Cool race car names!

[Scotty D]

ok guys what about granny goose or the lemon wedge or as dick butler said wrecking crew which actually was your ss/c class winner at the 1984-1985 gatornationals. its a current make over of an old name and car from 30years ago.

[signguy007]

Originally Posted by Jim Carter

From the Scotch Plains area of New Jersey, back in the day, the following cars ran out of Ken Shilay's Shop:
"Rumpus 777" 63 Plymouth, owned by John Abraitis, recently pictured in Hemmings Muscle Cars.
""11TH Commandment" 64 Plymouth: Owner Unknown
"Bad Attitude": 55 Chevy G/S Owner Unknown

Other cars from that time and area:
"Iron Horse": 66 396, 375 El Camino from HOB Chevrolet owned by Jimmy Reaves
"Bisquick" : B/S 427 Biscayne, owned by Billy Izykowski

"Terrible Tangerine": Ralph Truppi and Tommy Kling's F/S 57 Wagon
"Bad Banana": Frank Iaconio's F/S 57 Coupe
"Cierious Problem" 66 Chevelle wagon S/S owned by the Cieri Bros.
"Dr. Destructo" K/S Vette owned by John Hoffman
"Moon Shine": 56 Chevy stocker, Owned by the Ronca Bros.
"Celluloid Hero": Herslow and Morlock 70 Friebird E/SA

"Yoo Hoo Too": Jesel's 56 Sedan Delivery Jr. Stocker
"Soul Survivor": 69 427 SS/D, Camaro owned by Sherwood Allen

Aaahh the good old days...

[Bunkster]

Columbus, Ohio...Bob Kempshaw (sp?)... very beautiful and competitive Modified Production 55 Nomad... "Papa Bear".

I believe Bob was a fatality in a trucking accident in the early seventies.

[Dave Wolfe]

Joe Alsippi,41Plymouth Iron Pilgram, Cecil Petty,65 Dodge Mopar Mastadon

[Isaac Zane]

I kinda like my uncle name for his Opel GT. "Wind Of Change" Which was rather appropriate considering he changed from a small block 69 Camaro to the Buick V6 powered Opel GT. An alternate name for this car might have been "A Gallon Of Go" as this was a 3.8 litre engine which everyone knows that 3.8 L = 1 gallon.

Rich Oakes' "Resurrection" He is currently on number 3. He had 57 Chevy named the "Green Onion" before that, with of course, a big block.

"Gorilla Milk", 57 Chevy that was white.

How about the "Screamin' Yellow Zonker" modified production VW??

East Coast Mazda of Al McEachern named the "Rotary Rattler".

Chip Banney's gasser the "Dancing Bear".

[Mike Bassin]

How about going way back to the early sixties at 75-80 drag-o-way in Maryland.
Bob Luck 57 Chevy F.I. car "Little Terror"
Bill Riddle 61 Ford 39f0 car "Mr X"
Glenn Rennie 61 Pontiac Catalina tri power car "Snort"
Dennis Durban 57 Chevy "Sea Dog" and later a Z-28 "Sea Terror"
Hubert Buttry with Ivan Jordan driving 62 red metal flake 409 "Rompin Redskin"
Leon Miranian 58 Chevy Bel Air :Fuel Injected Banana" and later 65 Impala "Armenian Rug Beater"
Malcom Durham 63 Z-11 Chevy "Strip Blazer"
Sam Pannuty 55 Chevy Gasser "Poor Boy"
Robbie Edwards 63 Max Wedge Dodge "Mr Dependable"
Fred Leigh 63 Max Wedge Plymouth "Mr Buttons"
Bud Faubel 63 Max Wedge Dodge "The Honker"

Lots more, will add more if I can rember them!

Track announcer, Mike Bassin

[CrateCamaro]

1967 Camaro- BANDITO circa 1973 E/Modified Production NHRA
1968 Camaro- BANDITO circa 2008 H/Crate Motor IHRA

[jack arnew]

MIKE 75/80 DRAGS on friday nights were the best racing going for me.
Try these names on for size.
BLACKJACK 64 T BOLT GLEN FRAZIER& JACK ARNEW
JACK THE RIPPER 64 A/S FORD
PINK SATTLELIGHT 34 FORD A/G SUPERCHARGER VERNON ROWLEY (deceased)
HEMI-ROIDE 68 CUDA SS/AA RICHARD SHIPPLEY

These are nanes from the past,(1956 thru 1975),before big money took over the sport.
I just guess that the way of things!

[Michael Beard]

And in an aside for Michael Beard, I just rememberd that Patches was lettered with self-adhesive shelf paper. This was in the mid-sixties. What a pioneer, huh?

My uncle was an art teacher, and he taught me that trick. I lettered about a half a dozen cars with Con-Tac paper. I'd sketch the design out on the Con-Tac paper in pencil, spray paint it the main color(s) with those little cans of Testor hobby paint, then hand paint or airbrush details onto them. Then I had to cut the design out with scissors. Application was a tough process! It actually worked really good in the beginning, but after a few years, the quality of the material and the adhesive dropped significantly.

That's how I originally did my "Dust Devil II", along with "Miss Misery", "Turn Me Loose", and a few other cars that ran at Beaver Springs.


This photo was from shortly after I finally got brave enough to hand paint and airbrush the "Dust Devil" and the Taz directly on the door for the first time.

[Ed Fernandez]

Originally Posted by Michael Beard

My uncle was an art teacher, and he taught me that trick. I lettered about a half a dozen cars with Con-Tac paper. I'd sketch the design out on the Con-Tac paper in pencil, spray paint it the main color(s) with those little cans of Testor hobby paint, then hand paint or airbrush details onto them. Then I had to cut the design out with scissors. Application was a tough process! It actually worked really good in the beginning, but after a few years, the quality of the material and the adhesive dropped significantly.

That's how I originally did my "Dust Devil II", along with "Miss Misery", "Turn Me Loose", and a few other cars that ran at Beaver Springs.


This photo was from shortly after I finally got brave enough to hand paint and airbrush the "Dust Devil" and the Taz directly on the door for the first time.

Hey Michael,did you beat the old man in the picture on that run?

Ed