You may know the name, tho, as “The Lone Wolf” for Paul Mennett’s Cruisin’ New England magazine for 20 years…He also was a Daily Newspaper Editor and is selling that T-bucket in our For Sale section.Welcome to the good ship DDS.com ‘Hollywood” ! ….heres one of his legendary Bench Racing Stories…just had to share:
” We made the ’99 IHRA nationals at New England, and this is honest-to-God truth, in the top dragster class running a (’56 iron) 1200 hp, 392 hemi (punched to 406) with 354 heads, basic layover ’56 indy style shorty injectors, and alcohol, worked street Powerglide and ’69 8.75 top fuel rear. Last to qualify, first to lose, but we did it in a ’69 old school rail. LONG story on that one. The car wasn’t idling right, and all we had were high gears set up in reverse.So, it idled at 1900 with a 2200 stall. I did a TV burnout, shoved it into reverse and cleared the stacks, only to whiplash back up the pad and just about pin my crew chief to the tower. The safety chief came flying out of the staging safety area and waved me off; I waved HIM off and we went for it…losing, of course to a checkbook, computerized, mail- order rear engine dragster. But the crowd loved it. “
Ricks an ol Media Guy ,and has prepared all kinds of killer Press releases about the Race and submitting them ALL over to his Press Buddies ….YAHOO 😀
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