Impressed by the garage doors!!! You are too easy
In a barn up the road
- Thread starter RCampbell
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I can't recall much about the car. I thought it was fast...but it wasn't. Started as a bone stock...home built 409...I bought for $150. TCI powerglide...8" converter...4.88s. Probably ran 12.90s...maybe 108. Later motor was a .060 over...aluminum rod...with home worked heads. I think that motor got us into the 11s. Car was full bodied with a complete interior...no roll barSo what's all the story on the Biscayne?
You know....all the juice stuff
Like the engine specs
Gear / Trans
E.T. / Mph
Good days / Bad days
Russ, that would have been one of the old Saint Louis International races that Len Greco used to put on. Here's the ex-Mike Martin '61 Impala from California that was purchased by someone in the southern Illinois area. Haven't seen it around in a very long time though.
I remember the race The 61 did come from Mike Martin to Donnie Shaffer. Had an early Joe Sherman motor. I believe this was the only time Donnie raced the car. He collapsed a piston dome. He sold the car shortly after. James...I believe you have the pistons. The car in the other lane is ..Rick Johnson's Pontiac. Rick still has the car
What are the front wheels on Ol Red?
The first belair began as a small steel piece with a Day Automotive 453. Car evolved to be fiberglass equipped...with mini tubs. The motor was later updated by Ruble racing. The car ended up at about 3600# and ran 10.20s. At the end the car wasn't as safe as it needed to be. We bent the frame...bent the drive shaft. The car was retired and we built the second red belair to be safe and fast That car went through an evolution...ran pro nostalgia. It finially ran 9.16 with a stock block W...8.70s with a 430 inch BBC Dick Mackenzie has that car with and early motor
As I recall they came as spare tires
Steel.
Yes...maybe 4.5"Steel.
Gosh Dickie Mac let us know when you come down to US 13 and turn those 8’s. Betcha Charlie will have the railbirds throwing big money that day and I would like to be there!
Robert
Oops thank for clearing that up Rus as I would have lost big with the railbirds I would be giving good odds that MacKenzie would turn 8’s but instead he turns low 9’s!
Robert
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High 9s Robert. I'm too old and sKeered to run as fast as Russ does! 
