Stanton, Sept 14 &15

Frank/Rebop

Bristol, In ( by Elkhart) 

John, I agree I always watch,listen and learn, that's how I got to the position I am today in my carrer. Besides that I figure if I can aquire a 1/4 of the knowledge that some of you gentleman have, I'll do just fine. As for the certain individual from down under, he is DEFINATELY my elder, but the only thing I learn from him is foul language!

Oh and Frank, what are you talking about???????

I sent Bob $50.00 U.S. for best international or best finishing 55/56, I hope someone got it?

Rob

I love the smell of burning rubber in the morning!

hey frank having our walls upside down is why our roof's blow off so easy when its windy

moz. geelong victoria australia.

graduate 1980, bus, truck, car, hot rod, boat, submarine, hovercraft, hydrafoil, firetruck, mobile home, jet, helicopter, cruise ship, motorcycle, bicycle, santa's sleigh, clock, alloy bullbar, alloy fuel tank, lens, dr who's tardis, matter - anti matter warp drive buffer & y-block lover

p.s. i forgot sorry lon i was only joking nothing wrong with queenslanders brisbane has a ford factory just like geelongs

moz. geelong victoria australia.

graduate 1980, bus, truck, car, hot rod, boat, submarine, hovercraft, hydrafoil, firetruck, mobile home, jet, helicopter, cruise ship, motorcycle, bicycle, santa's sleigh, clock, alloy bullbar, alloy fuel tank, lens, dr who's tardis, matter - anti matter warp drive buffer & y-block lover

Most likely caused by the walls being upside down.

         Lon, Thanks for the $50 AU prize money. That's about $50 more than came from Canada!! How's the truck coming?

Frank/Rebop

Bristol, In ( by Elkhart) 

hey john i hope you mean lon & not the rest of us aussies haha

moz. geelong victoria australia.

graduate 1980, bus, truck, car, hot rod, boat, submarine, hovercraft, hydrafoil, firetruck, mobile home, jet, helicopter, cruise ship, motorcycle, bicycle, santa's sleigh, clock, alloy bullbar, alloy fuel tank, lens, dr who's tardis, matter - anti matter warp drive buffer & y-block lover

Paul:

Yes, the class winners were all torn down.  Ted's problem was that he always had to put it back together so he could DRIVE the car home.  I hadn't heard that about the super Larks, but it could be true.  A few years ago Mike Burns, another friend and once an NHRA tech inspector, tried several times to talk Ted into running a super Lark in Stock Elim just to drive the chevvy guys nuts.  So at least Mike knew about them.  Another story about Mike.  He raced Buicks in stock when I ran the Hurricane in stock.  He was always a tick off the national record, so wasn't very competitive in stock elim.  I could always seem to keep the Hurricane on or under the record.  One weekend someone set my record down a couple tenths, from 13.10 to 12.90, and I showed up the next weekend running on the new record.  Mike walked up, got right in my face, and said, "I'll bet if they set your record in the 11's you'd still run on it".  Strangely enough, the Hurricane has run in the 11s, but it's not legal stock now.

Frank, there's a 2 hour time difference between this site and Hoosierland.  It was 7:02, I usually am up at 6:00 or shortly thereafter.  I have not set an alarm clock in the 3+ years I have been retired.  I just like to get up now that I don't have to clock in anywhere.

Rob, keep your mind, ears, and eyes open, you will learn more.  But you may have to ignore the comments from that guy south of the equator.  He's off the wall sometimes.  He he.

John

John - "The Hoosier Hurricane"

Frank / John,

You know for a couple of "Retired Teenages" you guys aren't half bad!

I will fully admit that a YOUNG wippersnapper like myself can learn a lot from from you guys, so keep it up!

Rob

I love the smell of burning rubber in the morning!

John,

I remember seeing Ted's old Studebaker run at the Indy Nationals.  I think he got torn down, in fact weren't all National winners torn down in those days?  I read that the blown Larks weren't allowed to run when they were new because Studebaker didn't publish an advertised horsepower for them.  The NHRA couldn't divide the power to weight ratio to classify them.  I really loved that old heads up class racing.  It's good to see a guy in his 70's racing, I hope I have some more years to enjoy this into my 70's, which are fast approaching. 

Paul J. - '57 E Code

John, 502 am!??

     You're supposed to be retired!    

         I had heard that Jack Clifford had passed away, don't remember where I heard that, hope it's incorrect.

      Ted Harbit, re: John's post is a class act, nice people. He was inducted into the Hot Rod Hall of Fame at the H R Reunion held at National Trails earlier this Summer. I have posted some photos of those two cars in one or two of the articles I wrote for YBM. I am amazed at how little I knew about those cars and that company (Studebaker) until I moved into the South Bend area twenty odd years ago. Still don't know much. I can tell you this much, I'd like to see the kind of representation from our group at one of these races, that the Studebaker guys have. There were 15 or more 'Bakers at Stanton and one lone Y block. Two if you count Brian Steffina's '58 Merc. Marauder 430, 400 hp.

Frank/Rebop

Bristol, In ( by Elkhart)