Re: ASK THE FORD ANSWER MEN

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😀 😀 😀 Hey Paul…Linda & Harvey…paid less than $5,000 for the car…and we of course…paid Al Joniec less than $5,000 as well…they did buy a trailer,spare Nash pro-shifted top loader,cases of oil,plugs,etc. as part of the “package”…Harvey wanted to go racin’ “right”…and Linda…saw to it that he had a good car…and plenty of spare equipment to to function…week to week…the Pomona cars were prepared by Bill Stroppe & associates…out on west coast…they ran SS/E and SS/EA at Pomona in ’68…They were Al Joniec’s Rice-Holman car,Gas Ronda’s Russ Davis car,Dyno Don Nicholson’s Fougler Ford car,Bill Lawton’s Tasca car,Hubert Platt’s Paul Harvey Car…these were the only “factory backed” CJ cars…actually…ever…for sure a lot of “privateers”…ran very well…but at Dover Drag Strip…Harvey Wilson…was the “primo” CJ car…bar none…only time Harvey …if in fact he ever lost to another CJ car…was if he beat himself via redlight/missed shift/late at start…U…get the idea… 😆 😆 😆 …for me the smell of napalm…naw’… actually nitro…was in the air by the end of the 1968 season…when we bought car (SS/car)….some “caballeros’ (from Stamford)…did attempt to steal that car out of Carmel Ford…steel-wooling up collectors,etc..and were close to going out the back door of the shop…but ol’ eagle eye Carmel police…who had pulled round back to snooze (reguarly) after the late night coffee/doughnuts 😆 😆 😆 …nailed ’em…guy/officer ( the late Charlie Leonard, went on to be chief for many years…great guy…true friend of my dad’s)…that was a bit of a “down-side” of those days..Carmel Ford was broken into pretty reguarly…a lot of “stuff” stolen…Route 6…was pretty desolate…in 1968…easy prey for guys with “long fingers”/bad intentions(for us) ‘eh 😆 😆 :lol:…that’s..it…for now…hoss… 😀 😀 😀 Drake