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The 62 Corvette that Ryan & John Ondrejko currently campain was Vince Barletta's A/MP "Plastic Rat"
Partner & I had a G/Gas 68 Camaro call "Lil Streaker"
My "70'" Chevelle SS was "The Wild Armenian"
G

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Division 1 pro stock campaigner in the 70's Larry Sengstack had 2 cars a 1970 Maverick with a 427 SOHC called Jersey Rattler. He also had Bob Glidden's 1970 Mustang prostocker called American Flyer.

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Pat Hennebery's 68 Camaro in the 70's Div 1 when he ran the 6 in H/MP

"Six Fiend"

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Also Jimi Vignogna's 62 Dart wagon Stocker still with the same name it had in the sixties

"Behemoth"

I am playing around with naming my 68 Impala Stocker "Bowtie Behemoth" Jimi and I are friends and he supports the idea!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_SyTvAYeGU


Will Lamprecht H I/S 68 Impala

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"Passionate Poncho" was a 57 Pontiac raced by Jack Thropp. I think it was a 347 with Rochester injection.

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For all the music fans out there there was a AA/FC called Forever young (Dylan?) Also, a long time ago...early 70's a 55? Chev wagon called Magic Bus ala The Who.

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I am one of those old timers that had the name Psych-Out on my 69 big block Nova when I first started racing back at Detroit Dragway in the 70's. I picked the name partly to denote the psychological, or the mental attribute of racing, and partly because it was a catchy name. After being absence from racing for many years, I just carried over the name to the new car I built about 4 years ago, a 68 Camaro. About everyone had names on their cars back then, don't know why people got away from it. Spectators would not likely remember the name of racers so much, but would remember your car name and root for their favorite.

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On the trunk of our 68 camaro I had "IF" on it, from the kiplining poem

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Wicked Wanda-Blake Wiggins/ Dog gone Wagon-Steve McCreary/ Chevy Banker-Roanoke area racers/ High Plains Drifter-Hot Rod Feature/ Banzai-Chris Seate/ Mike Graham/ Mighty Mouse-Bob Stanley/ Killer Deuce- William Smith/ Too Much Fun- Mike Limer/ Page Seate/Party Time-Harold Denton/ Jim Ruth ... Charlie Brown of course/ Va. Hillbilly-Lones Combs/ Silly Bear-Dickie Ogles/ and my dads favorite The Asphalt Gambler-Robert Bowman-Ricky James.....almost forgot James Stoneman as Mighty Mouse as well.....Racers should name their cars..kind of exclusive to our deal.

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Wow.These are fun!! From Irwindale,Orange County, and Riverside from 1974-1988,I remember a red 65 GTO with a 427 and a tunnel ram of Paul Harris:Ponti-Rat, Pat Melendy's string of Plymouth Roadrunner bracket cars(he was the Bird Man),American Rikshaw from an earlier post, a yellow 69 Dodge-Poison Dart, a red Challenger called Live Bait, a whole lot of SBC 4 speed Camaros and Novas called Mighty Mouse,a rather rough 57 Chevy called Strictly Business, and in the early 80's,I had a 63 Chevy 409 called Rapid Transit. It was featured by Doug Marion in the March 84 Super Chevy, more recently I built a 68 Chevelle stocker that had a tendancy to corkscrew rather noticably as it pulled the left front wheel, I called it "Yank". I built another one and called it Yank II when I sold the first one to Tony Janes,after we upgraded the rear suspension, it tamed them down considerably, speaking of Tony, he and Marv Ripes had a 57 Chevy stocker called the Powerglide Prosecutor. He has a 4 door Chevelle today called the Powerglide Prosecutor II. We also have a red 68 Chevelle wagon O/SA car called "the Mule." It was originally supposed to be a test mule for various drive line combinations. Let's hear some more from those days in So Cal racing!!

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I've always been partial to Gene Bichlmeiers "Bick's Beater"
that he has on all of his super stockers.

The HAMB has a great thread going with this very same theme...

check it out...

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/s...ighlight=names

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More Riverside cars.

