RUMBLER 40 CLASSIC CAR 18 MINISTRY SUMMARY Scott W. Block 1966 Chevrolet Impala In the RUMBLER Words SS 427 20 1969 CHEVROLET RUMBLER 42 CALENDAR OF 1 CAMARO ZL1 COPO CONTENTS EVENTS 9560 1 CLUB MEETING 45 SWAP SHOP 21 HISTORIC RACE Time & Place 48 CAR CLUB SITES TRACKS 2 BISON 6 50 DAKOTA Show Times BLACKTOP TOUR LOOKING "Thunder Mountain" 2 HAGERTY 52 MEMBERSHIP TOWARDS 22 THE FUTURE INSURANCE APPLICATION CO-FOUNDER DEAD Club President "Skovy" MUSCLE CAR HERO 3 BIRTHDAYS 23 The (FORCE) behind April 's Daughters 3 ACTIVE MEMBERS 23 Ashley Force 4 BUFFALO CITY 26 TOURISM 29 Searle Swedlund HOT ROD 31 JAMESTOWN 5 CLASSIC CAR CLUB MAGAZINE Drives the 2014 Z28 32 AROUND MILL HILL 1969 PONTIAC Chieftain Conference 12 JUDGE Center HINT OF THE MONTH Found in a Barn 33 JAMESTOWN ELKS “Scenic Overlook” 13 CHRYSLER TO 34 CLASSIC CAR SCHOOLS SUMMARY Crush Vipers 1931 Lincoln Model K 14 RUMBLER TECH SCAVENGER HUNT 37 CLASSIC CAR How to put a Classic “Red Pants (Same Pair SUMMARY Muncie behind your LS 1947 Chevy Aerosedan with 1 long leg & 1 short Swap leg)”

P a g e | 2 was a cool feeling how the area loves their hot rods. Seen the “Count” and Kevin and that were pretty cool also.

Our car show is set for September 20th at Don Wilhelm Inc. here in Jamestown. Last year we had 96 cars, trucks, and bikes show up. Impressive to say the least. Can we crack the century mark this year? We’ll see.

Our summer cookouts are in place. It went over so well last year that a few businesses wanted us to come to their facility for our meeting. Free to everybody that comes! These business owners are cooking hamburgers, brats, salads and soft drinks for everybody that shows up. Thank you.

 May 14th Wednesday Jamestown Truck Plaza.  June 7th Saturday Dakota Engine Builders (Hog Roast)  July 16th Wednesday Two Rivers Inn  August 13th Wednesday Buffalo City Rotisserie Grille  September 17th Wednesday Jamestown LOOKING TOWARDS THE Written by Skovy Truck Plaza FUTURE:  October 15th Wednesday Today, Sunday April 6, 2014, looking outside and getting Buffalo City Rotisserie excited about the year to come. Grille Yesterday, Rod Wilhelm and I went to the Toppers Car Show Our “RUMBLER” magazine is and we were both impressed. approaching 5000 issues. North Dakota is no slouch when Currently we have 4400 being it comes to real nice cars. Rod sent out each month via e-mail was pointing out to me a lot of and 300 going out in print form. cars from people from, or originally from Jamestown and it This year “DAKOTA BLACKTOP TOUR” is getting P a g e | 3 around. I’ve been approached by Gleason, Robert & Melissa plenty of individuals saying Gray, JeriLynn & Andy they’re going. We will all meet at Greenlund, Ron & Darlene the Jamestown Truck Plaza on Gums, Robert & Candace the east end of Jamestown. Dale Hansted, Tom & Angie Redinger has agreed to let people Heiman, Tyler with trailers and 2nd cars park Holzkamm, Al & Cindy them at his facility for the Jacobson, Verdell (Jake) & Linda weekend. Thanks Dale! Jaskoviak, Steven (Skovy) Jensen, Paul & Sue There will be more to talk about Johnson, Brandon & Sonia this at our next meeting. See you Kamlitz, Brian th all there April 16 at the Quality MEMBERS BIRTHDAY Keim, Lyman & Darlene Inn. 7:00. APRIL Kleinknecht, Delno & Phyllis Krein, Larry & Kelly It’s a great time to be a James Busche, Barbara 04/08 Lang, John (JR) Valley Street Machines member. Gehring, Duane 04/10 Loose, Larry & Bonita We are connecting with 4700 Gums, Robert 04/13 Lulay, Bob & Alma readers of the “RUMBLER” Petreck, Gary 04/15 Mathias, Roger & Bonnie magazine so far and that number Erdahl, Shawn 04/23 McCreedy, Terrance is climbing at a very exciting Emo, Paul 04/25 McIlonie, Bernie & Darlene rate. If you’re not a member yet, Westerhausen, Leon 04/29 Meidinger, Jamie it’s only $25.00 per year. Meyer, Ken & Annie Get in there! Miss your birthday? Please Miller, Randy & Crystel contact me at 701-202-7067 Mischka, Kenneth & Judy whereas I can update your Mitzel, LeRoy records. Moser, LeRoy & Gloria ACTIVE MEMBERS Obrigewitsch, Les & Sheryl Anderson, Scott & Kim Olson, David & Adele

Bachmeier, Donovan & Karla Patzner, Elroy & Elayne Balvitsch, Wayne Petrek, Gary Baumann, Bob & Brueske, Judy Ravely, Thomas & Rhonda Behm, Earl & Connie Redinger, Dale Berg, Wayne & Tami Schauer, Ronald & Cindy Bergman, Alan Schoepp, Mel & Carol Beyer, James Seckerson, Kelly & Tricia Block, Scott & Pat Seher, Jeff Brandenburger, Max & Williams, Specht, Gary & Margaret Laura Specht, Leslie & Debra Busche, Barbara & Steven Speckman, Dale & Pamela Carow, Billy & Candace Stromberg, Bryan Christianson, Glenn & Lucinda Sullivan, Charlie Dewald, Joel & Della Thoele, Kevin & Kim Emo, Paul Thomas, Troy & Voeltz, Tricia Erdahl, Shawn (Shady) & Dawn VanFleet, Richard Gaier, Craig & Johnston, Ruth Vining, Taylor Gehring, Duane & Kathleen Wegner, Donald & Marla Gibson, Teddy & Diane Westerhausen, Leon & Mary Jane Gilbertson, Mike & Murray, Kim Wiest, J.P. & Judy Gilge, Larry & Cindy Wilhelm, Jeff

P a g e | 4 Wilhelm, Rod & Sandy average days below zero has been mini donuts and corn Wolf, Cameron unspeakable. And the final dogs Wolff, Clayton & Beverly (hopefully) snowstorm at the end  watch fireworks on the of March was in a way, Mother 4th of July Nature sticking her thumb at us one last time.  walk around the neighborhood or to the But when summer arrives, we nearby Dairy Queen will be ready. Not only in the  bike the Pipestem or relief that the winter is over, but White Cloud Trail we will be ready to embrace the  look up at the majestic treasure of summer. skyline and marvel in Every fall, when the first snow the open spaces we flake falls and the temps take for granted transition from long sleeves to  take in a car show – jackets, I lament the number of and be reminded by my things that I “wish” I would have wife that a classic car done. So I’m starting a list. A is not in our future

2014 summer bucket list of  eat my physical weight things I want to do, places I want in smores – over the to see, and the ways I’ve dreamed about summer through this bleak summer of course and long winter. Here are just a  take the back roads and SEARLE SWEDLUND few ways to dream about the check out one of the 10 Executive Director summer ahead: state byways in North Dakota  drink coffee and read the morning newspaper on the deck I declare the summer of 2014 to  fish off the banks of arrive – hopefully sooner than the river and the later – and encourage you all to consider your summer bucket list. reservoir If you need help with your list,  grill at minimum 6 check out NDTourism.com and times a week www.tourjamestown.com/calendar.  fly a kite – literally – maybe at the 20th For more details on these and Annual Kitefest in other upcoming events, see the June calendar in this newsletter or visit our new website at When Summer Arrives  check out one of the new breweries in www.tourjamestown.com! I think we can all agree, this Minot, Bismarck or Searle Swedlund, Executive winter is one to forget. When Fargo Director, BCTF you ask people about it, the  two words – street response is simple; people are dance ready for winter to be over. This  take in at least one past winter hasn’t been the local fair and consume coldest. It has not set any snowfall records. The number of three times the allotted calories in the form of P a g e | 5 test, crashing the legendary Big Red ’69 Camaro, nearly overpowering a dyno, and seriously considering bank robbery as a way to afford the

new ’14 Camaro Z/28.

