Old photos of your current car.
 

Anyone want to post pictures of your current car in it's previous life? Here are a few of mine. The pic of the blue car is when Troy Humphrey owned it and the black one is when Jimmy Spell had it. My car has gotten around. NC, New York, Maine, and now Texas. Ed

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I remember both.
I live in Kinston ,NC and watched that car and many more compete in my "Youngin" days.
Remember a lot of the old cars as i used to mark the winshields in the tech dept at KDS.
You can go to kdsmotorsports.com and scroll to bottom of page and click on the pics gallery and see a lot of old cars that were raced there....
Man i'm getting old, thanks for the reminder...lol

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OK - I started at the beginning ..........................And I showed her best side ! !

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I believe Troys car was the one who beat me during SS/IA class at Gainesville back in 1978,,,,,,LOL. I kind of remember that paint job going by me.

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Jack is that for real?

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Yes , my '04 GTO (now "Chieftain X" ) had a date with an 18 wheeler and a guard rail before we became acquainted ................

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1969 - Old Enough?? When it was Grandma & Grandpa's car - That's Grandma in the photo, in front of my great grandmother's house in Gary, IN. I didn't come along for a couple more years.
http://www.meyerfamilyracing.us/Fami...lidesA%209.jpg
http://www.meyerfamilyracing.us/Fami...idesA%2012.jpg

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Gary , Indiana ? ? ? ? I don't think so ...........More like Pasadena, California maybe ! ! !

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That was'nt even the worst of it !

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No Jack, it's not red.

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Jack,

Did your wife have a parallel parking problem?

JimR

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The first photo is one of dad's (Curtis Smith's) old Stock Eliminator cars that he raced in the 1970s. This car was later sold to Jimmy Morton, with Jeff Taylor driving it the the NHRA world championship in 1981.

The second photo is of dad's "Hot Stuff" Camaro at Rockingham in the 1980s. Dad later won the IHRA Stock World Championship with this car in 1996. We still have and race this car.

The third photo is of grandpa's (Earl Smith) "Shakedown" 1969 Camaro with dad driving it at Englishtown, NJ at the NHRA national event in 1985. Dad won that event. We still have and race this car also.

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I remember when Jeff Taylor drove your dad's '69 ragtop - he did very well with it .

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My Wagon, back in the day. Photo courtesy of Ken Haase.

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Yeah, to this day, dad still regrets selling that 69' ragtop. It was one of his favorite cars

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Oh Yeah, it looked tough with the Super Tricks on it! :cool:

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Nah - And its a good thing too - I'da killed 'er .............

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The first photo of the white '69 Camaro was the car that our father Harvey Emmons Jr. purchased in 1983 from Jeff Taylor and our brother Speedy won his first national event in Stock eliminator at the '84 Cajun Nationals against Mike Cotten. In 1985 the car was destroyed in a garage fire along with our father's 1969 Nova that ran SS/JA. I am getting some of the photos together that I will post in the next couple of days showing before and after the fire. It was a loss that still bothers us to this day when we think about it.

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http://classracer.com/classforum/pic...pictureid=3545

This is the link to my car, if anyone knows it, it hasn't changed much since that picture. Took the lettering off and changed the wheels. The car in front to the right of my car is Rock Runnig's Pontiac. This is from 1974 Columbus, Ohio, National event. I think it was the Spring Nats at that time.

Casey Miles
248H Stock?

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Thanks! Dad said he would love to see the pictures. He talks about that car a lot and regrets selling it to this day

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Hey Casey

Are those the decals that where magnetic? That car was fast in the late 70’s. I’ll bet it still looks the same today.

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Here's a picture from the 70's. The driver must have been about 3 years old!

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Did Jeff Taylor get the car back after it had burnt up? Dad stopped by Mr. Jeff and Mr. Charlie's shop in Lumberton not too long after the fire happened at your garage and saw a burnt '69 Camaro and wondered if it was it. Dad started out racing with that car. It had a 4 speed in it.

Dad wanted to know if yall have ever purchased a car from Dick Henry? He had another 69 Convertible.

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Your dad is exactly right. My dad sent the car that was in the fire back to Jeff Taylor's shop to have the motor, transmission, and rear end removed, gone through, and installed in the '69 Camaro convertible he purchased "rolling" from Dick Henry for $5000 (the car was his wife's stocker) . We still have that car today. It sits in my dad's garage under a car cover and he won't even let us touch it! LOL. Your dad has a great memory!

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Yes, they were magnetic, I remember being at Englishtown and I think Moeller turned them all upside down just before 1st round .

Casey Miles
248H Stock?

PS. I just went to PBIR June 18th with the car and won no box, only car with a 4 speed in the eliminator.

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Wished I had known you were going to be there. Im about 1 hr and 45 min away from PBIR. Let me know the next time you are going to race there.

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I'm planning on being there the next 1/4 miles bracket race, some time in July I think.
I'll keep you posted on it.

Casey Miles
248H Stock?

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Haha, yeah he is full of information. I love to hear him talk about old times. He has some great stories.

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Probably not old enough?

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I remember that car when Jimmy Spell had it. I believe he used to haul it in a converted horse trailer. Used to have a license plate on it that said "We Bad"

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And you would be correct Scott.
Bob Rice

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Our 69 Roadrunner. Pictures are in wrong order, but they are at 1971 Nationals, 2007 Fall Nationals, and today (Yellow)..


Gary and Donna Hansen

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Here are a few of the photos I promised. I believe the 1st photo is INDY of 1984. The second two are obviously from the fire in 1985. It literally made us sick to look at them again.

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Oh man.. Emmons... that's HORRIBLE

I bought my car in September, 1993. Here's my BelAir in 1998. Just a street car, with a pretty radically cammed 409HP 409 ( was a factory 6 cylinder car )

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Jimmy, as I recall, took the drive train (Bobby Warren Horsepower) out of that car and put it in a blue late model Camaro. He could go real fast in qualifying by sliding the clutch a lot but couldn't cut a light. Rumor was that he changed the clutch setup for eliminations, slowed down and usually lost with a bad light. I never watched close enough to verify it but he was rarely seen in the later rounds.

Jimmy was unique and entertaining to talk to. I remember one year at Englishtown we ran the first round in the dark. I drew Joe Scott in round one. Jimmy told me I'd catch him in high gear and to pump the gas on him and lead him through the finish line. I've always been one to run my own race but in the end that's exactly what happened. I saw him at the scales after the run and he said "I told you that's what would happen. I knew it was you when I heard you pumping the gas."
Anyone know where he is now???

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Still racing the blue Camaro.
Bob Rice

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He is running all the IHRA div 9 pro-am races .
Will be at Dunn-Benson dragstrip this weekend swappin dem gears on that 283.

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He runs GT/K with a 283.

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We enjoyed looking at the pictures. Dad said that was so sad. I know he wishes that he still had it as much as yall do