Cool race car names!

[RJ]

Originally Posted by Greg Reimer 7376

Wow.These are fun!! From Irwindale,Orange County, and Riverside from 1974-1988,I remember a red 65 GTO with a 427 and a tunnel ram of Paul Harris:Ponti-Rat, Pat Melendy's string of Plymouth Roadrunner bracket cars(he was the Bird Man),American Rikshaw from an earlier post, a yellow 69 Dodge-Poison Dart, a red Challenger called Live Bait, a whole lot of SBC 4 speed Camaros and Novas called Mighty Mouse,a rather rough 57 Chevy called Strictly Business, and in the early 80's,I had a 63 Chevy 409 called Rapid Transit. It was featured by Doug Marion in the March 84 Super Chevy, more recently I built a 68 Chevelle stocker that had a tendancy to corkscrew rather noticably as it pulled the left front wheel, I called it "Yank". I built another one and called it Yank II when I sold the first one to Tony Janes,after we upgraded the rear suspension, it tamed them down considerably, speaking of Tony, he and Marv Ripes had a 57 Chevy stocker called the Powerglide Prosecutor. He has a 4 door Chevelle today called the Powerglide Prosecutor II. We also have a red 68 Chevelle wagon O/SA car called "the Mule." It was originally supposed to be a test mule for various drive line combinations. Let's hear some more from those days in So Cal racing!!

Yeah Greg, I spent a lot of time at the County from 72 or so until it closed. i remember quite a few of those - and how about the Great White Knuckler 62 valiant, Lakacash 57 chevy, Cap'n Crunch 4 speed 56 chevy, Duster's Last Stand 71 duster gasser, Yankee Peddler 65 mustang, the Other Woman 66 nova, 2 Quarts a Day 62 plymouth stocker, Tin Indian pontiac, the Prehistoric Rat 409 el camino, Mr. Wedge 64plymouth ss/da - funniest thing about that one was what it said on the front fender - 426 cubic YARDS - LOL