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My first “real” race car was “the Tallman”, a 53′ Chevy Business Coupe. I bought the ex-telephone company car (less engine) from a guy in Hawthorn NY and my friend Pat Smith (also a Dover competitor) & I flat towed the car to my parents house in Fishkill one chilly night with a chain. United Rental must have been closed or I didn’t have enough $ to rent a tow bar. The car was a metallic green color and I hand painted the name “the Tallman” only on the drivers side because this was the side the spectators would see! I built a 108HP 235CI “stock” 6 cylinder for the car for NHRA stock class (N and then O) in my friend Doug Smith’s parents basement. I used a stock 3 speed tranny with a Hurst Syncro-Loc shifter and a stock (torque tube) rear end from a 49′ Chevy. The stock 49′ rear had 4:11 gears in it. I built my first set of tube headers – 4 into 1 – since the early Chevy six had 2 siamesed exhaust ports. I ran cheater slicks. The car was slow, in the 17-18 second range, but was fast enough to trophy about a dozen times and take home some Dover bucks at least three times in 65′.
I sold the car to Mike McDermott from Beacon NY in 66′ for about $800 after Doug Smith and I built and started racing the original “Six-Fiend” F/MP 57′ Chevy. Then I lost track of the 53′ stocker when I went in the Navy in Oct. 66. BTW Mike McDermott’s wife, Wendy, worked at the top-end handing out time slips.
The problem is I don’t even have one picture of the car so I would like some help tracking down a picture or two and possibly what happend to the car. Help!!
PS: I don’t have any pictures of the car but here are a few time slips. Notice the one on the right is dated Nov 7 1965, exactly 44 years to the day before the DoverDragStip reunion at Island last weekend! 😀
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