It began when we received an invite from Chevrolet to come test the ’14 Z/28, and not just test it, but brings whatever we wanted to challenge it, and whomever we wanted to drive it, on the 2.38-mile Barber road course in Birmingham, Alabama. We knew the Z/28 would be a fearsome adversary, videos of a test car Because everyone likes a little running a 7.37.47 around the healthy competition, we brought HOT ROD MAGAZINE along some fellow legends to give famed Nürburgring in the new Z some encouragement. R. J. DRIVES THE 2014 Z/28 Germany (faster than a Gottlieb brought out “Big Red,” a CAMARO Porsche 911, Carrera S, and a ’69 Camaro that many say kick Lamborghini Murcielago, and started the pro-touring movement. A They Wreck Just About in the rain no less!) had little newer, but no less formidable was Jack Goldey’s ’13 Boss 302 Everything Trying to Beat the already been circulating, and New Z/28 Camaro (and Still Laguna Seca-edition Mustang. Ford we’d had a preview of the was a few years ahead on the whole Don’t) car’s massive carbon-ceramic “bring back a legendary Trans-Am By Elena Scherr, Photography by brakes, air-dominating body name” thing. Wes Allison, Hot Rod Staff kit and stripped-down, lightweight interior back in Rehydrating a legacy name is 2013. The ’14 Z/28 was marketing magic these days. clearly poised to revive a Ford beat Chevy to the punch legend, so what could we on the Trans-Am revival, bring out but a few legends of introducing the two-year-only our own? Boss 302 Mustang for ’12 and ’13. The Boss 302 Laguna Seca is, like the new Z/28, intended to be a track car. It, "Well, they're pretty too, has a plethora of down confident, aren't they?" force-increasing rear spoilers, and engine-cooling hood So started a HOT ROD staff extractors. Bracing replaces meeting that would result in us the back seat in the Boss, and flying to Birmingham, a 444hp 5.0L moves it fast on Alabama, in the middle of a the straights, while duct- snowstorm, bringing a cooled 14-inch brakes slow it Mustang to a Chevrolet track down before the corners. Look P a g e | 6 up reviews of the Laguna Seca we wanted someone who never driven that track, and the edition and you won’t find a would really go for it. car is currently in Bonneville bad word about it. The Boss Someone who had made hot trim, so we’d have to change was an instant success with the rod history out of running the engine, suspension setup, corner-burning crowd, and it against Corvettes and Ferraris. and ground effects, but yeah, seemed a likely choice for There was only one choice: we’ll be there.” His team had Internet bench racing between R.J. Gottlieb’s Big Red two weeks to get the Camaro the Blue Oval and Bow Tie Camaro. prepped and towed 2,000 keyboard crew chiefs. We miles out to Birmingham. found a willing participant in Jack Goldey, who said he’d drive his ’13 Boss out from Florida to be part of the test. Jack happened to be friends with nine-time champion racing driver Randy Pobst, so that settled the question of who would drive the new Z/28 Big Red has a variety of engines to and the Boss. choose from, depending on the type of racing R. J. is pursuing. For this test, they used the “Peanut” a 540ci Brodix big-block Chevy built by Larry Mollicone. The engine is stuffed with a Crower crank and Carrillo rods and topped by AFR Big Red first made waves in heads and an 850-cfm Holley 1987, when R.J., then only 17, Dominator. There were no other made a banzai run in a carburetors in sight that day. hopped-up ’69 Camaro during the La Carrera Open Road Race. R.J. hit some high speeds during that race, but he To balance out that entire also hit a ditch. Skip ahead to new-car tech, we wanted the ’89, with Big Red’s classic baddest, meanest, most old- body placed on a full-tube school muscle car we could Trans-Am chassis and Big Red may look like a muscle car find. Something carbureted. powered by a 540ci big-block. on the outside, but the interior of the Something that had never even R.J. ran the Silver State ’69 Camaro tells a different story. heard the terms “LS engine” Classic, and took First Place By comparison, the Boss 302 and or “traction control,” let alone new Z/28 are well-appointed luxury two years in a row. Since then, cocoons. had such installed. The Z/28 the Big Red team has legend started with Trans-Am competed in a variety of We really weren’t sure if racing, so we considered motorsport events including either of our cars was going to bringing a vintage race car, but hill climbs and land-speed show up, so when we got to the owners of the few that events. When we asked R.J. if Barber, it was with some relief exist were less than he’d be interested in running that we spotted the bright enthusiastic about the idea. at Barber, he said, “Well, I’ve Follmer yellow Mustang We didn’t want a showpiece; P a g e | 7 sitting outside the track there, and by using a thinner entrance, looking a bit out of rear-window glass. Even the place in the center of a gaggle sound system was reduced to a of test Camaros. A few single speaker in the door, and minutes later, we heard the that was kept only because sound of an extremely angry federal requirements insist on Chevy big-block. That let us a seatbelt warning chime. Will know that Big Red made it as The ’13 Boss 302 is a 5.0L V8; rated you notice the drop in well. Time to get busy. at 444 hp. Owner Jack Goldey poundage? We found the car hasn’t modified it…yet. felt leaner and less Birmingham was experiencing claustrophobic than an SS or some very uncharacteristic ZL1 fifth-gen, but that cold weather, something that probably had more to do with had the GM engineers the sparse interior than any somewhat concerned about actual weight loss. Many of track conditions, and the rest the Z/28’s most impressive of us somewhat concerned components won’t come into about freezing to death. The Jack Goldey had a roll bar and six- play unless you’re on a new Z/28 offers air- point harness installed in his '13 racetrack. conditioning only as an option, Boss Mustang for track days and but luckily heat is standard. competition use. Jack said he added We spent much of the morning the huge SVO tach because "I wanted one ever since I started doing “scientific” study of the reading HOT ROD as a kid." car’s interior. Our test drivers - - racer Randy Pobst and Big The goal for the Z/28 was Red’s owner R.J. -- didn’t lighter weight, and the curb have that luxury. Damp track weight of our track car was or no, we needed numbers. 3,820 pounds. That’s about Unlike the ZL1, the Z/28 is naturally While Chevy, R.J., and Jack 300 less than the ZL1. To aspirated, giving up horsepower in favor of weight. The 11.0:1 LS7 prepped their respective cars, achieve the slim-down, we got a rundown on what the boasts titanium intake valves and options are limited. There are connecting rods, CNC-ported heads, ’14 Z/28 was packing. no flashy touch screens and no forged crankshaft and steel main heavy supercharger. It’s got a bearing caps and a dry-sump oiling hand-built, naturally aspirated system. 7.0L LS7, a Corvette engine in a Camaro, just like in ’70. Unlike the Boss 302, the Camaro has kept its back seat, although it’s been structurally lightened. Chevrolet already has a two-seater, and the goal with the Camaro is to steal Much has been made about the non- BMW and Porsche fans, not standard air-conditioning in the Corvette customers. Z/28, but predictions are that most Additional pounds were shed people will spring for the option. Adding air, which also adds the in the trunk -- no upholstery seven-speaker sound system, will P a g e | 8 plunk about 31 pounds back on the various NACA ducts and overheating in the Camaro Camaro. inlets makes sure that cool air except maybe the passenger. goes where needed, and no Besides a dry-sump oiling errant vortices hang around to system, the Z/28 8.6-inch cause unwanted lift or drag. rearend features a Torsen Airflow was such a priority helical-gear limited-slip diff that the iconic Chevy Bow Tie and gear-lube cooler. Pickups in the grille was hollowed out for both the oil pan and the so as not to be a restriction. fuel tank are designed with G- GM says this move an forces in mind. As Camaro additional 2.5 cubic feet of air program manager Mark per minute through the engine Stielow told us, “If the gas compartment and out the gauge says empty in the Z/28, carbon-fiber hood extractor, you’re out of gas. It will pick plus it allowed someone with a up whatever is in the tank.” penchant for wordplay to come up with the catchy phrase, “Flow Tie.” Cute.

