Gliddens 65 Galaxie.
 

Hard to believe that this car has just vanished and no one knows where it is.

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I saw an old picture of it just the other day of whoever it was that Glidden sold it to racing it on a thread over on the H.A.M.B..

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Here's the photo from the HAMB

https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/...n-jpg.3786889/

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That looks like Frantic Fred Robinson car, from Tipton Indiana. He passed a few years back, but he has a son the may know some facts. Denny. Of course he races a Ford, I believe a Fairmount.

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Kenny, and maybe I getting confused in my life

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What is HAMB?

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Hokey Azz message board.......LOL .........

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I know I'm old but truly remember him running at Tri State with it years a go in stock. Rick.

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I posted that photo on the HAMB. Fred Robinson sold it to Bill Bruce in Indy. Bill sold it to someone up north and that's the last it was heard from.

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Old car site Chris check out below



https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/

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I ran Bob Glidden in 1969 U S National in B/S I think he ran 11.68.
He won class but was DQ head. I may have picture of run. If I can find it , I'll post it. Good times. There were 12 cars in class.
Larry Eagle

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Thank you

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He raced it a lot at bowling green back in the stone ages when I first started

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Just curious, did you race with the Flintstones ??

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Fred had a competitive 4 speed stocker( ran a rock crusher I
believe), Barney had a Pure Rocker, but when the BHRA disbanded,
(Bedrock Hot Rock Assn.) Barney had nowhere to race, so he went
wildlife racing, with an Impala I believe.

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Since women weren’t yet racing, what did Wilma and Betty do while the boys were at the strip ?

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Flirted with Jimmy & Dickie and cooked bronto burgers..

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Sometimes they would travel to Rockford and have their hair done at the Yabba Dabba Doo......

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Fred was in diapers when I got started

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It wasn't that Barney had no where to race, he was caught using Naturally Occurring Swamp gas (NOS). There was suspicion after he was seen with red bleary eyes and severely blistered feet. He was kicked out of the BHRA about 2 weeks before it was disbanded. Prior to that he was caught using some sort of timing device known as a Ptero box made by Pterodactyl innovations. Not sure how it worked but he got caught after running several dead on passes even though his opponents broke.

Jus' clearin' the air.....

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Maybe Gary filed a protest against him.

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Can’t believe I forgot to include John Livingstone in this thread......

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A car that beat Bob numerous time in 1973 is coming back to NHRA racing after a 35 plus year rest.Stay tuned for more updates.