Lower Class Winner At National Event

[Tony Janes]

1980 Gatornationals was George Williams defeating Ray Cook. Williams went 16.38 to a red lighting Ray Cook,11.29 and 119.84

[art leong]

Originally Posted by Tony Janes

1980 Gatornationals was George Williams defeating Ray Cook. Williams went 16.38 to a red lighting Ray Cook,11.29 and 119.84

This is burned in my mind. It looked like George stumbled a bit off the line. I thought we had it in the bag.
"So Much For Thought"

[Mark Yacavone]

Originally Posted by Tony Janes

1980 Gatornationals was George Williams defeating Ray Cook. Williams went 16.38 to a red lighting Ray Cook,11.29 and 119.84

Okay. How about Bob Shaw's Corvair, '75 Sportsnationals? What were his ETs?

[Floyd Staggs]

'73 and '74 Jerry McClanahan 2 national championships with a P/SA.

[Dave Gantz]

Mike Smith won the '81 Summer Nationals and the '84 Southern Nationals with his '65 Belvedere 273 wagon. It was formerly Dick Moreland's, and is now Clayton Wright's.
It was also good for lunch runs, cuz of all those seats!

[larry dowty]

art leong what year and class was cal q. car i cant come close to speeling his last name you guys raced 3 times before nhra said you lost or cal won damn near cost you the grace cup ?

[Rory McNeil]

Larry, I believe that was the 79 Fallnationals at Seattle. Cal Queaphama was driving a white 61 Impala 4 door hardtop, in, I beleive, V/SA. I think Cals car was running mid 15`s at that time.

[Mike Schwartz]

How about IHRA? Has Tom Gould won anything with his Corvair? And there was a FWD driver from Virginia(?) who had a good run a few years ago. I'm drawing a blank right now.

[THE LEGEND]

The FWD car was Tim Griffith. H e finished 2nd in the world that year but he also drove a mopar wagaon U/SA car at some of the 1/4 mile races.
He also helped me win the div 9 championship in2003 by loaning me his h/ps mustang to get record points.
Very good racer and all round good guy
Chip Johnson

[Phil "Swampy" Marsh]

This IS "Swampy". Sorry this took so long to post but I didn't know this site existed until a few days ago when I was researching articles about me and my car, "Swampy's Toy". It was a 1971 Chevy Vega Hatchback. I painted it like Sox & Martin's car with the exception of a blue stripe with various size stars in it. The name "Swampy's Toy" was a play on my last name and Gumpy Bill Jenkin's car "Grumpy's Toy".
I lost my class race at my first national event at Englishtown, N.J., in 1972 but then won my class at the next 3 national meets at the 1972 Indy Nationals, the 1973 Summernationals at Englishtown and the 1973 Indy Nationals. At the two Indy meets George Williams and I did not race each other and he was eliminated by other racers in our class. However, at the 1973 Summers we did race in the final for Y/Stock. I beat him by 2 hundredths (.02 ) of a second! It was the closest race they had all night! I set the record that year at the points meet at Atco Dragway in New Jersey and then proceeded the next night to win Stock Eliminator! I was beaten for class win at Indy in the final by some one racing a Corvair (his second one in two years ) BUT upon weight check after the race he came up short on weight (!) and I was awarded the win! (The previous year he was in a different class with a Corvair and failed tear down tech when one of the two carbs on the Corvair engine had the wrong ID tag on it!). I sold the car and delivered it to the new owner from Minnesota (?) at that Indy Nationals and went home with an empty trailer. I did not race any more after that as family responsibilities took my time up. I hope this clears up any confusion about "Swampy's Toy" and me. You can see a photo of the car on my profile page here on Class Racer. Thanks for your time, "Swampy"