Recent content by Z-11Guy

Been on the phone weekly with Don Kimball jogging his memory of the Z-11. There were so many speed secrets he had up his sleeves the list goes on. One of his big secrets was the ignition system. He had a guy at GE in Syracuse rework the distributor. Don could floor the Z-11 out of the hole and...

Don Hatten Chevrolet (Bill Clay Driver/Owner)) silver blue car. Engine still exists body junked. Yingling Chev (later Quality Chev sponsor), Bill Schultz palomar red car restored.

I thought it was Paul Mitchell thought I could be wrong. He bought the car from Earl Wade in 1965 after the wheel base was altered a bit and competed in A/MP. Mitchell sold the body to somebody in Phoenix and the last time it was spotted was in 1985 sitting behind a muffler shop in pretty tough...

Just got off the phone with Don Kimball tonight, what a great guy to talk to. We spoke for awhile on the 409 and Z-11 days. I will be talking to him again tomorrow night.

Make them from train model lettering and some imagination

Just pumping out this model for Herb McCandless ‘62 409. I am trying to get these models done for famous racers fast as I can before Xmas. What Sox, Shahan, Dyno, Schartman had in common before they became pro stocker superstars in AMC, Fords and a Mopar they all started behind the wheel of a...

Evan, when I spoke to HL way back in 1997 at Norwalk he told me the car was converted to a 327 with the 4-speed and steel nose. Shirley told me they sold it to a young woman in Tulare in 1965. It was seen for awhile and disappeared. It was last spotted in 1969 in a parking lot at Pomona...

Shirley received the model and promptly placed it in her vast collection. She sent me a few shots of her with the Z-11 in ‘63.

Built and sent this Z-11 model to Shirley Shahan. She said when she opened the package and held her Z-11 she cried. I really had no idea building models of past supers stockers and giving them to racers and friends here would created such an emotional response as it did with many others before...

Is the coil okay? I know sometimes when they get hot they don’t spark. Also is it a dual point distributor?