Jim Kirby's 1968 Harrell Funny Car for Sale!

[whitetop]

In the Ford venues recently there is new speculation someone else originally had the idea for the Cobra or it was already done by a "noname" but Shelby had the name, backing and resources to actually do the project. I believe this is the approach Factory Five Racing was trying to use to win their court case. As it may be however, history, as they say, is always written by the winners not the losers.

[Belair62]

How many Harrell race cars are currently accounted for ?

[sYc]

Harrell owned/raced, Harrell raced, or Harrell sponsered?

[Belair62]

All of the above...they could all have had the name on it at one time.

[sYc]

Harrell owned/raced-3 ('67 altered,'68 & '69 funnycars), Harrell raced-2 ('69 & '70 ZL-1s), sponsered-1 (Kirby FC). Of course Valerie may know of others.

[MotownMadman]

Dave Libby has a post on the Harrell website about this car. It was originally painted a Plum color and wore the Courtesy chevrolet logo. Jim Kirby was the official owner but it was not only raced by Jim, but also by Dick Harrell and Charlie Therewanger. When Jim and Dick parted ways the car was returned to Jim and the next Chevrolet dealer to sponser the car was Bomeler from St Louis. While Dick was a sponser for the car during all that time he also raced it.
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[Belair62]

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When someone "restores" one of these cars, how do they determine what point in history they restore it to?

[/ QUOTE ] Wherever they want to I would assume. And that would usually be the most famous point.i.e. record holder etc.Take an old Willys gasser...a couple different owners in its racing past but it was a record holder....of course if you put it back you would go with the proper lettering etc. for it's glory day in the spotlight.JMO but it sure seems like something simple to work out with the family to get that name back on a car.Especially if Mr. Harrell himself raced the darn thing.Would it become instantly much more valuable with the name on it ? Not to me.I would guess the market is extremely small on a car like this.Is someone going to earn huge dollars off of a few exibition passes of a historic dinosaur...I doubt it.Its going to take a bunch of dollars to get it safe.Its real value is in people seeing it and seeing how cool it was back then in the infancy of these mega buck sponsored funny cars that don't even look like cars anymore..And also how crazy these guys were to even get in one of those things !