bill thomas chevy II front bumper delete panel....

[Milnersdaughter]

Bud I was thinking about you today when Rich Carlson emailed me. Would you be able to post pictures of your 'mystery' car? Do you think it was raced at one time? I'm asking because Rich Carlson has probably taken some type of picture of every race car out there- he might have an easier time at recognizing it? He'll hopefully be here Saturday but if not, I can email him what you know and the pictures.

We found Jerry Ruth without having to break into my dad's phone and Carlson has a way of getting ahold of Larry Webb. It will be so great if everything works out!

BA, once I'm able to tell my dad about this place he'll no doubt chat with you guys. He loves his computer! LOL! You must ask him why he never put ME into a car... It was my dream. It is great that he remains friends with so many. When my brother raced, all those people became our extended family. As I posted in my bio my brother, Brian, raced dragsters and at one time Bardahl was one of the sponsors, as they were with the AG car.

When dad goes out to the Northwest Nationals now he hangs out with Jerry Darien who runs an alcohol dragster. They became close when Gary Scelzi was driving for him. Since then Bernstein's son and most recently Ashley Force has driven the car. They joke that you go through Darien to work your way into Top Fuel.

I have all these pictures sitting here ready to post and just asked my husband what I needed to do to get him to get the scanner set up for me...well, that was a loaded question

Thank you for the Birthday wishes for my dad, he'll love reading them.

[budnate]

not much to see but a bare primered shell and a painted Bill Thomas frame at the moment, it was found in Bremerton in about 1980, guy pulled the chrome frame and tilt frontend and hung the stuff in his rafters in a barn and stuck on a standard painted Bill Thomas frame and shoved it out behind his house,he sold it to the person I bought it from she had it from '81 till now and is a strange person with little to no info or help on the car.

I am still trying to get a guy to go for a ride and try and find this guys place on the outside chance the stuff is still around or will at least tell me where he bought he car from or something?.

I think the key to rattle some memories is the chrome Bill Thomas frame on the car, cant have been many of those around back then, the person I bought it from had it stripped and put in primer years ago so no chance of any lettering.

car was pretty nice at one point the underside of the car is painted in gloss black Imron and with the other stuff was a neat car, I assume it raced back in the day locally but just have not ran into any guys from back in the day to talk with about it.

appreciate and help, thnx Bud.

[markjohnson]

Sounds like a neat car, Bud. About three years ago, I believe close to you, I missed out on an early Nova sedan car with a Bill Thomas front stub. Had a cool name on the side, "LEZDUIT". I like that.

[oil4kids]

Bill Thomas Nova

http://www.cheetahcars.com/images/badbascom.jpg

[Xplantdad]

That "Bad Bascom" was a cool Nova