All that high-speed down force won’t be of much use if you can’t turn at speed, so Chevy spent a lot of time -- and a lot of money -- on suspension and brake upgrades specific to the To make the most of that track Z/28. No Magnetic Ride tech, Randy Pobst got behind Control here, the Z/28 uses a the wheel and ventured out to tuned monotube shock make laps: 1.37.21, 1.36.34, designed by Multimatic Inc., and 1.36.27 seconds. Randy which makes dampers for F1 came in describing the track as racing. Chevy says the spool- “slimy.” There was some Take, for example, the valve technology in the shocks discussion with the GM crew, sophisticated airflow allows for a more tunable and Randy went out again, this management. Down force on shock, capable of a wider time keeping an eye on the tire the Z/28 starts at the very tip range of dampening curves. pressures, which the new Z/28 of the front splitter, designed The Brembo carbon-ceramic will helpfully display in real to withstand up to 250 pounds disc and monobloc six-piston time on the dashboard. “The of pressure. Rocker moldings, front and four-piston rear [Pirelli] P Zero Trofeo R is wheel well extensions, and calipers alone cost more than a very much like a race slick,” deflecting flares flank the track-prepped Miata, but they Randy told us, “the Camaro and work back to a bring the car to a stop from 60 temperatures really affect the rear spoiler topped by an mph in an eyeball-loosening grip, and it takes a few laps to (optional) Gurney Flap (the 113.8 feet. GM says the Z/28 get them up to temperature in wicker bill protruding from the is capable of 1.08 g in the cold weather. Once we rear wing). The most complex cornering acceleration, but dropped the pressure, I had a aero takes place beneath the nothing is sloshing around or lot more confidence, and was car, where a belly pan fed by P a g e | 9 able to push it harder.” The ran 1.40.52, and came in halfway around the track, Big results of that push? 1.36.17, complaining about the brakes. Red set a wheel off and ended the fastest time of the day. The Boss no longer had its up sliding over the wet grass stock pads, and the “upgrades” into a soft barrier. Holy crap, weren’t stopping the car as we crashed the Big Red quickly as Randy would have Camaro! liked. “I think the brakes held the Mustang back by at least a As often happens with a get- second,” Randy said later. off, there were some nervous minutes until we heard R.J. was unharmed, and they got the ’69 Camaro out of the damp grass and back to the pits. The low-speed crash didn’t damage the Camaro’s undercarriage, but it did crumple the driver-side fender and part of the front air dam, Then R.J. took Big Red out for just enough damage to keep Barber Motorsports Park is a 16- a turn. The ’14 Z sounds R.J. from heading back out on turn, 2.38-mile road course. It was good—it has tri-Y headers and track to try and beat the originally designed for motorcycles, a 3-inch exhaust. It’s not a 1.41.84 that he’d turned before and is considered a tight, technical the crash. We thought R.J. course, especially for street cars. To quiet car. The Boss sounds get the best out of our test cars, we better. One of the major would be pissed, but he just left the driving duties to Randy Pobst selling points for the Mustang shrugged, and then got to work and R. J. Gottlieb. when it came out was its repairing the damage enough burping, unbaffled exhaust. that we could have him take Neither of those cars can hold Red out on the track for a candle to the sound of an photography. “You can’t say I old-school big-block revving wasn’t trying,” he said. up on the straightaway. All the GM guys came out to the pit wall to see R.J. go by. They might have been just a little nervous, or maybe they, like us, just liked the rush of watching 800+ hp on track. The Z/28 team is made up of real car guys, several of them, Everyone would have liked to like chief engineer Al see if Big Red or the Boss Oppenheiser and fellow could have bettered their How would our privately engineer Mark Stielow, are times, but we had a dyno date owned muscle cars stack up owners of vintage Camaros across town, and needed to get against the factory-prepped themselves. R.J. made a few there before it snowed, machines? Randy took a lap in laps and then came in to try a because yes, the weather the Mustang to find out. He different set of tires. About forecast in Alabama was P a g e | 10 calling for flurries. We piled 18x11 front, front, other lane. But if you stay on front, 19x11.5 19x9.5 into our pony cars and headed 18x12 rear rear point, the Z/28 is obedient and 30 miles to Speed South rear responsive, like a big dog Motorsports. TIRES Hoosier Pirelli Pirelli whose well-trained -- unless A6 PZero PZero there’s a squirrel. 315/30 Trofeo max R18 305/30R performa front, 19 nce 335/30 255/40R R18 19 front, rear 285/35R 19 rear

Finally, we were handed the We took a road trip to Speed South, keys to a Z/28 and let loose. where Jim Summerville put both our From the second you get in the Like all '14 Camaros the hood of the red Camaros on the roller. Jim uses car, it feels perfect, at least to Z/28 in stamped aluminum. The heat a Mustang dyno, as opposed to the those of us trained on more extractor in carbon fiber, with a more common Dynojet. He feels the stripped-down transportation. plastic rain tray beneath. When the results, although sometimes “lower” The Recaro seats are slim and tray is removed, as it was on our are more useful in predicting real- track car, you pull the dipstick world performance. manually operated no 10- without having to open the hood. The minute wait while a whirring front splitter is blown plastic rather BIG RED VS. Z/28 VS. BOSS electric motor inches you than carbon fiber, as it is on the CAR '69 '14 Z/28 '13 Boss forward after the photographer Corvette. Chevy says this keeps Camaro Camaro Mustang set the seat all the way back replacement costs down for the "Big customer. They really want you to Red" for photos. The clutch is stiff, race this. ENGINE 540ci 7.0L 5.0 but not unpleasantly so. When Donova LS7 Coyote you turn the key, and it is a n V8 good, old-fashioned key, the REDLINE 7,000 7,000 7,500 427ci-LS7 comes instantly to HP(RATED) 850hp 505hp 444hp heel. There’s no dash-mounted TORQUE 701 lb- 470 lb-ft 380 lb-ft widescreen demanding phone ft syncs and nav inputs; it’s a TRANSMIS Liberty Tremec Tremec car, not an office space, and it On the road, the car is quick SION 4-speed 6-speed 6-speed wants to be driven. but not terrifying, the 15-inch BRAKE 14-inch 15-inch 14-inch carbon-ceramic brakes are DIAMETER Baer Brembo Brembo You wouldn’t want the more than up to the task of CALIPERS 6-piston 6-piston 4-piston Baer front/4- front/sin distractions of the office stopping you from any speed piston gle- anyway; the Z/28 requires attainable on public roads rear piston rear more attention than your without awakening a flock of police helicopters. The WEIGHT 3,300 3,820(no 3,632 average auto. The eyes-off, n-air) one-handed, texting position transmission is the same SUSPENSIO Coil Coil MacPher of the contemporary commuter Tremec six-speed found in all N over over 4.5- son strut won’t fly when you’ve got new pony cars, and a 3.91 and 3- link front, link indepen solid- 305/30R19 Pirellis, aligned for final gear ratio means that rear dent rear axle rear the track on all four race- passing power is available all REAR 3.91:1 3.91:1 3.73:1 sprung corners. If your the way up the pattern. We GEARS attention wanders, the Camaro were sorry to arrive at Speed WHEELS BBS 19x11 19x9 will also wander -- into the South, because it meant we P a g e | 11 had to turn over the keys to the percent drivetrain loss, comes gorgeous, capable of drawing dyno operator. up to just above the advertised a crowd while standing still, 505 flywheel rating. We and fastest by 11.34 mph on Speed South in Pelham, weren’t able to test the Barber’s straights. Put on a Alabama, is a race tuner Mustang before its owner had bigger, more open track, and specializing in modern muscle to leave, but we knew going in Red’s horses might do more and exotics. The shop was full that the Boss was the than bite at the heels of the of ’caged Corvettes and cast- lightweight in our matchup, Z/28, but unless you have a off slicks. Owner Dave down 61 hp from the Z/28’s giant budget and a skilled Leonard and his guys were LS7. crew, you aren’t going to be genuinely excited to see our able to park Big Red, or Boss, the new Z and Big Red, anything like it, in your crawling underneath the cars garage. R.J. estimates and comparing the various reproducing Red would take aero and cooling elements. upward of $150,000, and he came with a five-person crew to help with warming up, cooling down, and loading up the mighty rouge first-gen.

