Looking for my 55 Chevy E/G’er

[tomblakeParticipant]

Looking through the Bill Cullin collection I found something interesting about my ’55. I didn’t remember the car running B/Gas till I saw the two pictures that follow. After blowing up the 283 I put the 409 in the car and that’s how it has the B/G on the windshield.
The two pictures were taken on the same day even though they were in the “1963-1 and the mixed years”.
Looking at the people in the back ground it had to be the same day.
You just never know what is in some of the pictures people have taken over the years.
Thanks to Bill Cullin for more of the memories that would have been lost forever.

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[dinoKeymaster]

If the slide was marked ,we could put it in correct ‘folder’. Obviously you did some deeper investigating showing the same day And Bill shot consecutive runs.

[masoParticipant]

So… the 409 was in three different drag strip cars then.

[tomblakeParticipant]

That’s correct on the 409 being in three different drag cars that all raced at Dover.
The engine came with a ’62 Chevy 2 door hardtop that I bought, the blown up engine was in the trunk. Rebuilt the engine, Don Scinto did all the machine work and I assembled it for the 55 Chevy, that’s when it ran in B/Gas except for the first weekend when it ran in E/Gas with the 409.
Bill MacWilliams got the ’37 Ford that we partnered up with and put the 409 engine with the 4 speed out of the ’55 into it to run B/A. There is another picture of the ’37 with an A/G on the window that I didn’t remember till looking at the Bill Cullin collection. That picture is posted here.
Than finally it went into the A/MSP fiberglass body car and that’s were it stayed till the crash in South Carolina.

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[dinoKeymaster]

Tom …is that 3 win decals on the coupe back window from another track ? which one ?

[masoParticipant]

quote dinotheweirdo:

Tom …is that 3 win decals on the coupe back window from another track ? which one ?

Those look like Westhampton win decals. The other two look like Jahn’s Pistons and Edelbrock Equipment, if I know my decals okay.

You couldn’t salvage the W-block after the South Carolina crash…?

[tomblakeParticipant]

Maso…..Believe you are correct about the decals but they were not won by Bill or myself. The win stickers were on the car when we put it together.
The engine survived the crash but I didn’t have a place for it at the time so I sold it to a guy in South Carolina.

[john-sachs-srParticipant]

Could be WAY OFF BASE on this,but I think the Mid Port ’40 Chev. belonged to “Frog” from Harrison. 😮 Algon injected small block,fabrication & paint by Brian Dowling(Fenimore A.B.).
Grover may remember,Tom Ceruzzi certainly would. ❓
John

[tomblakeParticipant]

John….If you remember the Mid Port ’40 Chevy do you remember if that car ran B/Gas?
I posted that picture because it looks like the ’40 Chevy and my ’55 behind it were both marked B/G.
I have been making a time line on my ’55. It seems like when it was painted orange without lettering it was too early to have the 409 engine in it. But this picture looks like it was running B/G. Looks like to me both cars are B/G.

[dinoKeymaster]

I can see plainly on it …says B/G

[masoParticipant]

quote TomBlake:

Maso….Hi again, you do find some interesting drag race stuff. Looks like someone should inspect the cars a little better. I didn’t even see a driveshaft in slow motion and I know it has to be there.
Saw your guitar video………..cool.

Now… I will show you a racing wheel and tire that has eyes of it’s own…!!!

You think I’m kidding… go see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fooox6hbjzM&feature=rec-HM-rev-rn

Top THAT…!!!

😆 😆 😆

Here’s another one…!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JhVU-Sbb10

[tomblakeParticipant]

Maso….Pretty cool stuff. Do you just sit and surf the web or do you look for car related things. Tires that have a mind of their own, neat.

[tomblakeParticipant]

The ’55 was the E/G Division Champion at York 30 Pa. Found a picture of the Jacket we won with the car. Back than you had a choice, a nice big trophy or a jacket you could show off where ever you went.
We took the jacket so we could show it off. We went to the National on Long Island a few weeks later with the jacket.
Decided to stop at a bar on the way home, left the jacket and never saw it again. 😳 😆

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[masoParticipant]

That’s too bad that you lost your prize jacket. I would have told my story to the people at York to ask them if I could buy a replacement since it is something that you were entitled too and they might have understood and comply with your request.

I see the shadow of the photographer’s head on the rear fender of your car…!

That jacket is so cool…! I would have taken it over the trophy any day…

[tomblakeParticipant]

Maso….
“I see the shadow of the photographer’s head on the rear fender of your car…!”

I knew less about photography than I did about racing back than and not much about either.

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