assuming it needs it? Museum piece, carry it to shows, race it?

musclecarjohn · #10 10-23-2009, 11:25 PM

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Awesome! What will you do with it once you restore it some, assuming it needs it? Museum piece, carry it to shows, race it?

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Plan it to fabricate the pieces needed to make it run,then cackelfest it and hopefully find it's way down the 1/4 mile again...

Will miss the CA Reunion next year but hopefully in '11,that would be our goal.

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