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Old 01-17-2017, 01:39 PM   #1
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Wow, great pic Tom, we have never seen that one!






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Old 01-17-2017, 03:06 PM   #2
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Our picture of Jeff Velde SS-f Mustang.
http://www.imagebam.com/image/955207526951965

A guy called me this morning and asked me what I knew about this Mustang.
He had been researching it, and said Jeff told him after he bought it a guy offered him BIG money for it. So he built a clone , painted it red ,etc.
That was the car sold at the auction this weekend NOT the original car , the guy who bought it from Jeff still has it.
That was what I was told.
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Old 01-17-2017, 03:45 PM   #3
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Tom,

Hate to tell you, but the car at the auction was my uncle's car. I knew every inch of that car and it was my uncle's car. My uncle sold the car to one of our mechanics back at our dealership in Illinois around '82. He raced the car for a couple years and sold to some bracket racers out of Tennessee and they raced it until the late '80's and we lost track. My uncle was building another one identical to the Nitro 9 car when he decided to sell both of them and go Comp racing with a Pinto that was also one of Glidden's cars. The second car is probably the car the guy still has. Hope that helps.




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Old 01-17-2017, 04:45 PM   #4
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For what ever reason, I can't access Class racer and post comments. He is right. The car that went to Mecum was Jeff Velde's car. My argument is that Velde's car was NOT Gliddens old car. Turnage told me he sold Gliddens old car to Steve Retton and then built another car that eventually became Jeff Velde's car. We raced against both cars when I was with Davis. Turnage ran the second car in SS/E for a short time and we had to run him ( The second car ) for class. The next weekend, we were running Steve Retton at PID with Gliddens old car... Give anyone my phone number and have them call me. 330-692-3785... I welcome any conversations on this issue...
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Old 01-17-2017, 04:54 PM   #5
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This is the story that I got from multiple and recent telephone conversations with Gene Turnage. Gene told me that Steve Retton from Fairmont, WV offered them a lot of money for the car he and Clyde Brandon were racing at the time. They sold the car to Retton. That car was Glidden's old car. They immediately built a second car with tubs and a ladder bar with slider suspention and painted it the same as the first Glidden car. Red and Nitro 9 on the side. That was the car that went to Velde. It was not Gliddens car according to Turnage. We were racing Turnage for class one weekend in the second car, then racing Retton at PID the next weekend in the first car. Turnage told me that he raced Retton for clas at Englishtown in 1974. Two red 68 Mustangs with Nitro 9 on the side. Turnage beat Retton and Retton got pissed and said, " If I knew you were going to build another one, I wouldn't have bought the first one ". This is all from a recent phone conversation with Gene Turnage...

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Old 01-17-2017, 05:16 PM   #6
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Great to hear these stories before my uncle had it. Awesome car, that car gave me the drag racing disease I have today LOL. Wonder what happen to the second car my uncle was finishing, it was a roller ready to go, even the same red color? I think I remember him saying that Brandon & Turnage found it up in a yard in Tennessee or Georgia.





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Old 01-17-2017, 06:13 PM   #7
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Our picture of Jeff Velde SS-f Mustang.
http://www.imagebam.com/image/955207526951965

A guy called me this morning and asked me what I knew about this Mustang.
He had been researching it, and said Jeff told him after he bought it a guy offered him BIG money for it. So he built a clone , painted it red ,etc.
That was the car sold at the auction this weekend NOT the original car , the guy who bought it from Jeff still has it.
That was what I was told.
That was Gene Turnage that told me this, not Jeff Velde...
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Old 01-17-2017, 08:23 PM   #8
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That was Gene Turnage that told me this, not Jeff Velde...
Well guys I was just a kid at the time, but my uncle had told us that his car was Glidden's at one time, so that's all I know!




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Old 01-17-2017, 09:41 PM   #9
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There has always been a lot of confusion about that simply because Brandon and Turnage had two 68 CJ Mustang super stock cars in a short period of time. Both painted red and both with Nitro 9 on the side...
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Old 01-18-2017, 10:10 AM   #10
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I think we have some pic's when my uncle got it from Brandon & Turnage with "the Bob Glidden race cars" painted on top the front fenders.





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