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Old 01-17-2017, 12:06 PM   #1
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Were these the same car ?
Who was the real owner ?

don't know how sex got on here , I had better try & repost !
Try again.

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Old 01-17-2017, 12:20 PM   #2
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tom those images at least on my computer is bring me to a **** and *** web site
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Old 01-17-2017, 01:18 PM   #3
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Tom,

Funny you just posted these pic's. The first one was Bob Glidden's car that Brandon & Turnage bought and made it the Nitro 9 car. Then my uncle Jeff Velde bought it in '75. I grew up with that car. We lost track of it in the late 80's. Then low and behold, I was selling a car at Mecum Kissimmee last weekend and it was parked a couple row's over painted in the Ed Martin Ford livery. It sold for $87,000.

As far as the second car I don't know. But the third is Carl Holbrook's car. My uncle introduced me to him at the '79 or '80 Gatornationals and Carl had that car then while my uncle had the Nitro 9 car so they aren't the same car. All I know for now, great memories!!!



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Old 01-17-2017, 01:26 PM   #4
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Old 01-17-2017, 01:39 PM   #5
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Wow, great pic Tom, we have never seen that one!






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Old 01-17-2017, 03:06 PM   #6
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Our picture of Jeff Velde SS-f Mustang.
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A guy called me this morning and asked me what I knew about this Mustang.
He had been researching it, and said Jeff told him after he bought it a guy offered him BIG money for it. So he built a clone , painted it red ,etc.
That was the car sold at the auction this weekend NOT the original car , the guy who bought it from Jeff still has it.
That was what I was told.
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Old 01-17-2017, 03:45 PM   #7
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Tom,

Hate to tell you, but the car at the auction was my uncle's car. I knew every inch of that car and it was my uncle's car. My uncle sold the car to one of our mechanics back at our dealership in Illinois around '82. He raced the car for a couple years and sold to some bracket racers out of Tennessee and they raced it until the late '80's and we lost track. My uncle was building another one identical to the Nitro 9 car when he decided to sell both of them and go Comp racing with a Pinto that was also one of Glidden's cars. The second car is probably the car the guy still has. Hope that helps.




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Old 01-17-2017, 04:45 PM   #8
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For what ever reason, I can't access Class racer and post comments. He is right. The car that went to Mecum was Jeff Velde's car. My argument is that Velde's car was NOT Gliddens old car. Turnage told me he sold Gliddens old car to Steve Retton and then built another car that eventually became Jeff Velde's car. We raced against both cars when I was with Davis. Turnage ran the second car in SS/E for a short time and we had to run him ( The second car ) for class. The next weekend, we were running Steve Retton at PID with Gliddens old car... Give anyone my phone number and have them call me. 330-692-3785... I welcome any conversations on this issue...
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This is the story that I got from multiple and recent telephone conversations with Gene Turnage. Gene told me that Steve Retton from Fairmont, WV offered them a lot of money for the car he and Clyde Brandon were racing at the time. They sold the car to Retton. That car was Glidden's old car. They immediately built a second car with tubs and a ladder bar with slider suspention and painted it the same as the first Glidden car. Red and Nitro 9 on the side. That was the car that went to Velde. It was not Gliddens car according to Turnage. We were racing Turnage for class one weekend in the second car, then racing Retton at PID the next weekend in the first car. Turnage told me that he raced Retton for clas at Englishtown in 1974. Two red 68 Mustangs with Nitro 9 on the side. Turnage beat Retton and Retton got pissed and said, " If I knew you were going to build another one, I wouldn't have bought the first one ". This is all from a recent phone conversation with Gene Turnage...

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Old 01-17-2017, 05:12 PM   #10
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This is Gliddens old car after going to Retton. This shot was at PID...
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