Stock guys in magazines?
 

So the snow is finding it's way in, so now I'm settling in for reading season. I have huge stacks of Bracket racing USA, Car Craft, High Performance Pontiac, Hot Rod, and many more. I have found Lane Weber, Mark Yacavone, John Calvert, Wade Owens, Scott Burton, and Chuck Rayburn thus far, who else here has been featured in a magazine? Just for fun for me to dig up and read about, heck maybe I've even missed a few?

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I'm in the July 1999 issue of GM High-Tech Performance Magazine. Yup you saw that right. I had one of the first stock LS1 F-Bodies in the 12's. It ran 11.5's with a converter and tune up. Jim


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Cool! I'll see if I have that one, or heck, maybe I'll start collecting.

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Bob Don, Dan Dvorak, Don Kennedy

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Alan Peters, Frank Castros, Dave LeBrun, Jack Doughty, Jim Barber

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I had some mid-eleven second LS1 customers. Pretty good for a daily driven mid-20 MPG car that never had a valve cover off.

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Any idea what magazines they were in and when?

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When i got the car it came with 2.73 gears and I got 27 mpg on the road. Loved that car! Jim

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And they weren't that expensive.

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If you have some back issues of Super Stock and Drag Illustrated, there are a ton of class articles and some very good tech stuff. Also, the older Muscle Car Review has some stocker stuff in them, too. I have some doubles of SSDI I would give you, send me an addy and I'll mail them to you. Car Craft also was doing stocker articles in the late 80's and early 90's. Woodro's car was in there I recall.....

Wade

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Does Nostalgia Super Stock count? I'm not famous, but I was in Car Craft, June 1999. Page 100-101 in our '65 Dodge.

My brother and cousin were in Bracket Racing USA a few times - raced in the final of their Indy race two years in a row. Again, not in stock eliminator...sometime around 1996 ?

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Car Craft did some articles in the 80's about Bob Lambecks
73-74 Dusters running in Stock Eliminator.

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Interesting subject in this thread.
This winter if things are slow I'm going to dig out my 80's and 90's National Dragsters and look for some write ups on S/SS racers and scan them.

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My dad, Curtis Smith, was in a lot magazines over the years. He was in Super Stock Magazine a couple of times, and Hot Rod Magazine's "Drag Racing" along with some more. This year he was in Drag Illustrated and on Car Craft Magazine's website for being inducted into the North Carolina Drag Racing Hall of Fame. Dad was the first sportsman driver to be on the cover of the IHRA Drag Review Magazine also.

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I think Art was in Bracket racing years ago with his Omni

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I was in High Performance Pontiac a couple of years ago. It's on their website now.

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One of the magazines did an article on my Shadow It was called "Frugal Flyer"
Years ago (hemi challenger days) 1979-1981. I used to make beer money by betting fellow bar patrons. That I could go to a newsstand and show them an article on me. We were in all of them at one time or another.

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Artie, I think I saw you in Playgirl Magazine a few years ago. No? Jim



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Hahaha. I'll dig through the Car Craft pile, and Rick I found your info on the HPP website. Very cool. Wade, you have a PM, and a big THANKS to everyone who has replied!

Maybe my winter "project" will be a stocker media database...

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Alan Peters/Tony Mello SS&DI 3/85
Frank Castros/Frank Deleo SS&DI 4/86
Tony DeCarlo/Jim Barber/Jim Penta SS&DI 1/86
Jack Doughty SS&DI 3/83
Dave LeBrun SS&DI 7/84
Bob Don SS&DI 1/82
"Taking Stock" overview of Stock Eliminator SS&DI 7/82
"New England All-Stars" article on All Star Eliminator SS&DI 84 (not sure of month)

(There might be more. Give me some time to dig.)

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http://bluetoad.com/publication/?i=84243 Make sure this is the October 14, 2011 issue and then go to pages 48-50

Phil

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I remember Jimmy Defrank in either SS/DI or Popular Hot Rodding years ago. When he was fairly new to SS racing and had already won a World Championship. Was a good article.

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Phil, I bought a lot of Bracket Racing USA magazines off ebay, they had your address label on them. Small world!

Great article by the way! Good info!

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thats funny..I went to Speedweeks at Bonneville again this year, while I was there two things happened, Brad Zaskowski won Stock at the Sunday portion of the IHRA NITRO JAM at US 131 and the washing machine in my house BROKE and without anyone knowing it water went on to my part of my 45 plus year magazine collection in the basement.....I had to move 1500 of 4500 car magazines for lack of space.

It was an expensive trip to SPEEDWEEKS as while I was gone the better half bought not only and new washer and dryer, but some new furniture...

Phil

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I put the magazines on Craigslist and a nice guy from LaPorte, IN. bought them...it was a full pickup full including the cab.


Phil

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That's where they came from...I just bought some more from him too!