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Our 70 Challenger Convertible "Direct Connection Dodge"
Charlene and Gary Woods wagon "Tons O Fun"
Stan Welsh's pinto "Hobby Horse"
Our street race car "Rat Poison"

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My Daddy ran this Duster in Super Stock started in 1976 he always had JR on the Door because that was is name.(1st) Picture.

When he sold it Mid 1990s we ran Super Rod & Quick Rod (9.90& 8.90) and the whole car had change but still had JR on it.(2nd) Picture

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That Ault and James Vette, the black split window.... Just too cool.

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Had a friend Don Shirley (R.I.P.) ran a roadster in Comp. elim back in the day called "HOG WASH" I asked him did that have any meaning, and he said " It's as close to Bull **** as you can get" at the time thought that was very funny. Plus it fits in this forum like a O.J. glove.

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Not sure if it was mentioned before but Happy Harry had a pink camaro named
"Not Pink".We ran each other quite a bit in Pro ET.I saw the name on the back alot,but he saw "Flying Shoebox" on the back of my 1973 gremlin also.
Changed over to "American Graffiti" in 1980 and the name has stuck since then.

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"Sounds of Silence" a car Jimmy Moore owned in the sixties?

Love that name!

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Back in the 80's every jacked up Camaro on the street had to be named after some kind of heavy metal song or lyric.Some cornier then others.my first car was a blue 67 culass that had the name blue max already on it so that dont count.

My first camaro which I bought in 1989 I named Powerslave after the Iron Maiden album.My current car has the name powerslave 4 in little letters on the decklid,but there have been 6 bonafied Powerslaves since I have owned other cars while I had this one.I still own Slave 1 and have what might become slave 7 in the driveway right now.Here are some other names to grace the rear spoilers of my friend's high school hot rods.

Wheels of Fire {Man-O -War song}
Live Wire and Spit Fire{2 friends who were obviously fans of Motley Crue and Kixx)
The Road Warrior {nuff said}
One Bad Habit.{another name that has lived on it many incarnations}
Good Vibraions {very loud orange Camaro}

A little bfore my time there were some others around town
Unchained *** very fast Van Halen blasting GTO]
Emotional Rescue { a blown 68 Camaro}
Steppin out {some kid with a vette}
Racketyboom {on the hoodscoop of a local bracket raqcers Nova with a very loud smallblock}


I know I am forgetting a few.

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We all had to start somewhere.This is the first car I ever raced at the track.I painted the name on it the first day I drove it to school.I stopped to pick up a friend on the way to school and we decided we had to name it before anybody saw it.We stopped at the hardware store up the block from his house spent all the money in our pockets to buy a stencil kit,a black spray bomb and maybe some masking tape.With little though the name popped into one of our heads and has followed me ever since.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...owerslave1.jpg

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I remember your Gremlin when it was black, and had American Graffiti in script on the doors. I can remember alot of names from National and Hampton.

One More Time, 67 Camaro (Carl Juliano sr)
Brute Force Chevelle (John Bruzzo)
The Wizard
White Lightning (Neal Vaccaro)
Stone Crusher
Light n Lively
Short n Sweet (Charlie McAliff)
Fun City Hauler
The Weasel
Dinos Toy
Rat in a Cat (Ed Alessi sr)
Murphys Law (John Murphy)
Pops Toy
Little Blue Time Machine
The B&R Perf. '57 Chevy (when it was green) (Charlie Bellotti)
Underdog
The Jolly Onion
Brutus
DoubleTrouble (John Nobiles Vette)

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I still like my friends "Jon Boat" fishing boat name the best......

"Dirty Oar" say it a few times....:)

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Doukas and Malmberg @ Thunder Valley
Anguish
http://classracer.com/classforum/pic...pictureid=2781

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Hey Carl
From Westhamton Dragway
Gold Rush
Joint Venture[ Big joint painted on doors]
Mighty Mouse Ed Hass
Deadly Dread
Dust In The wind
Strickly Business
The Wild Cat
Sugar Bear
Wally World
Topless
Yellow Fever
Bounty Hunter
And the funnest of all Don't Believe The Pipe..

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Carl,the black was a one year only deal(1980).Too hot in the middle of the summer.Al
Conti's cousin did the paint.

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Mine in 1970 was FRIENDZ and it was a Z28. I won a national championship with it in an AHRA class called GT-3 (a pro clsass at the time). Bill Hilshire (Mr Bardahl), Ronnie Sox (Gold Fish), Kevin Rotty, Gary Kimble, etc.

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I always liked Donnie Quinn's white Monza......Plain Vanilla--no cherries, no berries!

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Southern New York Cars (from the early 70's)
Bill Casey's 57 Chevy E/G 'Super Pumpkin'
Willie Hormente's 69' Camaro E/MP 'Kandid Kamaro'
Alvin Hall 65' Mustang K/S 'Pickle Pricked Pony'
PC ('Don't Believe the Pipe', James, thats got to be the best!)

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For you older Southern guys ...

"RoHo" Ellis Milner "Super Stock '64 Dodge"
"Strange Stuff" Max Smith " Z-11 '63 Chevrolet
"The American" Fred Adkinson " '55 J/SA Chevrolet"
"Daddy Rabbit" Ken Simpson " Super Stock '67 Camaro"
"Kid Goat" Billy Jacobs " Altered wheelbase '66 Dodge Dart"
"Stumpy" John Locke " '68 Camaro Z-28 E/S Record Holder"
"Golden Rule" Billy Denby "'55 B/Gas Chevrolet, '69 Pro Stock Camaro"
"Purple Passion" Pete Mount "63 Lightweight Galaxie Super Stock"

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Thats cool James, I remember almost all of those cars....I remember Ed Haas had one called The Mouse Factory. And didnt Joint Venture become "Shot in the Dark?" a black Barracuda?
Also, I remember Fantastic Voyage.