The Boss, on the other hand, is comparatively affordable. We’ve seen clean used Boss Engineer Rich Quinn came up with 302s advertised for less than the "Flow Tie," and it was a mad $30,000 -- although you’ll pay rush to get it approved and into more for the Laguna Seca production. edition. As Jack proved by driving 500 miles to and from Big Red went first on the our test, and Randy proved by dyno, and the big bruised running comparable times to Camaro was just not in the Big Red despite half the mood to cooperate, bouncing horsepower and lousy brakes, and sliding on the drum, and the Laguna Seca Boss is an popping at high rpm. We incredibly competent machine never got a clean pull, and had on both the street and the to settle for a verdict of 576hp track. at the wheels, and 582 lb-ft of torque. Time for the new Z. Chevrolet was very nice to let us take its brand-new car off site, but there was clearly some concern, as they repeatedly told us to make sure the dyno shop didn’t take any pictures. In Z/28 trim the So, once the dust and numbers settled, how did the cars line LS7 put down 438 hp at the wheels, which, given a 15- up? Well, Big Red is P a g e | 12 "The Z/28 is easily modified, 1969 PONTIAC JUDGE “I hope he will get to it and track focused. It's sort of FOUND IN BARN sometime, but I can tell you [it a 'halo-Camaro,' a real hot won’t be anytime] in the near rod." - Mark Stielow The Lost Judge in the future,” the uncle says. So Barn. One of Pontiac’s let’s go back to the question. rarest muscle cars awaits What would you do if you its fate. were the first person to discover this 1969 Pontiac Story by Christopher R. Phillip (Hot Rod Magazine) GTO Judge in its location and in the condition it is in? What would you do if you opened a rickety-old barn door, and there, untouched by Still, it’s the new Z/28 that human hands for decades, was we’d love to take home. a documented 1969 Pontiac We’ve been behind the wheel GTO Judge—one of the most of nearly every new pony car collectible coupes in muscle- model in the last few years, car history? and nothing has felt so pure, so familiar to those of us on We will let you ponder that What’s behind the barn door? Sakes alive, it’s a ’69 GTO Judge—one of staff that regularly drives question for now and tell you 6,833 produced that model year and one vintage muscle. The Z/28 does that the photos in this feature of the hottest collector cars in the nothing but steer, stop, and are real. Here’s the backstory. muscle-car hobby today. accelerate -- which, correct us if we’re wrong, is the whole Some 25 years ago or more, point of a car -- and it does all this Judge traded ownership, three of those things and it’s new (and current beautifully. It’s the perfect owner) put it in the safest new car for old-car people, but place on his property he could how many of us can buy a find—a cow barn. He planned $75,000 Camaro, and will any on restoring it, but his out-of- of the folks who can afford it state job was an excuse to Original Ram Air callouts indicate this choose it over the friendlier, procrastinate, and the years Judge is likely powered by a 366hp more comfortable Corvette? passed and passed and passed. Pure-Pontiac Ram Air III 400.

What havoc does 25 years in a cow barn wreck upon a muscle car? According to the owner’s uncle (both men prefer that their names and the location of The Judge are not disclosed to the public), The Judge is covered up to the rockers in The Judge’s original airfoil-style spoiler mud and cow manure, and rat looks like it has survived, despite its less- than-ideal storage conditions. The Rally excrement litters both its IIs haven’t turned since the ’80s. exterior and interior. P a g e | 13 CHRYSLER TO SCHOOLS Shelby Cobra and give CRUSH VIPERS Chrysler a world-class sports car. Powered by a massive V- Story by (Old Cars Weekly Magazine) 10 with 400 hp, the early Viper’s brute force overwhelmed many drivers.

Here’s the down and dirty. Look down and see how dirty The Judge is. That’s mud, cow manure, and rat excrement up to the rockers.

This unique early Viper coupe at South Puget Sound Community College in Olympia, Wash., was ordered to be destroyed by Fiat-Chrysler Chrysler, like other car OLYMPIA, Wash. – A companies, donates vehicles community college in that cannot be legally driven State is fighting to on the street to high schools keep the pre-production With a Caterpillar standing watchful and colleges as teaching tools Dodge Viper the college has guard, The Judge still calls out its for future auto mechanics. identity on its damaged fender. been ordered to destroy. The Olympia College has South Puget Sound about 20 donated vehicles in Community College admits its auto shop. Their Viper the 1992 Viper SRT, the stands out. It was the fourth fourth produced by Chrysler, Viper ever built, with a has little educational value to prototype hard top years the school’s automotive before Dodge offered a program, the Olympian production version. With no reported. But officials say the The Judge’s owner says that he will emissions controls, and no car is a great promotional tool, restore it someday, but it’s been sitting speed limiter, the V-10 can in this barn for 25 years. much in demand at high make 600 hp, and school schools and auto shows. instructors say it could be “Everybody wants their worth $250,000 to a museum picture taken with the Viper,” or private Viper fan. Bob Riggin, a teacher at the Norm Chapman, who teaches college, said. “This car automotive technology at belongs in a museum, not in a South Puget Sound, said the crusher.” company told him that Fiat- The original Dodge Viper Chrysler ordered all 93 Vipers The rolled up windows have kept the revealed in 1992 was a beast now in educational programs cows from nibbling on the interior, but of a machine — an attempt by destroyed because two of not the rats. Check out the rally gauges those 93 had been involved in with in-dash tachometer and shifter. then-Chrysler exec Bob Lutz Hey, this thing is a four-speed! to revive the spirit of the accidents by joyriding P a g e | 14 students, creating a major be interested in giving the car time to go back to the basics, a liability for Chrysler. a new home. Muncie close-ratio four-speed. Nothing high tech, just grab Chrysler Group, however, HOW TO PUT A CLASSIC the handle and do what feels released a statement March 6 MUNCIE BEHIND YOUR right. that they haves no record of LS SWAP any legal proceedings involving Dodge Viper Switch to Stick vehicles donated to Story & Photography by Mark Ehlen, (Car educational institutions being Craft Magazine) involved in accidents and product liability lawsuits. They did, however, explain their position on destroying Vipers:

“Approximately 10 years ago, Chrysler Group donated a number of Dodge Viper vehicles to various trade schools for educational Sometimes, old just feels purposes. As part of the donation process, it is standard procedure — better. Not that there's and stipulated in our agreements — anything wrong with the new that whenever vehicles are donated technology available to car to institutions for education enthusiasts today. It allows us purposes that they are to be to do things we couldn't even destroyed when they are no longer needed for their intended dream about a few short years educational purposes. With ago. But there is something advancements in automotive about operating a pure technology over the past decade, it is mechanical device that brings unlikely that these vehicles offer any great satisfaction. educational value to students. Chrysler Group fully understands and appreciates the historical Such was the case with the significance of the Viper and is very owner of this early Camaro. active in preserving many of its Now everyone knows that GM Initially, high-tech EFI- never put a Muncie behind an legendary models and designs for controlled LS with an historic purposes however, none of LS, so a way was needed to these vehicles fit into this category.” electronically controlled mate those two and also find a 480LE were installed. But simple way to work the clutch Olympia school officials say even with the option of around the headers. Keisler they were told March 4 they manual shift control, the auto Engineering had the solution have a two-week deadline to trans—though it worked to both issues with a flywheel, destroy the Viper. The school beautifully and arguably made a hydraulic clutch, and a has asked Chrysler to give the the car faster—just couldn't bellhousing that allow an LS car a reprieve and Lemay- bring complete fulfillment. to play nice with a Muncie. America’s Car Museum in Right away, thoughts of a five- Classic Industries was called Tacoma, Wash., said it would or even a six-speed swap come on for the Muncie, as well as to mind, but no, this was a P a g e | 15 LS flywheel FWG- the shifter, the linkage, and the Keisler 26.95 pedals to control it. bolt kit 11569956 PBG- Pilot bearing Keisler 49.00 00104

