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Ron Steiner 07-20-2015 04:43 PM
Re: Ss/x
 
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
Re: Ss/x
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Painter (Post 477001)
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
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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
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

MR DERBY CITY 07-20-2015 08:25 PM
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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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Quote:
Originally Posted by MR DERBY CITY (Post 477029)
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
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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
Re: Ss/x
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Dwight Southerland (Post 476728)
+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
Re: Ss/x
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Chuck Norton (Post 477050)
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
Re: Ss/x
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Dwight Southerland (Post 476733)
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.....


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