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I raced last year at the new Irwindale 1/8th mile track in the Summit Series, and there was an orange 66 Nova there that shows up nearly every race. i was told that was the old Other Woman car from the 70's, and he drives it on the street. Probably not with the big block and the twin Dominators that I seem to remember.

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Northeast Racers,
'Flintstone Flyer'....... 65' AWB Dodge
'Vindicator' .......Drake Viscome's series of Funny Cars
'Bernella's Funny Honey'......Della Woods, Charger Funny Car
'The Mad Frenchman'........I/Gas 6-cylinder
PC

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The Late Great Jim Burg ,former National Record Holder who passed away 10 years ago this month had Cal Methods old Impala wagon. It was call "All Dollars and No Sense". Rest in Peace Jimmy!!!!!!!!

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Here's the "Golden Rule" Camaro. I was at this race in 1974 at the old Ringgold, Georgia track named "Drag City". This Camaro was running in modified class, don't remember who owned it but it was an old pro stocker. Steve Bagwell drove a "Strange Stuff" 63 Chevy also. I don't know if it was the same one Max Smith had. I've got a picture of "Kid Goat" too. Precious Memories!

Wayne.

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I haven't read all these many pages, so, this may have been answered, already, but forgive me if it has, please.

Somebody used to run a Stocker with the name "AFTER YOU" on the side of the car.

That sounded like the punch line to an interesting back-story, but I never heard the particulars...

Anybody remember that car? It raced for a long time......

It would be nice to know "After WHO?"

Then again, some things are better left unsaid, I guess... :)

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I saw an IHRA super stock Nova named "Since You" in the eighties. It really did some nice wheelies.

Wayne.

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That's the car. I had the name wrong...

Thanks!

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In the late '60's, early '70's, dad had a '57 Chevy bracket car that was named, "GOLDDIGGER". I only have one picture of the car, and would have loved to see it in action.

Mike Town, and later Mick Lafferty, use to own our Monte. They use to call the car "CHRISTINE" because it had a mind of its own. Fortunately, dad has tamed the car considerably, and the name has since been forgotten!

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Tri-City Dragway,Saginaw Mi. back in the mid 70's I had a 63 Chevy II D/A called "Dueces Wild" and then bought the "Get Down" A/SM Camaro from Doc Watson. Then there was the still famous 69 Hurst Scrambler"Nasty Nash" owned by Butch LaVictoire and my buddy Dale Mudd owned the 68 Camaro called "Clockwork Camaro" And then the boys from Saginaw had Thunder Rat,Sugar Rat and Justifiable Homicide to name a few.

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Don't forget the ladies;
"Drag-On-Lady"; Shirley Shahan
"Miss STP"; Paula Murphy
"Go Hummer II"; Mary Ann Foss
The best girl mechanic, Nancy Sinatra in 'Speedway' with Elvis.
PC

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http://woodfinautomotive.com/ironsides.html

this link is to my latest project, "Ironsides"

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Just a few from the '70s at Maple Grove , Arsenic, Ted Cass's killer plain white C/Gas Camaro with Ed Quay wrenching.......Red Baron B/A 69 Nova funny car ,Neil Hinkle {me wrenching} .....Tired Blood dragster, Walt Weeny..........The Moose, 37 Chevy Gasser.Reinford Bros. .......Grave Undertaking ,C/D Skip Schnieder {who was an undertaker!]......Mother Nature, 57 Chevy G/MP , Hildebrant &Siriani .......Pyle Driver, Phil Pyle's Giant wheelstanding F/MP Camaro........once my brain unlocks , I'll remember some more. .....Tom

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If not Cool, but Funny,
67' VW "Der Wiener Schnitzel'
Yep, painted like a Dacshound (Ran 18.99 in X/Stock:))
Never broke a bone!!

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My dad's race partner, Wallace Allen, had a '73 or '74 Capri (don't remember which year) running stock eliminator named "Little Brown Jug"

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Some of the names of a few of my old race cars= Dixieland Delight ,Tension, The Ajuster, Final Round, American Made, Old Flame, Bits and Peices, Elvira, Bobby Sue, C .O. D.( cash on delivery), K-Town connection, Bracket Wagon, Grocery Getter, Too Much Fun. Probably 10-15 more just can't think of them right now.

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Went to my local track a couple years back and was blessed to see 3 Chevelle's at the same event. Rat-itude, Rat a Tat Tat, and Rat-ical. All 3 were painted like a bag of Halloween candy, thought I was going to throw up!

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For all the Dover guys out there:
Bill Smrtic's Mopar SS'er - Storm King
The Breezee brothers orange Gasser - The Pie Wagon
Bill Seabrooks - superfan1
Bridgeport, CT

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my '56 Nomad/265 is called 'OLD DAYS'
partially 'cause they were better and i really like the song by Chicago which is all about the old days of being a kid in the '50's [which i was].
rod

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Who remembers the "Country Shindig" ?? It was a Ford Maverick from the 70's driven by a racer who has a son thats still races today on 2 wheels.

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Rickey Smith??????????????????????

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Good job! Tricky Ricky is correct. I use to watch him race at Lakeland International Raceway here in Tennessee.