The Keisler hydraulic throw-out bearing or CSC requires a special front bearing retainer to both keep it centered on the input shaft and to prevent it from rotating around the Parts The key to hooking up a Muncie shaft. Note the locating pin at the top Description PN Source Price four-speed to an LS is, of course, a of the retainer. '67–'81 Classic bellhousing that bolts to both. Camaro $4.95 K981 Industri brake/clutch ea. Keisler’s bell is 6.5 inches deep and es pedal pad features thick-wall titanium- '68–'70 aluminum construction. The flywheel Classic Camaro/Fireb is a 168-tooth billet steel version F872 Industri 349.99 ird four-speed es that will handle both 11- and 12- Hurst shifter inch clutches. This 11-inch clutch '69–'72 and pressure plate are rated to 550 Camaro Classic hp and 500 lb-ft of torque. brake/clutch E339 Industri 89.99 pedal es Resist the temptation to just throw it assembly all together and take the time to '68–'69 Camaro check the bellhousing run out. 9780055 OER 16.95 chrome shift Attach a dial indicator to the crank boot retainer with a magnetic mount and take '69 Camaro readings every 90 degrees. Max run neutral safety 1993494 OER 59.99 switch out should be within 0.004 to 0.007inch. Keisler’s CNC-machined '69 Camaro Classic console w/ R316906 Industri 799.95 While it may have been possible to bell is very good. This is a nicely gauges es fit a standard clutch linkage around built precision part. '69 factory the LS headers, a hydraulic clutch Classic Hurst Muncie will work in all applications. It’s not E367 Industri 138.99 shifter w/ es exactly old school, but it is purely linkage mechanical and the driving '68–'69 F- Classic experience will be the same. The body four- 9795407 Industri 28.95 Keisler kit comes with the throw-out speed Hurst es shift boot bearing (technically known as a concentric slave cylinder or CSC), '69 M21 four- Classic 1,474.9 speed TR204 Industri master cylinder, reservoir, and 9 transmission es hoses. Also included is a The Muncie front retainer is CLA- replacement front bearing retainer replaced with a special Keisler unit Clutch kit PK1877KE Keisler 269.95 to keep the CSC centered and to that centers the bearing to keep it A prevent it from rotating. Spacers from riding on the input shaft. Note GM BHG- the pin at the top of the retainer that Keisler 249.95 may also be needed to ensure proper bellhousing 00105 bearing clearance or cushion. keeps the bearing from rotating and GM steel FWG- locates the line fitting toward the Keisler 299.95 flywheel 460535 clutch arm opening. Hydraulic CAG- clutch HWF1TK Keisler 649.95 actuator kit O P a g e | 16 high-performance copper organic 0.500 inch to the standard 2.52 single disc with a nodular iron inches, which then yields 3.02 diaphragm pressure plate. It is rated inches. Subtract 3.02 (fully at 550 hp and 500 lb-ft of torque. compressed bearing plus spacers) from 3.17 (distance from fingers to mount face), and we get 0.150 inch, which is now within range. The 1⁄8- inch minimum cushion is needed to compensate for heat expansion and This should go without saying, but clutch wear. If it turns out you don’t how many times have you heard of have enough cushion without any someone switching from an spacers, Keisler makes a 0.250-inch automatic to a manual and they bellhousing-to-transmission spacer forget to install the pilot bushing for Setting up the proper clearance or, that should allow you the room you the input shaft? The bushing is need. Or if you just need a little included with the kit. more accurately, the proper cushion for the bearing is critical for correct room, some more material could be operation. This bearing is designed removed from the surface of the to be in constant contact with the flywheel. Since this bearing has a pressure plate fingers—by the way, total travel of approximately 9⁄10 this unit is not compatible with most inch (minus the cushion, of course) three-finger pressure plates and, in and most clutches release within 1⁄2 fact, is mostly compressed by the inch of travel, there is now plenty of fingers when at rest. The procedure extra travel to keep the bearing from for measuring the cushion is pretty overextending. The guys at MCR straightforward. Start by measuring took the extra step of measuring the the distance from the transmission bearing-to-trans mounting face with mounting face to the contact surface the bearing full of the pressure plate fingers. Subtracting 2.52 inches (per Keisler instructions) from that measurement equals the amount of cushion there is in the bearing. Another way to look at it is this number is how much farther the bearing can be MCR has every new flywheel lightly compressed before it bottoms out resurfaced before it is installed. It’s and at that point would not fully rare, but we’ve seen new flywheels release the clutch. In our case, the that aren’t flat. That reduces the finger to mounting face holding capacity and speeds up the measurement was 3.17 inches. wear on the disc. And don’t forget to Subtracting 2.52 yields 0.65 inches, use a thread-locker and oil-sealer on which is way outside the 0.125 to the bolts. Remember, LS crank 0.375 range that’s required? The threads are open to crankcase oil. bearing has about The torque sequence is first 15, then 37, and lastly 74 lb-ft on the bolts. It should be noted that Keisler recommends installing the bellhousing and transmission, with the hydraulic line attached to the CSC, as one unit. The guys at MCR, however, were constrained both by habits and the desire to avoid any chance of damaging the line during Fortunately, Keisler makes 0.250- the installation, so the line was inch spacers available for just such installed and tightened via the clutch The clutch is a Sach’s Borg & Beck occasions. Adding two of those adds fork opening after the Trans was in P a g e | 17 place. But note this: Extreme care its close-ratio version of this easily be done from the engine side must be taken to avoid cross- Muncie. of the firewall. threading the fitting.

It is difficult to see under the brake master cylinder and Hydro boost system, and it certainly would have been much easier to install the clutch master cylinder by removing the Hydro boost system first, but MCR wanted to be sure that there was adequate clearance for it and the fluid lines before mounting it to the firewall.

Near-perfect pushrod alignment was The Trans cross member is from achieved using the lower of the two Detroit Speed and provides more holes that were already in the clutch clearance for the exhaust than a pedal arm. Adjust the pushrod to get factory cross member would. whatever pedal height you prefer, but be sure that the master cylinder is not being prevented from fully returning to its home position. The usual rubber pedal stop at the top of the pedal travel is not required since there is no pedal “free play” before the pedal engages the throw-out bearing. This system is engineered for installation without the need to The clutch master cylinder bolts over consider pedal ratios. As long as the the existing clutch rod hole through proper cushion has been set, there the firewall. As seen here, the angle should be no chance of over- of the pushrod should be kept as traveling the pressure plate or over- close to the centerline of the master extending the bearing. cylinder as possible.

MCR used the master cylinder backing plate as a template for The kit comes with a bracket to Classic Industries supplied a new drilling the mounting holes through mount the fluid reservoir to two of Hurst shifter, linkage, boot and the firewall. If you choose to remove the bolts of your brake master clutch, and brake pedals to go with your brake master, this could more cylinder. You can mount it anywhere that’s convenient. Just be sure to P a g e | 18 keep the rubber hose away from the fluid path like a normal wheel RUMBLER MINISTRY headers or anything that it could cylinder, it might be necessary to potentially rub against. bleed the system again after a short period of use to remove any last SCOTT W. BLOCK remnants of air from the system.

Words A new four-speed console with gauges was obtained from Classic Since being a preacher for Industries to finish the interior look. about eight years now, I have been called many names. Ha, I know what you are thinking! Some of the names that have been used to describe me by

