Anyone know, remeber or have any stats on this car ?

[Chris "drooze" Wertman]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Race-...item1c144ff5e6

I saw this and it piqued my interest, especially the record years....

Anyone know anything about it ?

Cheers

Chris

[Mike Carr]

I'm pretty sure it was Rusty Canfield's Charger from Div 1. Was always a very quick EF/SA and FF/SA (current NHRA DF/S). Last I know, a gentleman from NJ named Junior Cannonico (sp?) raced it in 2004.

[Ed Fernandez]

Originally Posted by Chris "drooze" Wertman

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Race-...item1c144ff5e6

I saw this and it piqued my interest, especially the record years....

Anyone know anything about it ?

Cheers

Chris

Droozie,if you're interested in the car I can give you a wealth if info on it by the former driver(Junior).BTW it is a body in white from 1984 and raced by Paul Rossi.A lot of one off things in for.For instance it was originally a Shelby that was changed into an Omni.
And there was a little matter of some weight under the windshield cowl.
A bunch of us at Englishtown in 2005 helped Junior to run .5 under for a class Wally.What put us over the top was removing the rear spoiler and removing a really restrictive aircleaner and jacking up the rear of the hood an inch or so.Junior has a lot of good info on the car.

[Chris "drooze" Wertman]

Originally Posted by Ed Fernandez

Droozie,if you're interested in the car I can give you a wealth if info on it by the former driver(Junior).BTW it is a body in white from 1984 and raced by Paul Rossi.A lot of one off things in for.For instance it was originally a Shelby that was changed into an Omni.
And there was a little matter of some weight under the windshield cowl.
A bunch of us at Englishtown in 2005 helped Junior to run .5 under for a class Wally.What put us over the top was removing the rear spoiler and removing a really restrictive aircleaner and jacking up the rear of the hood an inch or so.Junior has a lot of good info on the car.

Very cool....I like it....Ill drop you a PM.

[Dennis P Chapman]

It was Rusty Canfields car from PA he bought the car from Paul Rossi.

[greg fulk]

I ran this car 1st round @ the IHRA Div race @ Quaker-City in 2004. It ran almost the same E.T. as my Silver V/SA car.

[John Kelley]

Wasn't this car driven by Vic Hobb's when Paul Rossi owned it in California ? I think Paul ran his SS/FA Dodge and Vic drove this car......But my memory might be off...:-)

[art leong]

The car has a 2.2 liter N/A motor, Automatic
Rossi had a few of of them from Chrysler, Not all of them were Shelby cars.

[Ed Fernandez]

Originally Posted by art leong

The car has a 2.2 liter N/A motor, Automatic
Rossi had a few of of them from Chrysler, Not all of them were Shelby cars.

Artie,Junior told me there were 2 factory cars.This one went to Rossi.
He said this one started out as a Shelby.And it is carburated.

[Michael Beard]

Definitely Rusty's old car, which Junior later bought. I believe Rusty had told me that it was the first Shelby, which was the rotisserie show car used by Chrysler. Fans would always refute that, because it didn't have the Shelby stitched in the headrest, but as the first car, it didn't have that. A quick search on DRC shows that it typically ran 15.20's when Junior was racing it.

Pic from the 1998 Dutch Classic at Maple Grove


Rusty helped me a great deal when I was first getting started with my similar '85 Turismo. They're both 2.2L carbureted cars (2bbl Holley Weber), and they're a ton of fun to drive. Mine's come a LOOOOONG way, thanks to Billy Nees, from winning in its very first night on track, despite a best of a 20.45...


...to today, where it's run a 15.26 @ 88 mph, and won three bracket races. While mine's not a historical car like Rusty's, it too is for sale. Lots of potential, as it's still heavy for the class, and I haven't run go-fast oil in it yet. Tons of fun, just have too many toys already.



Questions: 1) If you're running it as a Shelby or 2.2, can you run it without the spoiler? 2) Anybody know where you can get the lower air dam? Seems to be made of unobtainium.