Dave Mosley, 65 Plymounth, "Mr. Quick"

Vallance & Moore 67 Vette, "Grannys Outpost Outlaw"

Artie Suiter, Top Fuel, "Shizamme" (sic)

Larry Hice, 65 Plymouth, "The Stripper"

Bob Porter, 68 Plymouth, "Porters Pride"

Charlie Betts, 69 Camaro, "Cheaten Charlie"

Charlie Frazier, 64 Plymouth, "Nasty Rumor"

Bob Marshall, 65 Plymouth, "Dodge Material"

Larry Smith, (brother of Eddie B), 70 Cuda, "The Mountineer"

Donald Stepp, 64 Dodge, "Guyandotte Gorillia"

Pete Peterson, 65 Dodge, "Pete & Repete"

Also, Sneaky Snake, The Frog,

More to come :rolleyes:

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Billy Izykowski's 66 Biscayne Kicks

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Yeah Greg, I spent a lot of time at the County from 72 or so until it closed. i remember quite a few of those - and how about the Great White Knuckler 62 valiant, Lakacash 57 chevy, Cap'n Crunch 4 speed 56 chevy, Duster's Last Stand 71 duster gasser, Yankee Peddler 65 mustang, the Other Woman 66 nova, 2 Quarts a Day 62 plymouth stocker, Tin Indian pontiac, the Prehistoric Rat 409 el camino, Mr. Wedge 64plymouth ss/da - funniest thing about that one was what it said on the front fender - 426 cubic YARDS - LOL

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Later version of Bill's Chevy.

http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/g.../izykowski.jpg

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Bracket racing legend, Johnny Labbous named all of his cars "Loose Caboose". Here's a pic of his SS/CA Plymouth from the late seventies. I traveled with him to many races. He won at Bristol two years in a row with this car. 1978 & 79. His car wouldn't run the index in super stock so he bracket raced it in IHRA's quick 32 class called Pro Street.

Wayne.

http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/k...3/LABBOUS3.jpg

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John Armenhoff huge early sixties dodge wagon, painted blue with a huge white whale painted down the side, lettered Moby Dodge...
Wish I had a picture...
And we have been discussing a name for our crate motor Firebird, somehow Super Chicken keeps coming up, and my 14 month old granddaughter seems to approve...

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In the early 70's, the guy that got me hooked on Drag Racing had a 68 Camaro,BB, 4-speed car called "Flaming Star".

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I remember these!! These cars ran at both Irwindale and Oreange County then,some were still around at Riverside. This is a great look at some fine moments from the past!!

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I remember these!! These cars ran at both Irwindale and Orange County then,some were still around at Riverside. This is a great look at some fine moments from the past!!How about a beautiful Chevelle called Indian Summer,as well as Art and Jan Petersen's Indian Uprising?

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A few I either knew the owners and drivers of, or worked on:

Billy Hobbs' 62 Chevy II "Novacaine"
Billy Hobbs' 77 Hal Canode dragster "Short Circuit"
Wayne Basham's 68 Camaro "Rambunctious"
Alan Oakley's father owned a lumber company, so there were several cars in his stable named "Sawdust".
Jr. Crawford's 27 roadster "The Other Woman"

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Our 1969 GTO use to be called Indian Uprising

Jan

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I raced a Z/S Vega call "Hostage" from 73-83.

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Tod, I'll see if I can find a picture of Moby Dodge.

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Well my parents has had some, and i think 2 of the 3 will always be orginals.
Black Magic, 58 Pontiac D/SA
Go Hummer I & II 65 & 68 Dodges
and the one that has been around since 1967 "Scratcher" B/SR Roadster's, E/MP & SS/EA Nova's, both Corvettes and now both Monza's and dragsters.

http://www.nitrojoes.com/hummer1.jpg
http://www.nitrojoes.com/NOVACARSHOW1.jpg
http://www.nitrojoes.com/Scrat1.jpg

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some div one cars:

Distinction
Rapid Rat
Abracadabra
Sweet Dreams
Flying Low
Time Bandit
Bracket Buster
Lil General
The Alaskan
Family Affair

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Two of my favorites:
MIASIS DRAGON, corvette I saw at Bristol 1967
P.F. FLYER, 33 Plymouth from Munith Michigan raced in the 60's

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[QUOTE=Nitro Joe Jackson;107088]Well my parents has had some, and i think 2 of the 3 will always be orginals.
Black Magic, 58 Pontiac D/SA
Go Hummer I & II 65 & 68 Dodges
and the one that has been around since 1967 "Scratcher" B/SR Roadster's, E/MP & SS/EA Nova's, both Corvettes and now both Monza's and dragsters.

