Joe Szabo

[Belair62]

R & B also built Larry Swiateks Gray Ghost 66 GTO Funnycar !!! Scully painted it ,Fiberglas LTD made the body...Heavy duty Chicago connection there Stefano ! ...

[kwhizz]

R&B is still in business......Dennis is not doing very well from a health perspective.......Lil John was the creative one at R&B and when he left, Dennis continued on and did a couple of neat cars but he didn't have the finesse that John had......
One of the "Neatest" cars that Dennis built was Mini Cooper Panel Delivery.......Dennis started with just a brand new Body shell......built a tube frame,narrowed 9" Ford rear, Built Ford V6 engine, it had about 12" aluminum Rims about 9" wide....looked like a Roller Skate....the car was about as high as your belt buckle.....NEEEEEETTT!!!!!

Ken

[Mike]

Does anybody know if Joe Szabo ever ran a '69 Camaro in the early to mid '70's. Do you know if Joe ever move to Pennsylvania around the same time period?

Thanks,
Mike

[kwhizz]

[ QUOTE ]
Does anybody know if Joe Szabo ever ran a '69 Camaro in the early to mid '70's. Do you know if Joe ever move to Pennsylvania around the same time period? Thanks,Mike

[/ QUOTE ] No.....After the tax man got thru with Joe, he was Lucky to have Gas money for his car.............(thru his own fault) Ken (eating Mango's) LOL

[Mike]

Thanks Ken.....enjoy the mango's. I'm eating oranges

Mike

[Stefano]

There was another Joe Szabo out East who either raced or sponsored a front engine rail back in the day, but not the same person.

[Stefano]

I have discovered a bit more info about the car at the Vette/Fest.

While at the Vette Fest on display, One of the Midwest Gasser members saw the car and said that he hadn't seen it since the '60s, when he raced against it.

He asked if I was aware that the car was originally a White car? I told him that the original color appears to have been Gold, but that the whole car did have a white paint job over the Gold.

He also informed me that it was not a Mechanic at Nickey who had built and raced the car before Szabo, but a parts counter man, named Ron

Bruce Larson's PR guy, who stopped by to look it over said that he too recognized the car and thought he might have some pics of it from back in the day.

He said that he remembered it because it was one of the first Midwest area Gassers to have such a deep engine set back.

[tmilecki]

Does anyone know if Scully is still around. I believe he letered a car that I owned called Taboo. It was a 70 Z28 super gas car.

[L78Impala]

Scully spends his winters in Palm Springs and summers in Palatine. He is still alive and kicking.

[sYc]