Gary Ryan San Antonio.TX.

I think the 1st one is Doan Spencer.

Don't know any more than that, except I would love to have the 2nd one......................

its not how fast you go, its how you go fast.

I went right for the "War Bird". Love the stance. They are all great examples of TBirds. Chuck

Y's guys rule!
Looking for McCullouch VS57 brackets and parts. Also looking for 28 Chrysler series 72 parts. And early Hemi parts.

MoonShadow, 292 w/McCulloch, 28 Chrysler Roadster, 354 Hemi)
Manchester, New Hampshire

Three years ago I had a line on a damaged, no drive train '57 bird, and thought about doing a Gasser. I've got several of those pictures, but no info. I missed the deal, and then a 55 with a straight axle and a BBC showed up locally, and p me off so bad I did another project.

Kirk White, who just sold the "clone" that Spencer built of his 'bird, list these pictures and info. The Bonneville times are included.
http://www.kirkfwhite.com/1st.html

The original body, with the 302, and all the racing parts that Spencer did later is here:
http://auctionsamerica.com/events/feature-lots.cfm?SaleCode=BB13&ID=r472&Order=alphabetical&feature=&collection=&grouping=&category=Cars

If I remember right, the clone with the Y block went for $102K, but the original with the 302 went for $92K.

Vic? See that, Vic?

Mike Richards
south and east of Seattle

miker
55 bird, 32 cabrio F code
Kent, WA
Tucson, AZ

Thanks Miker, great info on the two Doane Spincer cars. I like the Y powered car the best. The other is to custom for my taste.

Gary Ryan San Antonio.TX.

The bottom picture shows Vic Micklich's blown 430 Lincoln powered Bird. He was service manager of the Kenz-Leslie Ford dealership in Denver. The car was featured in Dec '63 Hot Rod, and reprinted by Jerry Christenson in the May-June 2013 issue of Y Block Magazine.

John - "The Hoosier Hurricane"

Thanks John, Kenz-Leslie were big in land speed racing, and i was wondering what the conection was to the Bird.

Gary Ryan San Antonio.TX.

"427 B/SR" was owned by Joe Walden and prepared by Vern Houle. It was powered by a stock Mercury Marauder 427. It went over 200 mph at Bonneville in 1964 but didn't set a record.

Thanks Gekko, The picture looked like mid 1960's. I guess that was too soon to get in the 200 club.

Gary Ryan San Antonio.TX.

The Bonneville 200 MPH club was going strong by 1964 starting in 1953. The SR was the class of "Sports Racing" This was a class for sports cars that hade been modified; today it's modified sports. Back then there were highly modified "cars" which were said to hold 2 passengers but were closer to streamliners; infact this class did become gas streamliners. Nolan White and Ak Miller both set many records when it was SR near 300 MPH.

In the begining (1949) most all classes did not direct fuel so rarely was gasoline used by the fast cars. Gasoline was still in it's infancy when Karol Miller came and used for production style cars; Karols Fords were designated as Gas Coupes. When I started in 1975 Streamliners, Lakesters, Modified Roadsters, and Competition Coupes were fuel classes only.

To give you an idea the record in B/Modified Sports today is 252.9 mph.

56 Vic, B'Ville 200 MPH Club Member, So Cal.