others have not been very kind and I won’t repeat them here, after all this is a PG article. Bleeding the system is very much like But some words have been bleeding brakes. Fill the reservoir rather nice compliments, with fluid and open the bleeder sincere, and dare I say, even a screw. When the drip becomes a little flattering. Thank you to steady stream, close the bleeder and those who have been kind with then have a buddy depress the clutch while you open the bleeder. When their words that have been the clutch pedal reaches the floor, spoken to me. Thank you for close the bleeder and release the the strokes, I appreciate them clutch. The pedal may need to be and consider them to be manually pulled up from the floor encouraging. until at least most of the air is out because it’s the pressure from the One of the nicest comments clutch fingers depressing the throw- out bearing that pushes fluid back that have passed over my ear against the master cylinder that (drums) has been the idea of raises the clutch pedal. When there me being a “word-smith.” is air in the system, that pressure Hmmm, I kind of like that. It just compresses that air. Because the makes me think of a carpenter, bleeder screw is not at the end of the P a g e | 19 who works with wood to Though perhaps my model you disappointed and it felt create beautiful objects and year is getting along in years, I like your NOS went all up in who takes such care and am not a crank! Sure I get a smoke? Were you able to grab diligence in creating. Or little gassy now and then, onto something, and then hold perhaps even better or more and show some wrinkle tightly on to it? If so, if you so, a person who works with (walls), my belt is a bit held tightly, then it’s metal and creates masterpieces pinched, and perhaps a fat- something else, and not you! of art, utensils, or bodywork fender is showing, but I still on a Rat. I don’t think of an have some cubes left in this What you have found, when artisan as perhaps as one old double pumper. you discover that you are would think of a bondo-bomb. hanging on in spite of your But a “word-smith” as a title Inside of myself, I still feel difficult circumstances, for a preacher, well, that’s just cherry, channeled, ported, with simply, is God. You see you delightful, and I appreciate tons of traction and a whole cannot “pick yourself up by being called such a person. bunch of duration yet to go. the bootstraps.” It is actually Simply, that feels good to me Life has not taken all that it quite impossible to do by and imparts the idea of can from me yet, the gas-pedal yourself. This is not something craftsmanship and care being is not yet mashed to the floor that you are able to utilized in what I say. It is and I still have mileage to go. manufacture inside of much better than being called yourself, but rather it is So now that you know how I a huffer or wind-bag. Or worse something that comes to you am doing, how are all of you yet, instead of me preaching or from the outside. And that faring these days? Do you feel proclaiming the Gospel, I am “outside” is, well, it’s God. like an old goat, or a mouse, or considered to be just loping Believe it or not. a rocket? Are you still full of along! I do indeed, to the best nitro, ready to hit the strip of Now this is good news. Uh, of my ability, take great care daily life? no, actually, it is Great News. in the choice of words that I Now you know you can turn to use, say, preach, and yes, at Take an honest assessment of that unseen force that is all times, even think. This yourself. Put yourself on the around you, holding you up, particular preacher does not dyno and check your supporting you, giving to you consider himself to be a displacement, moons, and fuel. over and over again. Hang bowtie wearing, flat-head, Do you feel you are a hemi, in onto it, cling to it, grasp it with slick, and certainly not a bored need of working on your all your might, and behold preacher! head(er) s, or has your vision your Savior. Now you know been tunneled by your lack of you don’t have to do it alone, drive? Has your chop been and that you are not alone in taken by the rockcrusher that the streets! constantly invades your life? Have you lost your steel (ies), In closing, I am hoping that your conviction, because it has you caught my “car” words. been chopped and you feel From my count I have used 42 like a deuce instead of a words that come from the something else? Street Rod/Hot Rod vocabulary. I challenge you to So where are you? Did you go back and find them all! like what you found? Or were

P a g e | 20 Lastly, may God watch over The ZL1 was Central Office $7,269, the ZL1 was almost your going out, you’re coming Production Order 9560 twice the cost of a cast-iron in, your words, and your life, (COPO) that could be V8. Fred had trouble selling from this day forward and specially ordered for an the 50 which were worth over forevermore. Thank you additional $4,160 over the $363,000 combined. Many reading my words. Keep on base price of the Camaro. This cars were redistributed cruising! Blessings to all of internal 'fleet' order helped through the Chevrolet dealer you! overcome the restrictions GM network and others had their placed on Chevrolet to only engines removed to try out in offer engines smaller than 400 different projects. cubic inches in the Camaro. Since COPO was really meant Only 13 ZL1s were sold for special paint and options directly by Fred’s dealership. on commercial vehicles, the Some were further prepared by ZL1s were not exempt from the dealership and tuned by warranties and they were Dick Harrell. Around 20 cars 100% street legal. were prepared for the NHRA Super Stock series, and when The ZL1 came at the request tuned right and with slicks of Fred Gibb who wanted a could reach low tens in the more powerful option for quarter mile. NHRA . A minimum of 50 cars had to be made to go racing and 1969 CHEVROLET CAMARO eventually only 69 were ZL1 COPO 9560 ordered. It was intended only for professional drag racers that could recoup the expensive list price.

At the center of ZL1 was a fire-breathing V8 originally developed for the Can-Am

Story by Richard Owen (Supercars.net) Chaparral? It used cylinder heads similar to aluminum- In 1969, Chevrolet offered a head L88 engine, but had an wide range of engines for both entirely aluminum block with the Camaro and the mightiest steel liners. Unlike the Can- of these were the aluminum Gibb intended to sell the entire Am unit, the ZL1 had wet- block, 427 cubic inch V8 production run from his sump lubrication, K66 known as the ZL1.When dealership in La Harpe, transistorized ignition system equipped in the small Camaro; Illinois. His ‘what wins on and accommodations for a it could run circles around Sunday sells on Monday’ mechanical fuel pump. Fed by most of the Corvettes on the ethos struck a chord with a single Holley 4-barrel, it was street. Chevrolet's manager Pete the most powerful engine GM Estes. Offered at a price tag of offered to the public and P a g e | 21 produced around 500 honest a much-needed $4 million HISTORIC RACE TRACKS horsepower. This was attached improvement project, which to a new positraction BANDIMERE SPEEDWAY included a year sabbatical on differential with larger pinion (Thunder Mountain) the national event circuit. The and axle gears. While 69 of many facility improvements these were included in the allowed for diversity of Camaro, only a handful came events, more spectator seating, equipped in the Corvette. better pit areas for race vehicles, improved spectator parking and access to all areas of the facility, and an unsurpassed venue for sponsor involvement with improved sign visibility. The ability to Story by (Wikipedia.com) host larger spectator events Bandimere Speedway, also added a tremendous amount of known in the NHRA as exposure opportunities for the Thunder Mountain, is a facility and its sponsors. quarter-mile located Seating capacity of the The ZL1 Camaro started as a grandstands was increased 396 SS body, but had the F4l just outside Morrison, Colorado and Lakewood, from approximately 8,000 to suspension, ZL2 cowl- over 23,500. induction hood, heavy duty Colorado. It opened in 1958 front springs, heavy duty front and hosts the NHRA’s Mile- High Nationals. The facility Now, nearly 50 years later, the brakes and a four-speed only thing at Bandimere sometimes ordered with the has a seating capacity of 23,500 spectators. Speedway that has not M21 close ratios. With the changed is the facility's stock tires, the ZL1 could do In 1958, John Bandimere Sr. location. Nearly every original the ¼ mile in the low 13 building has been replaced second range. Many of the purchased a parcel of land on the west side of Denver including the original spark ZL1 Camaros received hard plug-replica timing tower and race lives and were rebodied nestled up against the Hogback leading up to the the event schedule has grown or modified in drastic ways for nearly 10 times its original racing. Rocky Mountains. He and his family began the process of size to host a variety of constructing a small but specialty events, including the efficient drag strip that was to NHRA Full Throttle Mopar be used to augment their auto Mile-High Nationals. parts business. It also was the fulfillment of a dream of John "This speedway was the Sr.'s to provide a safe fulfillment of a life-long environment for young people dream of dad and mom's," to learn about cars and race relates John Bandimere, Jr., them off the streets. track president. "It gives me great joy to know that through In 1988 the Bandimere family the efforts and support of many dedicated people over made the decision to undergo P a g e | 22 the years, we are enjoying latter being a substantial safety and boats, and a one-time over 45 years as a successful measure. liability charge no matter how full-time racing facility and many cars you own. look forward to many more years in the business."

