Dick Harrell drag car (new thread)

[davenkc]

Tom. Consider it done BTW notice on the 69 it has door handles on both sides. Do real race cars have doors?? Maybe so maybe not. This one has door handles but no doors.
Dicks 69 car.. what can be said about this car that hasn't been said before. From my stand point it I am just proud to say I had the chance to work on it,sit in it while it was running... There is no way to describe what that feels like.
You had to be there to understand. I will be the first to admit it was no fun to pull the tranny after a run and either put the other in(we had a spare always) or pull it apart and see if anything else but the high clutches were trashed. The tranny was the best piece that there was for the era and we had been known to lose it on a burn out.
Wow it sure was fun. In Jan of 71 (yes 71) This car advertised in the AHRA paper for sale. I have a copy of the ad. I still kick myself for not buying it. Ahhh live and learn. The attached pic some will think it has been repainted but it is just the different lighting. I talked at length a few months ago with John (oop) Fensom about this car and he assured me there was no complete repaint on this car until just before Fred's prostock was painted to match it.
Dave

[sYc]

More mellow, yes, but playing with Charley's snails? Sick [img]/ubbthreads/images/icons/grin.gif[/img]

[Belair62]

Sick ??? How fast does your Es-car-go [img]/ubbthreads/images/icons/grin.gif[/img]

[Rat_Pack]

Someone has seen Trading Places one time too many! [img]/ubbthreads/images/icons/grin.gif[/img] ..............RatPack..................

[sYc]

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[davenkc]

This next pic is the first time I tried out my scanner It is of my personally autographed copy of the well known hand out taken at Bristol Tenn. On the back it said To "Dave Libby best wishes" signed Dick Harrell. The Lace has been added in this pic and the logo has been changed to Fred Gibb
The hand out has been destroyed by a strange sequence of events. Suffice to say I was upset,but what is done is done.
There is not much one can say about a world championship car
Its winning record speaks loud. This car will rise again
for all to see take my word for it.
Dave

[davenkc]

This last pic is from a magazine, Hotrod I think and this is the last configuation seen for this car. There was a repaint done after the 69 season when it became known that the 70 Camaro would be released late, so late actually it was called a 70 1/2 Dick felt that the car should be changed somewhat. Now I dont pretend to know all there is to know about the reasons for this and actually it is not really important except that there were no new cars to use to make a "buck" (a mold for fiberglass) from. The car was ran like this picture as late as may 15 1970. It was on the front of Drag World that issue as having won the Kansas state championship race in Manhatten KS with Clyde Morgan driving.

[davenkc]

This is the ad I mentioned where the car is for sale in Jan 1971.

[menmyfcs]

And here it is now. Pretty sickening isn't it. [img]/ubbthreads/images/icons/frown.gif[/img]

[Jeff H]

Dave, great pictures! All I can say is that I was 3 years old back in 69 so it's hard for me to relate to what was going on in racing. All the pictures in this thread are great and you can't really find this stuff anywhere else. Thanks to everyone who has posted some of this history! [img]/ubbthreads/images/icons/laugh.gif[/img]