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Due to the popularity of the 4 door, this one is seldom seen:

http://www.draglist.com/photoimages/...ze/express.jpg

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Yes, I would definitely like to see more Pro Stock Pinto's posted...;)

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Heres more,,,just like you asked.
Photo 1: A couple NW Pintos,, Gary Coe's "Gunfighter" Pinto wagon
and Mike Rendell's "Rental Marts" sponsored Pinto at Seattle in '75.
Photo 2: Mike again, at the '75 Fallnationals along a "Malvern Monza".
Photo 3: Lee Hunter's Pinto along side the Gapp & Roush Maverick,, '75 Falls.
Photo 4: Gapp & Roush went back to their Pinto in '76 at the Fallnationals.
Photo 5: You know who,, at Ontario, California in '74.
Danny Durham

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Biggest case of "Nose Droop" I can remember seeing:

http://www.draglist.com/photoimages/...r%20Kumble.jpg

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Charlie, some Mopars suffered from "Nose Droop" too. This one at Ontario, Ca in '74.
Danny Durham

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And this is from a die-hard Mopar guy.......

Could somebody please post a photo of Ritchie Zul. He got more bang for the buck than anyone I saw in the 70's. He had a homebuilt 69 Camaro that had much bigger teams and budgets worried anytime he showed up. Then some jackwagons stole it.

He ended up with Grumpy's Camaro rental.

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All you had to do was asked !

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From 76 Winternationals.

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Heres the Monza at Seattle in '76. Whats interesting in this shot is that Zul's name is on the door,, but Lee Shepherd, standing here, was at this event. I don't recall if thats Zul sitting in the car,, it was too long ago .
Danny Durham

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Richie Zul drove the Monza for a while after Lee crashed it

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Anybody know where this car was from?When I was a kid they always stayed at the holiday inn in Kingsport Tn during the Bristol races for a couple years.They would feild dress it in the parking lot on Wed. and Thurs. it was just cool to see.

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Thats right,,, now that you mention it,, I remember that happening. Thanks for jogging the brain cells.
Danny Durham

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Shelby Jester- driver- Hot Springs, Arkansas

Andy White- owner-Abilene, Texashttp://www.draglist.com/draglist/adm....JPEG&full=yes

If you read the name correctly, including the Jackass pictured....it's Shag ***.

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Boy you never when I will show up. Looks like me in sun glasses, behind Vernon,s Duster with my 70 Pro Duster. Looks like it may be Capital Raceway around 1970

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Back in 72, I worked in a small store/warehouse on Long Island and across the street down a couple of blocks was Richie Zul's gas station. Richie would service our 68 Dodge van which we used for delivery and come down to hang a while when he brought it back. He did a lot of suspension and drivetrain work on my buddie's (who was the owner's son) 72 Javelin and I had done the engine so we hung at his gas station on some weekends and would drool over the Pro Stock car sitting there. In 77 I went to work in a local machine shop where Richie did all his engine building, mostly for customers, I got to do a lot of his machine work on some big name Pro Stock and boat motors he built. Richie was always very serious so he was frequently the brunt of practical jokes, some of which I still love telling.

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Good day all. The above posted photo of Doug Griffith's Duster was taken at the Division 1 pro/s circuit race in July 1971 at E.S.T.A. Safety Park
in Cicero, N.Y. I was there and took many photos that day that are posted in the 70's 80's pro/s group on yahoo.com
Great thread though.
Walt

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Some of our from the 80's
Tom or Ruth Kasch photos
ruth would be on one side of the track at Milan & I would be on the other.

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Some more from the 80's

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A few more from the 80's, races we ran at.
When Ken Dondero raced for "DYNO DON" in the 70's , he came to Milan & we became friends.

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In all areas of the country, there were always the local & regional racers that tried their hand at going against the touring pros and heavy hitters. Who were the racers in your part of the country that ran in Pro Stock but stayed close to home or competed in local circuits?
Heres a few from the NW and the "left coast" back in the day:
Photo 1: Ken Tucker's div.6 Vega at Portland, Ore. in '75.
Photo 2: Mike Rendell's Pinto from Washington & Gary Coe's Pinto wagon from Oregon in '74 at Seattle.
Photo 3: Mardy Maltais' Washington based Vega at Mission B.C. in '74.
Photo 4: Lee Hunter's div.7 Pinto against Gapp & Roush "Taxi" at Seattle in '75.
Photo 5: Gary Coe again in a Mustang II against Humphrey & Lambeck at Seattle in '80.
Photo 6: Gary Pugh's Monza from Washington against Dick Landy's Omni at Seattle in '80.
Photo 7: Terry Sherrill's Camaro from div.6, near lane at Seattle, '80. Not sure who the other Camaro in the far lane is.
Danny Durham

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Danny
Is there any connection between Ken Tucker & Grumpy's Vega??. It has a certain familiarity to it. (So it seems Wheel wells, wheelie bars etc.)

liteweight

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1980's Pro Stock ,

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I agree,, there is a certain familiarity to this Vega, compared to one hatched in Pennsylvania around '72, but I'm sure its just one of many "copycats" that appeared all around the country back then. This was the only time I ever saw this car. I'd never heard of Ken Tucker before that,,, or since. If someone know what happened to that car or racer, chime in and bring us up to date.
Danny Durham

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Never saw this one before...anyone know who this is?

http://img803.imageshack.us/img803/5...erracecars.jpg

M68

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a few more from the 80's
Tom Kasch photos

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Is this the one they put the "automatic transmission" in that stirred up things so much?
Don't remember if it was really a timed, air shifted deal or what but I do remember they outlawed it the next year.

http://classracer.com/classforum/att...1&d=1359069821

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Looks like the name is "Mike" Brawning maybe. Ray Williams mechanic. And by the name of the car just guessing it's from West Virginia.

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Yes! Remember seeing it at the 86 Keystones (he won). I think it was electric solenoids that did the shifting.

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I remember a Diamond P in car camera of that car. Both hands on the wheel. And I think you are correct about the timed shifts. Similiar to the clutch timers in the funny cars now.

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That looks like an interested Lee Shepherd looking at the front of Harold Martin's car.
Danny Durham

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Todays 80's pro stockers.

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My 80s pro stocker from ten years ago and now.

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A few more for today 80's.

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Some for Saturday.

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http://public.fotki.com/tk3300/pro_stocks_of_the/

Our fotki album of 70's pro stockers

and our 80's album
http://public.fotki.com/tk3300/pro_stock_of_the/

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Not to start an argument or anything, but could somebody post the first runs by a Pro Stock in the 9's, 8's, and 7's please.

No match race stuff please, NHRA legal setups.

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It seems to me that back in the day I read that WJ was the first try the "automatic" shifter transmission but I'm old and the memory ain't what it never was!

JimR

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I'm sure someone will correct me,, but at the '70 Winternationals,, the first Pro Stock show at a NHRA national event, Bill Jenkins' Camaro went I believe, a 9.98, while Sox and everyone else was still in the 10s,,, as far as 8s go,, Glidden was in his prime, so maybe he did it, and if I recall correctly, the first 7 came after the rules change, to the current setup, 500 c.i. at 2300lbs?,, and I think Frank Iaconio was the first. I'm just going off the top of my head, no research attempted. I'm sure theres a list somewhere.
Danny Durham

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Does anybody have pictures from the early 70's of the pro/stockers in the NW, Bob Lambeck, Rob Robinson, Robin Whitcomb,Ron Henderson, Pete Kost,and I'm sure there are others i can't think of in action, also there was the Riddler cars of the Colletti's that where stock and super stock and didn't The Ron Tonkin run a drag race team also?