Anyone Know "Too Costly"

[jwsamuel]

My Dad died last month and I was going through some of his photos. I found this in a group of photos labeled only as "Seattle." I think it is from the late 1970s.

Does anyone know anything about this car or the owner? There is no connection other than it was at the motel he was at.



Thanks,

Jim

[Lyn Smith]

That is the nova that won I think the 72 Winternationals in SS.It would have been the first race with the new stocker rules of no older cars.I think the driver was Eddie Vasquez from Elko,Nv.

[jwsamuel]

Originally Posted by Lyn Smith

That is the nova that won I think the 72 Winternationals in SS.It would have been the first race with the new stocker rules of no older cars.I think the driver was Eddie Vasquez from Elko,Nv.

Thanks. It does say Elko, NV on the side of the car, so that makes sense.

Jim

[Mark Yacavone]

I had never seen a picture of that car..all painted up and professionally lettered.
I would guess that picture to be about 70-71.
You might have better luck with posts like this in the Nostalgia section.



http://sports.dir.groups.yahoo.com/g...ed=1&var=1&p=3

[Rat Patrol]

Eddie Vasquez won Super Stock Eliminator in the 67 Winternationals.


Sandbagging was rife - and he got favoured by a huge handicap which made his little Chevy 11 competitive.


Apparently he drove in from Nevada to race.


Seems no one wanted to tech the Chevy afterwards...due to the popularity of a Chev winning.....finally.

[larrylomascolo]

The Grump was cleaning up in 66 with the A/S chevy II ,when i saw the steel wheels ,the same on Grumps it had to be a pre70 era,same engine but this one ran SS,nice pic

[Jim Parsons]

Eddie brought this car over to Salt Lake’s Bonneville Dragstrip in the spring/summer of 1966. when I was also running my car in A/S. There were several of us in A/S including some Hemi Chargers and other Nova’s. Needless to say he cleaned all our clocks as we were just street cars with cutout or headers and recap slicks. He had already won the Winters Nationals as it was hand painted on the car much like the other lettering. I’m pretty sure he also flat towed it over from Elko. The story was he beat Jenkin’s Nova for class to get into the eliminator when the Grump pulled it out of first gear too soon on the leave.
Jim

[Gordie Kissner]

Was passing through Elko a few years back while on my job and walked into an office at an auto repair facility(Ed's Place),the wall was covered with s/ss memorabilia,trophys etc..had a chance to sit and chat with Eddie for a while that day,nice guy and fun conversation.

[Lyn Smith]

I was at a Nostalgia race last year and had a chance to talk to Ed Iskenderian. I asked him if he could still make a cam like Grumpy ran in his 66 Nova.He said "sure", and then started to tell the story of Mr. Vasquez bringing the 327 engine to Iskys dyno after the Winternationals win to see how much power it really made.He said "we put it on the dyno and started to do some pulls, and it promptly spit out one of its connecting rods".I recently contacted Mr.Vasquez thru a facebook site and asked his version of the story.His version went like this"we worked on the engine on Isky's dyno for several days after the Winternationals.Starting with 325 plus HP, and finally getting it near 450 hp.(Remember this was a 1967 SS motor) and on one of the final pulls it expired.We then had to thrash hard to put together another motor for a race we had the next weekend".A little different story, but same results.LOL Eddie told me he later sold the roller Nova to a guy in TX. and it was destroyed in a street accident.

[Travis Miller]

Another photo of the "Too Costly" Nova.

66 Chevy ll Winternats winner 1967.jpeg (223.9 KB)