The track has several quirks that make it unique within the NHRA's schedule of events. First, and foremost, is the altitude. At over 5,000 feet in the air, the air is much thinner Frank Hagerty in a classic wooden boat, than any if its sea-level one of his loves and also one of the counterparts, which translates impetuses for the insurance company he founded. out to less air being pushed over the rear wings, and a loss HAGERTY INSURANCE CO- Born on June 16, 1934, Frank of down force, the thinner air FOUNDER FRANK Hagerty grew up in Detroit, also slows the cars down Mich., relocating to Traverse HAGERTY PASSES AWAY dramatically, a 330 mph run City, Mich., in his early 20s. on any other track would AT 79: He started a successful barely top 320 at Bandimere, independent insurance agency, Frank Hagerty impacted while a sub-4 second run which he sold in 1981, before would be over the 4 second the classic wooden boat, co-founding Hagerty with his mark. car hobbies wife, Louise, in 1984. Hagerty Insurance is now the largest The NHRA also adjusts the Story and photos by Angelo Van Bogart (Old company in the world indices in their bracket Cars Weekly) specializing in insurance categories, typically by six Frank Hagerty impacted the coverage for classic cars and tenths. Super Comp runs to classic wooden boat, car vintage wooden boats. 9.50, Super Gas to 10.50, and hobbies TRAVERSE CITY, Super Street is run to 11.50 Frank shared his love of Mich. (March 19, 2014) – seconds. All bracket racing- restoring vintage vehicles with Hagerty announced today that based classes are also his three children, Kim, co-founder Frank Hagerty reindexed because of altitude. Tammy and McKeel, who passed away yesterday at age were allowed to choose their 79 at his home after a battle first car and restore it with with cancer. Frank’s belief their father in the family that vintage wooden boats garage. Kim restored a 1960 were much more than just Corvair Lakewood station “floating pieces of firewood wagon, Tammy a 1960 filled with gas” transformed Porsche 356 B roadster, and the specialty insurance market McKeel a 1967 Porsche 911S. The track is also the only for vintage wooden boats and NHRA sanctioned track with a classic cars. His passion led to “Those restoration projects downhill staging area, and many visionary ideas within were purchased for less than uphill shut down strip. The the hobby, such as Agreed $500 apiece, and they were all Value coverage for all cars incredibly rusty and non- P a g e | 23 running, but they gave each us Sleeping Bear Dunes — a car MUSCLE CAR HERO lots of time with Dad and an he had dreamed of driving appreciation for restoring and since he was a teenager. THE (FORCE) BEHIND preserving cars,” said McKeel JOHN FORCE’S Hagerty, President and CEO DAUGHTERS of Hagerty. “Growing up working in the garage with my dad taught us that hard work and perseverance can bring a big reward. Some of our greatest joys were hearing an engine fire up for the first Frank Hagerty in the 1948 Ford he time. dreamed of owning — a Sleeping Bear Dunesmobile — following the 2014 Amelia Island Concourse d’Elegance. “But he also taught us the importance of taking care of Now fully restored, the the less fortunate. He was Dunesmobile received “Best incredibly generous to people of Class” honors at the 2014 even in his final days,” Amelia Island Concourse McKeel said. “The values he d’Elegance. Frank’s last ride taught – the importance of in a collector car was to accept preserving history, working that award. Story (johnforceracing.com) hard and taking care of people – eventually allowed us to ASHLEY FORCE grow Hagerty from a single employee in the basement of my parents’ house to a team of more than 600 employees worldwide.” Frank retired more than 20 years ago, when he transitioned Hagerty to Louise and, later, to the next generation of Hagertys. Since then, his time has been devoted to the activities he enjoyed most: tinkering and restoring vintage cars and boats, and building scale- model railroads. Frank’s lifelong love of the automobile culminated in 2012 when he Like Father; Like Daughter located an original “Dunesmobile” — a 1948 Ashley Force already has Ford convertible that was used proven that she's more than to chauffeur tourists on the just another pretty face. P a g e | 24 (4.665 seconds) and speed Although she is featured in (333.58 mph); the only drag Her orientation, national print ads for Oakley's racer to have won as many as which began in 2005, Riddles sunglasses and is one 100 NHRA tour events (119). accelerated this year when she of the stars of Driving Force, a began driving a new new real-life series on A&E Her sisters, Brittany, 19, and McKinney Corporation slip- Network, the 23-year-old is Courtney, 17, both driver tube chassis built to address most at home in the cockpit of Super Comp dragsters. Even her specific requirements. a race car. her mother, Laurie, is licensed Previously when she tested, to drive competitively. The she drove her dad's Ford Currently the standout driver irony is that Ashley isn't Mustang, a situation that of the 275 mile per hour motivated by a desire to proved unsatisfactory on two Castrol dragster, a purpose- succeed her father, but rather fronts. built hybrid in which she is to beat him. contesting the 2006 NHRA No. 1, she was uncomfortable, championship, "I'm going to mess with him physically, because of all the she is poised to move up in on the starting line," she joked. cockpit adjustments that had to classification at the wheel of a "I think a lot of drivers are be made to accommodate the 7,000 horsepower drag racing intimidated (by American difference in their physiques Funny Car in which she motor racing's 1996 Driver of and, No. 2, she was already has tested at 315 mph. the Year), but to me he's just uncomfortable, dad. He'll be so worried about psychologically, because the That's pretty heady stuff for a his little girl in the other lane car she was driving wasn't a former high school that by the time he recovers, back-up; it was the same cheerleader who studied I'll be gone. At least that's Mustang in which her dad was television and film at how it is in my dreams." chasing another NHRA California State University- championship. Fullerton. Although she is projected as a 2007 Rookie-of-the-Year Since moving to the new car, Ashley comes by her "need for candidate in Funny Car, the she's made incredible speed" quite honestly. It's all elder Force has insisted that progress. in the genes. there is no specific time table for his daughter's assimilation "She has a unique feel for the into a category in which a car," Antonelli said, something woman has never reached the he attributes to her winners' circle. apprenticeship in Super Comp and Top Alcohol. "The truth "She needs seat time," said the is we've been holding her back driver of the Castrol GTX (because) we want her to feel . "When she's what it's like to have tire shake ready, she and 'Guido' (crew and dropped cylinders (a chief Dean Antonelli) will condition in which the engine know it. Until then, her main isn't firing on all eight Her father, John Force, is the responsibility is to (Jerry) cylinders) at different points 13-time NHRA Funny Car Darien and (Ken) Meadows on the track. champion and world record and the Castrol dragster." holder for quarter mile time P a g e | 25 in 3½ years with a degree in Lucas, she became just the communications. third woman in history to win the Mac Tools U.S. Nationals Ashley suspect things were at , Ind., the sports going to be interesting the first oldest, largest and most time she expressed a genuine prestigious single event. interest in pursuing a driving career. She went on to win two more national races and, at the "Dad said as soon as I got my season-ending Auto Club car, I needed to start sleeping Finals at Pomona, Calif., in it," she recalled, "because I shared the winners' circle with guess that's what he did when her dad in becoming the first he started out. He said I father-and-daughter winners of should walk around with my the same event in NHRA helmet on - like people history. She capped the wouldn't think that was season by being named both weird." Rookie of the Year and Driver of the Year in an NHRA region encompassing Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee.

Despite her success, Ashley never seriously considered a career in the "family business" until her father sent her to Frank Hawley's Drag Racing School as a 16th birthday present. That led her to take auto shop and welding courses as part of her elective "John's game plan is to get her curriculum at Esperanza High in the program next year," School in Yorba Linda, Calif. Antonelli said, "but he's not going to green-light anything Even though she began racing until he's comfortable with her upon her high school ability to handle the car." graduation, her mother insisted If her choice of elective that before she embarked on a courses wasn't sufficient In her rookie season at the full-time career, she had to indication to her father that wheel of the Darien and earn her college degree. As a she might one day want to Meadows dragster, as result, she spent her weekends become involved in the family successor to such current pro racing and her weekdays in business, then certainly her stars as Melanie Troxel, school, ultimately graduating Brandon Bernstein and fourth place finish in national Morgan P a g e | 26 points as a Top Alcohol rookie Last year's movie was a convinced him. parody of "A Christmas Carol" starring the elder Force as Force could not be more Scrooge and crew members proud, or more surprised. and staff as the three ghosts of Christmas and other "I'm a typical father who characters. Its title, "The Bi- always wanted his son to grow Polar Express," was a not-so- BRITTANY FORCE up and drive his race car," said veiled reference to her father's the 13-time Auto Racing All- well-documented mood America selection, "but I don't swings. have any sons, so I always hoped one of my girls would have an interest. Ashley took auto mechanics in high school and I never even did that. It's great having her on tour with me."

