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tks lads... The SS/I BENNETT & SIRIANNI Camaro was one tough customer in the north east.... love to hear any storys/info on those guys & that car.. I loved seeing them at san-air back then...ronnie & carl inspired me...

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The story as told to me. The car was a terror and it rarely lost a round. They had a mishap and barrel rolled it several times, major damage as you can imagine. They sold it as is to Ihor Fedun and he stripped off all the "good" stuff and scrapped the rest. That car had the trickest 10 bolt rear anybody ever saw. Those guys were pretty sharp.

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The 67 car was actually made into a 68 car, after a horsepower hit. Wanting to stay in "I", they changed the existing car over.
Those of you that know Camaros realize that it ain't as easy as it looks.

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Here's a pic:

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I believe that is the car that made me park my SS/I Roadrunner in favor of a SS/E 427 Chevelle. Lol

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Absolute killer car ! Remember it well. They were always the first car to the lanes when SS was called.

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Their cars were always awesome! The hardest working Super Stock team i had the pleasure knowing.

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One bad *** SS/I car..And Ronnie could wheel that 4 spd like no other. I had always heard that the dome light would come on when he swapped feet. Could be BS, I never saw it happen in person.

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I liked the wheels they ran at one time....Don't recall exactly what wheel it was but looked good. Maybe Motorwheel Flys....

Carl had 2 fast Stockers before the SS Camaro and Ronnie had his own car and they both won pretty regularly at Etown

Carl had an early Nova in M/S that I think he crashed and then a Camaro in G/S...Ronnie had a big car I think....maybe a '64 Impala...283 stick

Carl went 11.99 at York in the Camaro when the G/S record was in the 12's...and he was a flagship car out of T/K's.....

I don't know if the SS Camaro was built from that G/S car or not.

Ronnie was much lighter then Carl and I guess that's one of the reasons he ended up driving...

SS was not real healthy around then.....No breakout rules and just a handful of cars seemed to win......and car counts were low.

Many guys never moved from the old stock to SS in 1972.....It took some time and some rules changes to make it healthy again.......

Just my memories....and the bottom line is the Bennett and Sirianni car.....was a great car to see run back then.....

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I started racing super stock in 1974.
Carl & Ronnie were a class act and would
always lend a hand if you needed it.
They pretty much cleaned up at Englishtown
on a weekly basis.
For national events you had to win class in
order to race in the eliminator and I'm
not sure what year it was but along came
Don Bowles in a SS/I Mustang.
His car was wicked fast and pretty sure
he won class a lot.
Not sure what year Carl & Ronnie went
to the Super Mod Class.
That's 1 class that NHRA should've kept.
It was Jr. Pro/S so to speak.
I think 1 yr there were 25 C/SM at
Englishtown. Only the winner got into
Modified Eliminator.
Definitely a fun class to watch.

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I believe it all happened at carl's one car garage in ashbury park nj? and what a lineup of help...T/K, Hoffman, duffy's, trans end, I believe jack arnew did the front end, tony feil...bob's berserko lounge too.

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It was a unique time to be racing when they ran that car. I remember a Summernationals that there were lots of SS/I cars and when they got down to 3 cars for class I saw them crawl under their car in staging lanes and drain some oil out. I was a 20 year old then and that was the first time I saw that done. I am pretty sure in those years they weighed the cars without the driver, so Ron was a pretty light guy so he would be the obvious choice to drive .

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Happy to report that Carl and Ronnie are both doing well!

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Mark That's great news --- Those guys were ahead of their time. Ronnie was deadly in that thing I wonder if he still carries a brick around in his pocket :-D

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I think they should have kept the Super Mods. I had a C/SM one year. Was told, late in the seaon by a Modified Production racer that "The rest of us don't like those Super Modified cars, and should not be in Mofified Eliminator, and are glad you lost the points lead at this last race. We don't want to have one of those cheap cars going to the World Finals as our divion 4 champ points champ".
I lost the points lead by one round at the last race. First negative thing said to me about my car and class all year. Was not aware how the other guys felt.
Not going to name the guy. I had liked him. He wasn't very fast at the time. He got fast in latter years, won the points deal.

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great carl pic mark thankyou...wonder what year and where?

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The first year of C/SM at the Summer Nationals there were 125 cars in the class.

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A very fast SS/I Camaro! Those guys and Randy Smith (Same Combo) were the guys to beat in SS/I They did not have much luck against Bernie " The Bayonne Bomber" Agaman in the Eliminator though! Bernie was "The Man" in Division 1 Super Stock!

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Would have to be 1972, I'd say.
Track? Trying remember where we all went that year...Cayuga?

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don't believe its dragway park...

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Looks like Sanair.

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Dont think it is sanair.

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Is that right?
125 cars in C/SM?

Mike A114
P/SA

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NO..........25 is probably the most cars ever in C/SM at the Summers in the late 1970's.....

I was there .....and we raced C/SM.....