The Factory Experimental Cars

[Mr belvedere]

Hey Charlie can you dig up any more comet pics? A lot of the one's I have are to big for this format .

[HEAD CASE]

Originally Posted by Mr belvedere

Thanks Head Case ,oh and by the way welcome aboard

Thanks mr b you seem to sure know your vintage race cars well, gotta go back to work ,now if I could only find where I put that 7/32 socket dammit!!

[Charlie A]

Originally Posted by Mr belvedere

Hey Charlie can you dig up any more comet pics? A lot of the one's I have are to big for this format .

Here's a cure:

http://www.cometcentral.com/forum/vi...php?f=1&t=4229

[Charlie A]

Before the Chi-Town Hustler....this was the king of burnouts!



Notice who's in the background.
Bet this was one heck of a show!

[Mr belvedere]

Thank you

[Charlie A]

While we are talking Comets, no way I'm going to leave out one of the best from days gone by.....who spent most of his life here on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

The late Paul Vanderly:

[Steve1118]

Originally Posted by troublemaker427

No, I don't think so. The hardtop went from S&M to Buckeye & Vernon and that was it. I don't recognize this car.

Jody is right. This car raced at old Keystone Raceway, Pittsburgh Raceway Park; and it WAS NOT the S&M Paper Tiger; or Buckeye & Vernon. This was a home brew from the Pittsburgh area....I remember it well.

It was always my understanding that the "Paper Tiger" was destroyed in a crash sometime in the late sixties.

[Steve Stasko]

Originally Posted by Steve1118

Jody is right. This car raced at old Keystone Raceway, Pittsburgh Raceway Park; and it WAS NOT the S&M Paper Tiger; or Buckeye & Vernon. This was a home brew from the Pittsburgh area....I remember it well.

It was always my understanding that the "Paper Tiger" was destroyed in a crash sometime in the late sixties.

This car was not from the Pittsburgh area, and wasn't a typical "home brew." This is/was the former Dave Koffel/Maloney Motors car. Richard Duecker (Chippewa Lake, Ohio) bought it and ran it for a number of years.

This car was destroyed in a starting line accident at Quaker City in the early 80's. Whoever owned the car at the time lost it in the burnout box and rear ended the former Hine Motors "Chargin Hemi" '69 Charger, which was then owned by Ben Bertok. It's my understanding that the Charger was repaired and put back on the street. The Belvedere on the other hand was quite fragile at this point and pretty much folded up on impact.

[Steve1118]

Steve, the car ran quite often at old Keystone Raceway, and several times at PID I saw it. It may well have been owned by Koffel, but I know that Deuker had made several modifications to it. He told me that he had built the car.

I was not aware of it's accident at Quaker.....but it doesn't surprise me. The car scared me to death.

[Mr belvedere]

I just heard that Dick Smith who drove the Firebrewed 65 dodge has died