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Dino,
Post some Dover Drag Strip stuff.

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Here's an old Fenton mag wheel advertisement...

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/a...6&d=1232659160

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When I mentioned the "brother" wheels to the Cragar S/S I was referring to the Cragar G/T and S/T. You didn't see too many of them since the chrome S/S looked so good very few bought the others.

The other wheels used the same center casting, but one had a black finish center with chromed rim and the other had a natural cast center.

At least that's how I remember them.

I still remember how odd the Super Tricks looked the first time I saw them. We went from the classic good looks of the S/S to the pure function of a disk wheel.

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How much would a car pick up going from the old heavy Cragar SS to the light weight Super tricks?

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Let's not forget the Zeeker Max Wedge-style aluminum cylinder heads for the 383/440 cu. in. Mopar that Loren developed and sold in the early-mid-1980s, forerunner to Indy Cylinder Heads' version of same head based on the patterns and molds they bought from Mr. Zeedyk.

http://62.imagebam.com/download/3ZeC...r%26Indy-1.jpg
(Zeeker head in the background vs. Indy cylinder head in the foreground)

M68

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Back in the late 1980s an acquaintance of mine (Frank Maffiore of Ask Frank First fame) switched from Chevy Rally wheels w/center caps to Weldwheels (8-hole version) and reduced the ET a couple of tenths in his mid-eleven second 1980(?) Chevy Malibu bracket car.

Based on that, I'd guess it'd be a similar performance improvement switching from heavy Cragar S/S to very light Super Tricks.

M68

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I had a set of Cragar GT's on my 65 elcamino.
Natural gray center and machined aluminium rim.
I really liked the look of those rims except there was no offset to them.

http://igniteeye.up.seesaa.net/image/cragar-gt.jpg

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I bought a 64 Plymouth with aluminum fenders from Loren. No drivetrain,wheels tires or rear end housing, fiberglass hood,. the interior was mostly aluminum as it had been made into a bracket car. It did have the trade mark Black & yellow with Dragway Automotive painted on it. This wasn't to long before he started Zeeker. Do you remember when he and David Mosley started a company called APE, Atlanta Performance Engineering?

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Interesting history on the Brainbeau '67 car...I always thought Burgess was "Mopar-only." By coincedence, I was at that Sanford race when they got the mph record but I
don't remember the car...I was too busy watching Grump's SS/C Camaro win Super Stock (I think?) Believe they got most of the event in the books when it started to pour...in fact this July date was a re-run of the original June date if I'm not mistaken?

On the way home through town, noticed activity at a local gas station and stopped. Saw Grump's car, the "Kicks" B/S Biscayne, and other cars being torn down under the gas pump canopies.

BTW Paul, do you know where the Brainbeau '66 car ended up?

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Gene Horn had the Brainbeau 66 Olds for years, sold it back to Loyed Woodland who recently sold it to Ross Hunsinger.