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tom-k

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Hello, my name is Tom Kowal and our family are the proud owners of "Faded Memories"-- a 1963 Belair sedan with a 409 powering it. Built By Dave Campbell in 1996-98 and first raced at indy back in 1988. Dave raced the car for years in 12 states and 26 different tracks--Right now,engine is at the machine shop for a sleeve in #7 and we will be racing this year in Michigan, Ohio, Illinois, and Indiana--if you see us please stop by and say hello-------glad to be on this forum, thanks tom
 

tom-k

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Have many conversations with Dave through emails and hoping to meet him when the NSS gos to US36 in May. We already signed up for Glory Days this year and plan on making the Meltdown. We plan on being at Great Lakes also when they are there. Also planning on being at the Pontiac Nationals with the super stocks at Summit Motorsports Park and hoping to go to Havana if we don't go down to Beech Bend-its the same weekend. We have had a great time everywhere we have raced.
 

tom-k

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Heres some pics--don't have any of the engine, its at the machine shop for a sleeve--65 truck block bored 60 over, 454 crank, th400 trans, 2-750 carbs on a custom intake made from an original gm manifold--runs great and a blast to drive--the dragster in the one pic is my sons--62 original dragmaster with a 327
 

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tom-k

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I lucked in, i was looking for spider gears for the rearend of my son's 62 front engine dragster--put an ad on the hamb website and a fellow 30 miles north of me had them Went to pick them up and found Faded Memories sitting there in the trailer Dave Campbell(he built faded memories) used to haul the car since buying the trailer in 94.The gentleman bought it and was a long time drag racer but was getting up in years, took it to Lapeer Dragway and it scared the hell out of him , so he was going to change it into a street car. He took off some of the lettering, added a bunch of things i ended up taking off --i feel that we bought the car and saved it-We try to keep it as much as we can to being the way Dave built in back in the 80's-its been on the strip since 1988, with now a little over 46,000 original miles on it. When we bought it ,we upgraded the roll cage and when we pulled out the carpet found the original primer with no rust in the car. It has fiberglass doors, hood, front fenders, decklid, and bumpers. Dave told me that he raced the car at 26 tracks in 12 states,--he was one of the founders of the Nostalgia Super Stock, Inc.. Our family feels proud to own such a great car with such a history and looking forward to many more runs down the strip--the car is a blast to drive and everyone we meet are such great people...
 
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