Racecars shipped to Sweden back in the day.

COPO_Anders · #1 09-11-2009, 08:36 PM

Hey Sam ! This is the guy responsible for a lot of the anger you are feeling.

Marty Furlipa worked under the name of "East Coast Export" and he exported lots of racecars, engines and other parts to Sweden. He lived in Linden Street, Lodi, New Jersey.
The Mustang is the second Dyno Don-racecar Lars Flodhman bought. Marty had it repainted at Cirkus Paint in N.Y.
In the article (May 1976) it says that he, by the same time, also found a S.R.D-built (Speed, Research & Development)-73 or -74 Vega for some other guys in Sweden. The seller of this Vega was Bob Ingles.

jannes_z-28 · #2 09-12-2009, 09:02 AM

That Mustang was all out state of the art and I would consider it the fastest car EVER to run on a Swedish dragstrip. That is if you compare it to the comparable times in the USA. On its premiere event at Mantorp Park in 1976 it ran 8,9 which was just a 0.1 slower than the NHRA record.

Unfortunately the chute didn't deploy on the run after and they rolled the car after the finishline.

The chassi wasn't hurt, it was only body damage. The flew in new bodyparts and had it back on track for the next race 2 weeks later, The beautiful Circus paintjob was of course gone.

Lars Flodhman took the car back to the states the year after and raced it on the east coast for a few years with some success, mostly matchracing. The car ended in another crash, it wasn't repairable after that.

The chassi was built by Don Hardy Race Cars, engines by Gapp & Roush, 4-speed Lenco.

Jan

COPO_Anders · #3 09-13-2009, 12:03 PM

Here is another one I found in Colorod #9 1980. The car participated in the Mantorp Park summer event. Anyone remember this one ?
On the door it says:

JOHN THEOFILES
"The Greek"
SEAFORD. DEL. (is that Delaware ?)

On the rearquarter:

Chincoteague Island Brand Seafood
R. STUBBS & CO.

It has a S.R.D. Race Cars sticker there to.

And what does WBHP on the front fender mean ?

COPO_Anders · #4 09-13-2009, 12:33 PM

I Googled Seaford Delaware and Chincoteague Island, and this is what turned up:

**John Brown** · #5 09-13-2009, 07:26 PM

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And what does WBHP on the front fender mean ?

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WBHP is most likely the call letters of a radio station that helped sponsor the car.

Here's a little trivia about WBHP from Wikipedia.

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WBHP was the first Huntsville Alabama AM radio station. The station went on the air as WBHS on April 22, 1931 as a service of The Hutchens Company. The station became WBHP in 1937. <font color="red">Oddly, the Federal Communications Commission also briefly assigned the WBHP callsign to a low-power South Carolina station in 2000-2001.</font>

WBHP had been through several owners until its acquisition by Clear Channel Communications, its current licensee. The current call letters stem from longtime previous owner Wilton "Buster" Harvey Pollard. Until the November 1997 switch to all-news, WBHP broadcast a country music format.

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So, it looks like there may have been a WBHP radio station in South Carolina for a while also, just to muddy up the water a little more.

COPO_Anders · #6 10-19-2009, 12:00 AM

John, thank´s for answering my question.

In the latest issue of Wheels Magazine there is a pic of one of Bill Jenkins old cars, currently here in Sweden.

jannes_z-28 · #7 10-19-2009, 01:38 AM

If that is true he has a fortune, the preceeding car, Grumpys Toy X sold for $577.000 a while ago.
http://www.barrett-jackson.com/applicati...d=221&pop=1

Grumpys Toy XIV came over here too, a friend of mine bought it in 1980 or 81, they got a Jenkins built 383 with it and ran mid 8's with it.

I built headers for it when they put in a Pat Musi built 500Cuin engine in it.

I have to find some pictures of it.

Jan

jannes_z-28 · #8 11-20-2009, 10:37 AM

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John, thank´s for answering my question.

In the latest issue of Wheels Magazine there is a pic of one of Bill Jenkins old cars, currently here in Sweden.

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I saw that article and I really doubt that it would be Jenkins Vega now when I know what Swedish Vega they refer to. It was run by a guy who we raced back then, he had sponsorship by Hawaiian Tropic, lucky guy always a bunch of bikinichicks around the car in the pits.
Anyway he had a Vega that he built himself, crashed it and rebuilt it in two weeks for the next race and after that it looked like the red and black one.

So no it is not an old Jenkins Vega, over the period of thirty years folklore can kick in and make a cars history better than it is...

Jan

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