This is pretty Bad Ass

[Hellion94]

My dad found this picture in a nostalgia picture thread on some random forum. Its from around 1963-1965 and it's him in his A/Gas '41 Willys. The car at this time had a GMC supercharged 426 Chrysler Wedge motor and ran around high 9's with a B&M Hydro trans.

Interesting little tidbit, In this picture the car is labeled as being entered in B/Gas. My dad said that when they would go to a race, if Big John Mazmanian, or Stone Woods and Cook, or any of those guys would show up, that they would unscrew the ends of the large pipe that's acting as a rear bumper on the car and fill it with lead weights and enter B/Gas, and usually do pretty well. The car apparently held the Arizona record for A/Gas style cars for a while there too.

Pretty cool.


Here are some more pictures of the old man in the Willy's and the MAverick that he used to drive for Don's Hot Rod Shop.

This is the MAverick that he drove in the early 70's. This car ran mid 9's with the 426 Wedge out of the Willy's and eventually had a Ford Cammer in it. Pretty crazy stuff.

Just for some perspective - in the 60's and early 70's there wasn't such a thing as "race" gas. So basically these cars ran mid to high 9's with superchargers taken off of GMC diesel trucks, with mechanical fuel injection and pump gas. Bad Ass.

 

[duh09]

Thats badass.

I wish I could find some pics of my grandfathers. He was a big car guy, unfortunatly he passed away before I was born. My mom says a love for cars must be genetic haha. He wasn't a racer, just a cruiser, but he did sponsor stock cars at Huntsville Speedway back when it was a stopping place for practice with Nascar drivers...

I wish I was alive back then. Those were the car days.

 

[Win]

Danm that is pretty damn cool.

 

[Matt94GT]

thats wicked

 

[eliyarbrough]

That is really bad ass! That was a very cool find!

 

[GaryG]

those r sweet

 

[2slo95fiveoh]

ah the good ol days... i'm pretty sure im adopted because my dad, nor his father have any interest in cars, or had any decent cars
when they were growing up.. If only i could go back in time and tell my grandpa to buy me a 32 ford 3 window coupe, and store it somewhere for
me.. damn time machine non-existence. :angry7:

 

[blackpony]

that kool!!

 

[MustangChris]

nice! :-D

 

[TxCobrA98]

man, that is really interesting. very cool pictures. that is pretty dang impressive they were running 9's with what you said. thanks for sharing!

 

[GearGambler]

awesome! wheels up!!!!

 

[Hellion94]

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man, that is really interesting. very cool pictures. that is pretty dang impressive they were running 9's with what you said. thanks for sharing!

Yeah that's what I thought. I never really put it together that they didn't have race gas back then. I guess just because I knew that they had nitromethane to power the Top Fuel cars, that I thought they had some race gas formula, but I guess not. Apparently, back then the Top Fuel cars only ran something like 10% Nitro also.

 

[EastBayStang98]

did they have wheelie bars back then? just curious

 

[duh09]

yea, you can see them in the pics

 

[94darkhorse]

Willy's are badass!

 

[JB471988]

Awesome stuff. I especially like the maverick...bad ass.

And duh09, I agree, love for cars must be genetic. My dad and my grandpa both are car guys also. Hearing the stories about the mustangs, torinos, t-birds, etc that they used to have makes me wish i had been alive back in the day. :icon_rr:

 

[2REDSTANGS]

when did people start supercharging?

 

[Hellion94]

when did people start supercharging?

In the automotive world, GMC pioneered that technology in the 40's. Hot rodders at the time would then just fabricate plates that would adapt the GMC diesel superchargers to their cars.

 

[Willis_98GT]

thats cool man.

 

[Dalamar]

sweet pictures Craig. Nastalga for sure!
My dad's first car when he got married was a Maveric.

I hear stories of my mom doing burn out's down their street.
I can't quite picture it, but hey, the 70's was way cooler for cars and driving in general.