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12-29-2012, 11:35 PM
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Re: Survivor Thunderbolts
 Hey...here's a photo...of legend...Gaspar (Gas) Rhonda...with Tom Caldara...(the longtime partner with Nate "Nazy Crate" Cohen)...two "boys" still lookin' pretty good 'eh...Gas @ 80...Tommy @ 68... and counting...love 'em both...  inquiring minds want to know...could it be the "air" quality on the west coast???!!! Drake
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12-30-2012, 11:31 AM
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Re: Survivor Thunderbolts
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12-30-2012, 03:37 PM
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Re: Survivor Thunderbolts
Hey Grape..."first" bumper in photo on car (maroon) was fiberglass...second bumper in photo was aluminum (orange) hence "seams"...the first 11 cars produced by Andy Hotten/Dearborn Steel Tubing for Ford Motor Company were maroon (and given to their "chosen" racers)...the rest were all white...Gas always had a trailer to carry...not sure why the "change" in bumper along with paint (although orange color with/lettering style was Russ Davis "colors" with Gas through the AFX Mustang & later series of funny cars as well...Drake...p.s....not sure if my "re-call" is correct...but Plaza Fiberglass (Ontario,Canada) made fiberglass components for FoMoCo T-Bolts,Falcon,AFX Mustang... very early stuff was kind of heavy...they did make some lighter stuff later on...also possibly "re-call" (memory?) that front of car was damaged in towing/trailer accident...not terrible "damage"...hence bumper replacement though ..."our"(originally was Bill Rick Ford/Centraila,Illinois-pictured elsewhere on this thread under our Carmel Ford banner in mid/late 70's "form")) T-Bolt (original white) had aluminum front bumper being like # in the seventies (production wise of 111 produced)...NHRA does "accept" both...at least...now 
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12-25-2015, 07:42 AM
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Re: Survivor Thunderbolts
I'm not a serious drag racer, but in the early 1970s, I spent a few educational afternoons in Nate Cohen's shop in Englishtown gathering knowledge about the care and feeding of Ford 427s. At the time, I owned one of the original 427 Cobras, and along with a Cobra owning buddy (sadly, long passed), we made a couple of pilgrimages there every summer to bone up on the latest tricks to squeeze a few more horses out of our side oilers.
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12-25-2015, 11:47 AM
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Re: Survivor Thunderbolts
This car is alive and well in Indy. The Joe Brown Ford car.
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