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[MR DERBY CITY]

Mr. Stevenson, my memory is failing..didn't Charley Moores purchase the Checkerboard car from Ryan ? I always thought that Ryan purchased the Checkerboard car from Hedworth ? M.J.

[Chuck Norton]

Originally Posted by MR DERBY CITY

Mr. Stevenson, my memory is failing..didn't Charley Moores purchase the Checkerboard car from Ryan ? I always thought that Ryan purchased the Checkerboard car from Hedworth ? M.J.

MJ, to the best of my knowledge, Val never owned a '55 two-door, Tim's checkerboard car or any other. He had the orange '55 wagon and the matching '55 four-door, and the all-white '56 two-door wagon. Ryan bought the '55 wagon and the Zoelle Brothers ended up with the '56 in Super Stock in 1972. Don't have a clue as to the final fate of the four-door. After the 1972 season, he switched from the Tri-fives to a '65 Malibu 327 SS/NA.

[Lyn Smith]

Talked to Ted Harbit a little over the weekend at the Old Time Meltdown drags at Byron IL. .He won class at Indy in his Studebaker "Chicken Hawk" 8 years in the 60s to early seventies.Sadly the Chicken Hawk was destroyed in a racing accident in 09.He told me sometimes there was 20 cars in his class(k/s to v/s).He quit racing NHRA in 72 when they got rid of the old cars in stock.

[ss wannabee]

Originally Posted by Chuck Norton

MJ, to the best of my knowledge, Val never owned a '55 two-door, Tim's checkerboard car or any other. He had the orange '55 wagon and the matching '55 four-door, and the all-white '56 two-door wagon. Ryan bought the '55 wagon and the Zoelle Brothers ended up with the '56 in Super Stock in 1972. Don't have a clue as to the final fate of the four-door. After the 1972 season, he switched from the Tri-fives to a '65 Malibu 327 SS/NA.

Wasn't the checkerboard car owned for a time by Bruce Wilkerson from KY? He had
a '55 -150 in SS/T in the '70's and I though that was the car.

When the Neja's ran it in Stock...believe it was featured in PHR magazine...maybe
others?