Ss/x - Page 3

Ron Steiner · 07-20-2015, 04:43 PM

I have a complete running '57 265 2bbl if anybody is looking for one. under 1000 miles since rebuild.

Mark Yacavone · 07-20-2015, 04:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Painter

Pat may have bought the checkerboard car from val, but it was or had been Tim Neja's car. Tim was killed in the towing accident. There were two cars painted almost the same, lettering slightly different. Tim's brother Tom has faithfully restored the other car. It is gorgeous. And yes the other one is resting, i visit it when in Hopkinsville. Made a lot of laps in that old car, saw a lot of win lights. Great ol car.

Mr P , You've got your T's reversed.
Tim is very much alive .He participates in The HAMB Junior stock thread from time to time.

Painter · 07-20-2015, 05:05 PM

My very sincere apologies to Tim. I never met either and had fogotten which one was killed. The car we have is the one with Tim's name on it and was in Super Stock magazine a long long time ago.

mtkawboy · 07-20-2015, 05:52 PM

Wasn't there a 60 4 door wagon model that fit into X class with a 283 2 barrel. We ran a 59 283 2 barrel, 4 speed Biscayne in K and later changed to P/S

MR DERBY CITY · 07-20-2015, 08:25 PM

Mr. Stevenson, my memory is failing..didn't Charley Moores purchase the Checkerboard car from Ryan ? I always thought that Ryan purchased the Checkerboard car from Hedworth ? M.J.

Chuck Norton · 07-21-2015, 12:22 AM

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Originally Posted by MR DERBY CITY

Mr. Stevenson, my memory is failing..didn't Charley Moores purchase the Checkerboard car from Ryan ? I always thought that Ryan purchased the Checkerboard car from Hedworth ? M.J.

MJ, to the best of my knowledge, Val never owned a '55 two-door, Tim's checkerboard car or any other. He had the orange '55 wagon and the matching '55 four-door, and the all-white '56 two-door wagon. Ryan bought the '55 wagon and the Zoelle Brothers ended up with the '56 in Super Stock in 1972. Don't have a clue as to the final fate of the four-door. After the 1972 season, he switched from the Tri-fives to a '65 Malibu 327 SS/NA.

Lyn Smith · 07-21-2015, 08:29 AM

Talked to Ted Harbit a little over the weekend at the Old Time Meltdown drags at Byron IL. .He won class at Indy in his Studebaker "Chicken Hawk" 8 years in the 60s to early seventies.Sadly the Chicken Hawk was destroyed in a racing accident in 09.He told me sometimes there was 20 cars in his class(k/s to v/s).He quit racing NHRA in 72 when they got rid of the old cars in stock.

ss wannabee · 07-21-2015, 09:32 AM

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Originally Posted by Dwight Southerland

+20 cu in, +half point of compression and better heads on the 283 back then. Probably not. Was SS/X a 20 lb class or a 21 lb class?

Despite a slightly better engine, those '60's had to work a bit harder due to that wider body...maybe that in itself equalized the '57 cars...but then again we're talking
about cars that had trap speeds of maybe 90 mph?

I remember 3 basic combos in the class...the 162 hp '57 Chevy...the 170 hp '60-'62
Chevy, and the 135 hp early Olds...were there other ways to get into SS/X?

ss wannabee · 07-21-2015, 09:37 AM

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Originally Posted by Chuck Norton

MJ, to the best of my knowledge, Val never owned a '55 two-door, Tim's checkerboard car or any other. He had the orange '55 wagon and the matching '55 four-door, and the all-white '56 two-door wagon. Ryan bought the '55 wagon and the Zoelle Brothers ended up with the '56 in Super Stock in 1972. Don't have a clue as to the final fate of the four-door. After the 1972 season, he switched from the Tri-fives to a '65 Malibu 327 SS/NA.

Wasn't the checkerboard car owned for a time by Bruce Wilkerson from KY? He had
a '55 -150 in SS/T in the '70's and I though that was the car.

When the Neja's ran it in Stock...believe it was featured in PHR magazine...maybe
others?

ss wannabee · 07-21-2015, 09:46 AM

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Originally Posted by Dwight Southerland

Just a couple of years. By 1974 SS/U was the lowest class at 18 lbs. Probably politics was at work to get rid of the lower classes. It wasn't because of lack of participation because there were 7 cars in SS/X at Indy in 1973.

Dwight...would you know what kind of cars those 7 entries were? As far as who the
"hitters" were in SS/X....Kronenbitter would be top spot with the "Bits-n-Pieces car...
wasn't he runner-up at Columbus? Also, I think Randy Heer made some noise down
your way with his early Olds.....That's about all I remember.....

07-20-2015, 04:43 PM	#21
Ron Steiner Junior Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 44 Likes: 0 Liked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: Ss/x I have a complete running '57 265 2bbl if anybody is looking for one. under 1000 miles since rebuild.

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Painter Member Join Date: Dec 2012 Posts: 227 Likes: 4 Liked 161 Times in 45 Posts	Re: Ss/x My very sincere apologies to Tim. I never met either and had fogotten which one was killed. The car we have is the one with Tim's name on it and was in Super Stock magazine a long long time ago.

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mtkawboy Member Join Date: May 2003 Location: Billings Mt Posts: 279 Likes: 112 Liked 54 Times in 18 Posts	Re: Ss/x Wasn't there a 60 4 door wagon model that fit into X class with a 283 2 barrel. We ran a 59 283 2 barrel, 4 speed Biscayne in K and later changed to P/S

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MR DERBY CITY VIP Member Join Date: Feb 2014 Location: Derby City, USA Posts: 3,326 Likes: 858 Liked 6,604 Times in 1,287 Posts	Re: Ss/x Mr. Stevenson, my memory is failing..didn't Charley Moores purchase the Checkerboard car from Ryan ? I always thought that Ryan purchased the Checkerboard car from Hedworth ? M.J.

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Lyn Smith VIP Member Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Pontiac,il. Posts: 1,121 Likes: 217 Liked 841 Times in 156 Posts	Re: Ss/x Talked to Ted Harbit a little over the weekend at the Old Time Meltdown drags at Byron IL. .He won class at Indy in his Studebaker "Chicken Hawk" 8 years in the 60s to early seventies.Sadly the Chicken Hawk was destroyed in a racing accident in 09.He told me sometimes there was 20 cars in his class(k/s to v/s).He quit racing NHRA in 72 when they got rid of the old cars in stock. Last edited by Lyn Smith; 07-27-2015 at 07:21 PM.