Mopars Little A Body Terrors...

[Jim Wahl]

Originally Posted by dannyboy

Ed's Car and Our '74 Dusters

Boy! Do those pictures take me back! I worked with Ed H. for many years. I had Phil Strudwick's E/SA Duster Stocker for a while also. Jim


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[Hemi Moose]

Originally Posted by Mack Reeves

Got several..... This one at Jackson SC at Bracket Finals in 2001 or 2002... Photo from Michael Beard who was shooting for IHRA at the time...

Nice, and lets see some more old shots of your Duster.

[Hemi Moose]

Originally Posted by dannyboy

We raced for and with Ed (Bachelder Bros. & Chipman)with our Duster/Demon, originally had a '74 Duster that started in SS/L that was a sister car (SS/LA)to the one Ed drove owned by Carlos Lawernce and sold to the Kaiser Bros. when we built a '71 Duster for SS/I ( Herb McCandless did the roll cage and suspension with Ed's motor and great parts that he developed) to beat the Camaros, which we did until Don Bowles showed up at Indy that year with a 351 Cleveland Ford with help from Jack Roush. That car was changed to a Demon to run SS/K and then SS/KA. Car still in Maine and has been restored.

Larry Stewart( did all Paint and Body work on our cars) and I went down to visit Ed at SLP while we were in Englishtown this year, he is President and very involved in the running of it, working 4 1/2 days a week, either in Toms River or Detroit.
Pictures to follow once I get them resized.

Dannyboy good story...just curious on how many A-Bodies were run under the Hamburger colors back then...anyone else here know .

[Myron Piatek]

Steve Strieter on the west coast owns one of Hamburgers SS cars. He's known as "topside" on moparts and here is his website showing the car in it's current form.

http://topside.info/

I use to buy Hamburger's stuff in the '70's and possibly into the '80's. Still have a few catalogs and the small "For 340's & 360's decals". He seemed to be the best source for Mopar small block stuff back then.

I had a Challenger back then and ran one in brackets till 1998. But A-body Mopars are "efficient" race cars and I got my current one for IHRA Stock in '99.

[Myron Piatek]

Originally Posted by Tom keedle

hey, what do you guys know/remember about the featherdusters?

Here's an Allpar link to 1970 and later a-bodies with a little insert on the 1976-only Feather Duster near the end.

http://www.valiant.org/duster.html

Neat cars, along with it's Dodge sister, the Dart Lite. Unfortunately, once people started adding V-8 engines and related stuff, the weight went up quickly. But as was noted, several parts interchanged with ealier years which helped out the older cars. These cars and light parts are getting hard to find. If a hood is found, it's necessary to use the lighter hood springs that came with them, or something modified with reduced tension They are hard to close with standard tension hood springs and want to bend.

[dannyboy]

We had 2 while racing for Ed. '74 ( Kaiser Bros. bought this)and a '71. Brian Bachelder drove and his brother Bruce ( Now NHRA SS/S and Stock Tech)and I wrenched). We were brothers-in-law.
Neil Lehman--Stock
Strudwick--Stock
Steve Switzer --1 Super Modified


2- Challengers

[jmcarter]

Any of you familiar with the Hamburger cars know if this car ever ran in his stable? I bought the car with that understanding and it had some blue and white under the shown livery but never bothered to substantiate it...any help appreciated. Won quite a few races with this one...including a IHRA Divisional in Hot Rod. I bought it with a W2 motor, a simple hoop roll bar and just super stock springs but looks like it had some extra links at one time.

[Hemi Moose]

jmcarter, nice looking Duster...do you still own it, or is long gone.

[jmcarter]

Long gone, being bracket raced in Knoxville TN. I earlier posted my other Duster that Roy Johnson built years ago for IHRA SS. That's the car I'd like to have back...

[Hemi Moose]

Originally Posted by jmcarter

Long gone, being bracket raced in Knoxville TN. I earlier posted my other Duster that Roy Johnson built years ago for IHRA SS. That's the car I'd like to have back...

This one...