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[409gang]

Car or no car the memories and articles are PRICELESS!

 

[1964SuperStocker]

Big reason we need the old timers to share on places like this so those memories will live on through us younger types.

 

[Phil Reed]

On the 62 Ault-James Biscayne, the racing exhaust was still on the car. It had straight tubing from the Mickey Thompson fender well headers to just past the rearend housing. The owner of the car said that was the rules then.
I'll see if I can find a picture.

Guess I need to learn how to rotate my pictures!!!!! Dickiemac....can you help????

 

[Barry Taylor]

Bryan Fugate found this on a Z11 facebook page. I’m not sure where this was taken and I don’t recognize whose car he was racing. Looks like it might have been Caddo Mills dragstrip

 

[Dick MacKenzie]

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Guess I need to learn how to rotate my pictures!!!!! Dickiemac....can you help????

Yes!

 

[Phil Reed]

Thank you Dickiemac!!!!!!!!

 

[mark johnson]

 

[Phil Reed]

That's the same 62 Biscayne right above!!!!!

 

[Skip FIx]

Barry just saw this cool pictures and history! I remeber a bazillion years ago you taking me over to the dealership and showing me an old 409 car.

 

[Barry Taylor]

The blue 62 Belair! Good memory!

 

[Skip FIx]

I thought it was blue! A bubble top and 2 upper rear end links? Don Hardy installed?

 

[Barry Taylor]

 

[brettc]

The Little Rock drag strip was in Benton Ark. Dad made numerous trips to this track after this race. The owner of the track would give Dad tow money to come up. On one trip the track owner who also owned the dirt track in Little Rock talked Dad into making a few laps in the dirt on Saturday night and of course the announcer was talking up the drag races on Sunday the next day.

And that dirt track just closed last october after 66 years -- I'm assuming it was the I-30 speedway.

 

[Barry Taylor]

I just read a post in the Jelopy journal that the track in Benton was a quarter mile track back in the early 60s and that it was just of I-30 and ran parallel to it! All tracks back in the day were quarter mile but by the late 60s some we’re shortened to either 1000 ft or eighth mile tracks because the cars were going so much faster.

 

[Murphdog]

Wow, this is amazing stuff. Looking at the pics of the 62 I see "Cornetts" Somerset Ky. That place is still in business and big into dirt track engines as far as I know. I have a customer in NC that we make some parts for and he talks about Cornetts. I'm pretty sure Red started the business. I found this on the web. "Ira Jackson "Red" Cornett founded Cornett Machine Shop in 1948 and was joined in 1976 by son Jack, who guides racing operations today. The elder Cornett continued working until his 2012 death at the age of 95."
Sometimes it seems like a small world we live in!
Jeff

 

[Z-11Guy]

It was put on the street with a steel nose and 327 4-speed around 1966-67. Rumored it ended up with Eugene Brown in Houston. He beat the hell out of the Hayden Proffit’s and Dick Harrell’s car and scrapped both bodies and saved the aluminum.

 

[Murphdog]

If he's still alive, Eugene Brown probably regrets that now!
Jeff

 

[Blk61409]

It was put on the street with a steel nose and 327 4-speed around 1966-67. Rumored it ended up with Eugene Brown in Houston. He beat the hell out of the Hayden Proffit’s and Dick Harrell’s car and scrapped both bodies and saved the aluminum.

A little update. I worked with Gene, actually bought a car from him. He lived in Ft Worth, Texas. He did “totally consume” Dick Harrell’s car. Hayden sold his car to Clyde McKnight and Gene did get the aluminum from that car. I ended up with all that aluminum.

 

[heddrik]

Then it is in good hands!