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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hellion94" data-source="post: 506901" data-attributes="member: 8471">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.<img src="http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c188/grey90gt/scan0120.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />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. <img src="http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c188/grey90gt/Dons_Hot_Rod_Shop_1.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c188/grey90gt/donswillys02.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />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. <img src="http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c188/grey90gt/Maverick.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />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.</blockquote>