Ray Allen/Briggs Chevrolet SS454

[Rich Biebel]

I have a DVD that includes the Chevelle/B-J auction footage and then features some clips of the new owner racing it with the top down against his buddies. I watched itafter this thread got started and also wondered where the "undefeated" story came from. We went to Sanair that year and Ray was there with the Chevelle. It was the World Championship Series divisional race. I don't think they won that race either. During that race Tommy Callahan (Callahan &Sulc) crashed their Challenger convertible on sat. night and wound up winning Stock in their '62 Fury on Sunday if I remember right. One of a number of cars that crashed in that era and probably because of the 7" slick rule......way to small a tire for the power and speed we had back then....Cars routinely got squirrely at the top end on those tires with very low air pressure on narrow rims.......Frank Iaconio was driving that '62 Fury for a while....