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I honestly don't know if he ran this car for the event he told me he ran the 64 fairlane for the winter nationals..
I wonder what the lettering on the door underneath tex Weldon says?

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No trans swap, the automatic was still in there. Before the NHRA restructured the Super Stock Eliminator classifications in 1967, S/SA stood for Super Stock Automatic and S/S stood for Super Stock manual transmission race cars.

Pete

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Don Grotheer, his wife and Hemi Barracuda 2010.

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It says "Don Grotheer".

I think Weldon was hoping he would get a blue printed engine out of the deal, but I think all Don did was a valve job and raised the front suspension stops. Just to be clear I don't think Don promised to do anything other than bring the car back!

Maybe Don ran the Fairlane at the 65 WinterNationals? I don't remember when he got his white 63.

Bill

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Yes no trans swap, the car was always an automatic.

The car has been fully restored. I think it lived in Lawton, OK for a while but I think it is in a private collection in Tennessee now.

Bill

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That would make more sense since Don mention that Chrysler used to give away 426mw engines as a top prize & said He ran a red car in the 64 nationals which I'm assuming now it might have been Tex's 64 plus he insists he sold the black 63 a few months before due to it not being competitive with the new hemi.
I've been told by a few people including him that he got the white car in 65 because they started a new class he wanted to race in & the aluminum front end is from a 64 that he made into a 63 I'm guessing from tex's car?
the ford might have been in 65 before the white 63 maybe he got the cars or years backwards which is understandable..
I guess I should give Joe smith a call..