Billy Nees: car you asked about

[Michael Beard]

Chip Johnson posted a pic on Facebook of his dad's car that you asked about the other week.

[Billy Nees]

Aah, the innocent days of Stock Eliminator... Back when it was still fun.
I wonder if Bob Shaw had one!

[Randall Klein]

Curious, what is it?

[Mark Yacavone]

Originally Posted by Randall Klein

Curious, what is it?

It's an Opel..about a '69

Where the 8" converters came from ,originally

[Bob Don]

Originally Posted by Mark Yacavone

It's an Opel..about a '69

Opel Kadett wagon

[vic guilmino]

i service them at the Buick dealer
the owens son would go for a ride with me
i hammer the gears

[Dennis P Chapman]

Originally Posted by vic guilmino

i service them at the Buick dealer
the owens son would go for a ride with me
i hammer the gears

Vic you worked at a buick dealer never would have guest that one lol

[rlytch]

I remember that car when I was a kid...Art Johnson (Chips dad) and that looks like Cumberland Dragway in Fayetteville N.C. It was a cool little car.

[THE LEGEND]

Reggie it was a cool little car.

This was a 1968 model. My mom and dad bought it new. We road to school in this car a year or too until mom got tired of the decals. LOL
Dad finally bought a trailer early 70's after driving home from Bristol to Greensboro, NC with only 2 gears.
He did win a IHRA race with it in 71 I think and R/U at Warner Robbins national open in the mid 70's. He mainly ran the small local tracks of NC and SC with it, back when stock was run on a weekly basis. He sold the car once but bought it back 2 years later. Finally the gurus at NHRA factored it out of business moving from Z/S to T/S and Dad went bracket racing.
Hav'nt seen the car since 78 last I heard in the mid 80's it was in South Carolina beside a barn. Would love to have it back.
Chip Johnson

[Alex Denysenko]

Originally Posted by Mark Yacavone

It's an Opel..about a '69

Where the 8" converters came from ,originally

Yes the were actually very good runners and kinda zippy with a stick, the most famous one was Jack Ditmars "der mini brute" from Chicago see below

http://search.aol.com/aol/image?q=ja...yword_rollover


in the late 70's I bought a fixer upper opel GT which I had intensions of installing my Mustang drive train in and running Comp. Maybe I shouldda? but then there would have never been a USCN. But it was too late, by then the class hook was set way too deep in me and I was already on to SS. I just used it as a daily driver and work car eventually selling it for a tidy profit I bought it as a trade in from the dealership I worked at then with a slipping clutch.