Racecars shipped to Sweden back in the day.

[COPO_Anders]

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]

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

[John Brown]

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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]

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]

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&amp;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

[Salvatore]

Your telling us you guys have John The Greeks Modified production camaro in Sveden too? A top notch DIV-1 racer for years. You guys are killin me!

[jannes_z-28]

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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

[deluxe]

All of Bill's car's are accounted for, excluding the 1981 Camaro. Any solid leads on the where abouts of this one?

[jannes_z-28]

Here is one picture of the Jenkins Toy XIV Monza that came to Sweden in 1981, this picture is from Mantorp Park in August 1981. They got it with a 383 Match Race motor and a 5-speed Doug Nash gearbox (that I sold to them), the car smashed the class records that year over here and won almost everything. Next year they stepped up to the new ProStock class in Sweden and got some serious competition from other teams.




Jan

[Mike]

"All of Bill's car's are accounted for, excluding the 1981 Camaro"

Deluxe you've mentioned this a couple of times. I didn't think his 68 Nova had been accounted for? What info do you have on the car? I didn't think his 68 or 69 cars were found either?

Mike