Hey Joe, I was looking thru your pictures, did not one of the Monzas formerly belong to Bob Zook?

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Some of my old cars names= DIXIELAND DELIGHT ,BRACKET WAGON ,BOBBYSUE ,ELVIRA ,AMERICAN MADE ,K-TOWN CONNECTION, FINAL ROUND, SO FINE, C.O.D.(CASH ON DELIVERY), THE AJUSTER. ,OLD FLAME . I know there are some more ,just can't think of them right now.

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yes, it was Bob's record holding C/G car

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A Dragstrip near Topeka, Ks. mid 60's, two cars from KCMO called "Bad Bascom" and "Boss Tweed". Early 60's Muncie Dragway, "Hogan's Goat".

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Hey Bob, that "Bankruptcy" name? Is that one picture from Indianapolis Raceway Park in the 70's? I remember a greenish Camaro that had that or a variation of that name in the 70's. May be the same car, maybe not.

Car names were always cool. I remember a 62-63 D/G Nova, local car named "Poppin Fresh".

Another one I recall, a case where the owner of the car made the name. It was a homebrew AA/GS owned by Ed Allen, I think that was his last name, forgive me, I'm going back 35-36 or so years, had "BIG ED" painted on the side. Big Ed was a character. He worked on that car out of a little one car garage, I'll use that term loosely, attached to his house. First time I met him, he shook my hand and then yelled out "Mommy, cook these boys up some of that fresh sausage and feed'em a sandwich, they look hungry"! Ed was to put it kindly, a big guy. The car would be a deathtrap by todays standards. A crude frame with a blown 392 Hemi bolted to it.



Robert Swartz

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1966 Biscayne called "the Untouchable"

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Another Biscayne 007

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A few more from division one back in the days ; the alias smith and jones c/mp hemi road runner ; the ticket collector b/s biskayne of henry dizlak ; the live wire stocker of joe puskas in the early 80s;the d/mp camaro the jersey twister of boyles and margoles;the alive and kikin h/mp nova i ran in the early 70s

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A few from southern Ontario (Canada)

My 61 chev SS Born Bad
My 64 fairlane H/SA Born Blue
Wm, Kydd A/A Wills' Fargo
Scott Wilson A/FD Time Machine
Rankin Ford B/FX Wild Child
Don Havers B/FX Mr. 289
61 Biscayne Niagara Mongoose
Chris Karamagenias? The Greek

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One of the best:

http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p...enbitter-1.jpg

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Baltimore-based Ken and Wayne Ewing campaigned this '62 409 Impala named "Mr. Intensified" until their younger brother 14-year old Gary joined the team as driver. Gary quickly demonstrated his value to the team by setting the A/Stock record at Capitol Raceway when he was just 15!! The engine was built by Racing Parts and Machine in Baltimore, and the fender well headers were fabricated by Herb Gebler. Major tuning decisions were made by oldest brother Ken.

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The Ewing Brothers replaced their '62 Impala "Mr. Intensified" with a '69 Z28 Camaro named "The Little Zipper." The car has undergone many changes and improvements since September 1968 when Ken Ewing placed his order for this Z28 at Anderson Chevrolet in Baltimore. Nowadays the Ewing Brothers continue to race the latest version of the "The Little Zipper" though they discontinued use of the name long ago.

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clockwork orange at eddeville, i think it belonged to bill morse now of texas. also the james gang, gang green, white lightning, mighty mouse 48 ford pickup with chevy smallblock driven by andy decker, mister mouse anglia driven by now aa funny car guy jack wyatt, jumping jack flash 65 chevelle of goff and nash,68 chevelle youngblood driven by kenny young of st. joe mo. corky fortunes wheels of fortune, earl earls c/sm camaro show me shaker, later owned by tommy johnson sr.plow boy camaro, wasted days and wasted nights 67 nova, all running class at eddeyville.