Update.. 'Russ Dunmire' 68 Hurst Olds Drag Car

[PeteLeathersac]

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Great progress! . Nice to see you saved the cowl also didn't clip the car. ~ Pete

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The restoration shop that had the car before I bought it was going to do just that, just rebody the cowl. Lucky for us all Kevin put a stop to that.

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Who's the 'cowl-rebody' shop....and is this a specialty of the house? ~ Pete

[Jim Ferron]

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WOW...Thanks for saving it and thanks for showing us the in resto pics. When it was for sale at Barrett Jackson I spent some time with the seller. He was a very nice guy and I'm sure he was crushed to see what happened to the car he put so much work into. It was his baby. Nice to see it being saved.

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The original builder,Derral Farmer,who I believe is who you talked to, went to the big drag strip in the sky I believe long before this car ever took it's E-Ticket ride. I wish I could have talked to him...

The next guy I've never been able to locate...Doug Williams [wife Vicky] from Arizona...anybody know him?

Then came Kevin, then me.

I don't believe there will be anybody else till I meet up with Derral....

[Charley Lillard]

Barrett-Jackson should have the contact info for the guy that sold it there. He is the guy that restored it.

[Jim Ferron]

Charlie, at this point it would take divine intervention to talk to ol' Derral....or at least something else John Edwardesque...

[Charley Lillard]

So the nice guy I talked to at Barret-Jackson selling the car was Derral ? He died ?

[Canuck]

Jim
Derrell passed away about 4 years ago. I knew him while he was restorting the car but did not witness any work being done on it. Another friend of his, Kim Larsen,lives in the Portland area and may have assisted on the car. Your best contact is Greg Rollins of Supercars Unlimited. Greg can be reached at his business 503-244-8249. Greg is a supplier of Olds mechanical and performance parts and has supplied just about every Olds in teh Pacific northwest. Greg can probably point you in the right direction as he will know who did what to the car.

[Jim Ferron]

Thanks for the info! I'll certainly get in touch with him.

[Jim Ferron]

Though some of you might want to see 'Russ' again...

I had some troubles with the original body shop and I decided last year to pull it out and give to one of my old time best buddies of mine who has done some fabulous work for me in the past.

I took the car to him in rough primer and he blocked the car, and has started to line up panels.

This spring , after he gave the car a quick coat of base looking for flaws, the car came back to my shop where we installed the engine, etc.

Today I sent the partial assembled car to my engine guy to fire it up and get the mechanical bugs out before it goes back to the body shop for final paint and assembly...whew...

[Jim Ferron]

More pics...

[al8apex]

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Some of you may remember the story of the rolled over '68 Hurst Oldsmobile factory drag car that Kevin S.purchased a while back... 'Original Thread' ...Well I had watched that car even before Kevin had bought it and then after following another thread right here on this board, I was able to buy the car from Kevin spring of 2005.

The car was not hurt anywhere near as bad as it looked in the pictures [not sure if I really mean that] I'd rather fix a dent than rust I guess... Nothing a new roof, door and a nose couldn't fix!

Anyway finally clearing a spot in the shop, the work started on the car two weeks ago.

60 hours later, ALL the collision work is done. We've done everything in our power to save/straighten as much of the original sheetmetal as possible. At this point it's just 'normal' paint and detail from here.

Thought you might like a peek at the process...
Also, if I ever find the time [and when the server works]
I try to keep some info here... www.68hurstolds.com

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that looks like an Arizona yard ...