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Wonder if anyone on here knows anything about this old photo I found and the car in it? Unlikely I agree. LoL
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@12cents I think one of our 58 Bumper Specialists might have a connection to this altered. You are right it was a wild class back in the day!
 
12cents said:
Only had time for a quick search but couldn't find anything on this one. The altered class of drag racing was quite wild in its heyday.

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Fred, I could talk here for hours with nothing to do with 1958s. The guy at the front in the yellow hat was Carl "Curly" Rowland, my partner in Drag Dimensions, the guy to his left is Karl "The Jap" Skura. Fellow at the back I don't know who it is but the third guy in this team was Dave Pratt who worked at Karbelt. This car was runner up in Competition Eliminator at the US Nationals in 1967. The car was named Percy Also but that again is another story that I could tell you. It was a an NHRA Record holder for two years, running a 288 cubic inch small block mouse motor, same as what my race car partner, Nick Minialoff and I used in our B/Gas Anglia. Later Nick bought out Dave Pratt and the team changed engines to a Chrysler Hemi. Here are a couple more pics, one at Indy When Curly lost to Virgil Cates in Comp Eliminator. If you want to learn a little more about the story of this car just click on the url....Percy Also starts at about the 6 minute mark..https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1MDWcHZgdU .......Oh those were the days........Peter Roberts

Percy Also At Indy 1967.
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Engine and sponsor change to Hemi and changing team from Dave to Nick.

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The way it ended circa 1916
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Nick, Curly and The Jap.

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My partner Nick Minialoff and our B/Gas Anglia running identical engine to Percy Also.
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12cents said:
That was awesome 1bad9t9. Thanks for the information. Pity the network admins don't allow us to watch youtube onboard here but I have it bookmarked for when I get home. Again, Thanks.
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You can post links to Youtube here and click on them and watch them here all you like. Not sure where you got that idea. There's a few hundred of them posted on the Driving Tunes thread. Here's a link to the CCF rules. I know it's a lot to ask but you will find your answers there... By the way. I watched that youtube link here "onboard"...

Forum Rules and User Manual

https://canadiancorvetteforums.com/threads/ccf-user-manual.15525/
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Rruuff Day said:
You can post links to Youtube here and click on them and watch them here all you like. Not sure where you got that idea. There's a few hundred of them posted on the Driving Tunes thread. Here's a link to the CCF rules. I know it's a lot to ask but you will find your answers there... By the way. I watched that youtube link here "onboard"...

Forum Rules and User Manual

https://canadiancorvetteforums.com/threads/ccf-user-manual.15525/
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Eric, it is out here at work that the admins lock them out. Sorry for the confusion on that one. Bandwidth is limited offshore and expensive. But someday in the near future I expect that to change.
 
12cents said:
Eric, it is out here at work that the admins lock them out. Sorry for the confusion on that one. Bandwidth is limited offshore and expensive. But someday in the near future I expect that to change.
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No worries Fred. The confusion was mine. I should have paid more attention to your words...lol. Have a good shift.
 

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