As for hobbies, Ashley admits One thing is certain, whether she's a movie fanatic, just like she's making movies or her dad. starring in them, Ashley has her father's full attention and "I go (to the movie theater) at there's absolutely no chance least once a week," she said. he'll be sneaking out of this "Sometimes he goes a couple performance before it's over. times a day. I went with him once and he went to the first half of the movie. Then he got 2013 Auto Club Rookie of the up and left because he told me Year he had already seen the last half. I think he went to see the Teacher Turns Student in end of something else." Castrol EDGE Dragster Nevertheless, she has taken her love for the cinema a step After earning their further. She not only likes to undergraduate degrees, some watch movies, she has aspiring schoolteachers spend demonstrated a talent for several years traveling in producing them. Each year for Europe, Asia and elsewhere the company Christmas party, pursuing graduate studies. she produces a movie that spoofs events and individuals Of course, few do so at speeds in the sport, she included. exceeding 330 miles per hour, which is what sets 26-year-old P a g e | 27 Brittany Force apart from her a wealth of non-traditional Always inclined to follow the peers. stories and anecdotes with road less traveled, Brittany is which to illustrate her lesson not what you expect. She is A graduate of Cal State- plans. her own person, no matter the Fullerton who also studied at circumstances, and that makes New York’s Hunter College, her both a source of pride and Brittany earned her teaching one of frustration for her credentials before deciding to proud father. pursue a master’s degree in a less traditional field of She is simultaneously endeavor: automotive high passionate about racing and performance. conscious of the need to keep her options open. That decision this year has landed the second youngest of One of the stars of the A&E John Force’s four daughters in Network series Driving Force, the cockpit of the 8,000 which documented sister horsepower Castrol EDGE Ashley’s development as a Top Fuel dragster for what Funny Car driver during a promises to be an historic two-year run ending in 2007, 2013 NHRA Mello Yello drag the talented blonde already has racing season. covered the standard course in 3.85 seconds at a finish line She is the third pro driver to speed of more than 320 miles compete in a Castrol-backed per hour. Top Fuel dragster but the first to do so since Pat Austin in Like her father and sisters, 1995. The late Gary Ormsby Brittany is intensely won the NHRA Top Fuel title competitive once she gets to for Castrol GTX in 1989, the track and climbs into the cockpit. Nevertheless, she also At the controls of a race car loves teaching and, right now, capable of zero-to-100 mile she’s content to keep all her per hour acceleration in less “It really is a big honor to be options open while enhancing than one second, Brittany will the first to drive a John Force her reputation as “a student of be subjected to gravitational Racing Top Fuel dragster,” speed.” forces five times those she she said. “I think this is would encounter in a typical something we’re all excited classroom environment. about because it’s new and different. Being able to drive And while she won’t collect a the first JFR Top Fuel dragster degree, per se, the California is still very surreal to me but, native knows that once she with my dad’s support, I’m trades her high speed wheels going to do the best job I can. for ones more suited to the I can’t wait to get started.” school parking lot, she’ll have P a g e | 28 “My plan from the very Driving for Jerry Darien and runs, before and after, which beginning was to go to college Brand Source, she was the No. helps prepare me for next and earn a Bachelor’s Degree 1 qualifier at the 2009 one.” before really pursuing racing,” Supranational at Englishtown, Brittany said. “I earned my N.J., and at the 2010 O’Reilly Although she is eligible to B.A. in English and then did Winternationals at Auto Club compete for the Auto Club’s an extra year to earn my Raceway at Pomona, Calif., Road to the Future Award that teaching credential. I never her home track. goes to the NHRA Rookie of had intentions to go right into the Year, Brittany will focus teaching; I just wanted to get She spent all of 2012 testing in this year on team school finished because I a Top Fuel dragster, logging development. She will knew that if I took a break almost 80 runs on many of the consider anything else a from it, I would never go back. same tracks on which she will bonus. be competing this season. “I will always have teaching to fall back on if things change The three-rail dragster she is down the road,” she said, “but driving this year is powered by right now I am very happy the Ford BOSS 500 engine with where I am and where developed at JFR in things are heading.” collaboration with Ford Racing and, in race trim, it Although she is just beginning will be outfitted with one of her professional racing career, the cockpit canopies Brittany has more dragster popularized by six-time series experience than most of her champion Tony Schumacher. crewmembers including crew chief Dean “Guido” Antonelli “I’m so excited to be working and assistant crew chief Eric with (crew chiefs) ‘Guido’ and Lane, both of whom, to this Eric,” she said. “It seems like “One of my goals this year is point, have worked ‘Guido’ has always been part to really get to know my guys exclusively on Funny Cars. of the winning at JFR. I so that we can move forward remember him working on my as a team,” she said. “That’s By contrast, Brittany never has dad’s car when I was little and one thing my dad always has driven anything but dragsters. he’s the one who taught stressed and that is that it takes Ashley how to drive a Funny a team to succeed. Whatever After earning her Super Comp Car before he was crew chief we do, I want us to do it dragster license under the on dad’s car (2011 and 2012). together.” watchful eye of reigning NHRA Funny Car Champion “A lot of the time I spent Jack Beckman, who was her testing last year was with Eric teacher at Frank Hawley’s Lane and Jimmy Prock from Drag Racing School, she raced ’s Auto Club in the entry-level class, along team. I get along with Eric with sister Courtney, for three very well because he has years before moving up to the always been so patient with Top Alcohol Dragster class. me. We always talk about the P a g e | 29 COURTNEY FORCE approaches her second season with the same enthusiasm she did her first.

“I learned a lot in my rookie season and I know I have a strong team behind me especially with my crew chiefs Ron Douglas and Dan Hood. Ultimately, she finished fifth Plus, I have great teammates in the driver standings, to lean on and provide insight equaling the best ever showing so I’m just going to keep for a Funny Car rookie. learning all I can and see where it takes me.” Driving a Mustang capable of zero-to-320 mile per hour A national spokesperson for acceleration in little more than ’s four seconds, she added a bit Driving Skills for Life of surrealism to her season initiative, the youngest of drag when she secured the Funny racing icon John Force’s four Car championship for Jack daughters wasted little time Beckman by beating Ron 2012 Auto Club Rookie of the last year showing off her Capps in the semifinal round Year competitive skills. of the season finale at Pomona, Calif. In this age of uncertainty, “I always dreamed of racing when few people know what against my dad,” she said, It was a nice payback to they want to do with their lives “and it’s just awesome to Beckman, the Dodge driver and fewer still seem happy finally be out here and be part who, as an instructor at Frank with their choices, 24-year-old of the JFR team. I'm so Hawley’s Drag Racing School, Courtney Force is a welcome thankful for the opportunity taught Courtney, her sisters anomaly. and the support of Traxxas and and her mother Laurie the all my other sponsors. basics of drag racing while When she first realized what signing off on their Super she wanted to do for a living, A semifinalist in just her Comp licenses. the graduate of Cal State- second race, the former high Fullerton couldn’t even spell school cheerleader started Having earned the college “race car driver.” Now, 19 from the front of the Funny degree upon which her years later, she is one – and a Car field two times, took her mother’s blessing was very good one. black-and-red Mustang to four contingent, Courtney now is final rounds and claimed a making the most of her The 2012 recipient of the breakthrough victory in the opportunity to compete at drag Automobile Club of Southern O’Reilly Northwest Nationals racing’s highest level. California’s Road to the at Seattle, Wash., beating 2011 Future Award as the NHRA series champ Matt Hagan in Her preparation for a pro Rookie of the Year, the driver the final. career included a six-year of the Traxxas Ford Mustang apprenticeship in Super Comp P a g e | 30 and Top Alcohol dragsters Obviously, she is on her way. which 100 “agents” drove followed by private tutoring in Ford Fiestas and then shared sister ’s “I was somewhat of a tomboy their experiences on various informal “Drag Racing 101" when I was young and my best national social media class and a full season of friend was a guy who was platforms. testing in a Funny Car. always taking things apart and putting them back together,” Nevertheless, there never was Courtney said. “I hung around a question in her mind that she with him a lot because I eventually would be in her thought that was really present this position. interesting. I actually wanted to race Jr. Dragsters, but my “I grew up knowing I wanted mom said she didn’t want me to be a race car driver,” she racing at the expense of said. “I just knew that’s what paying attention to school. I wanted to do. I always loved traveling to the races to watch “I grew up going out to the my dad. We have pictures of racetrack whenever I could,” me at the races in the winner’s she said. “I would help dad circle with a pacifier in my get into his driving suit and mouth. gloves and that helped me to On the track, she also learn what drag racing was all mimicked her sister’s success “I’d draw pictures when I was about.” by driving one of veteran Jerry a little girl of my dad, Don Darien’s race cars to a Top Prudhomme and their race Her racing aspirations began Alcohol Dragster victory in cars,” she said. “I’d draw to fast track when she attended 2009 at Seattle, Wash., the them with all the sponsors’ Frank Hawley’s Drag Racing site, ironically, of her first pro logos and make them look as School. win, as well. real as possible. I’d always draw myself in the other lane “What was funny is that I was The similarities between her racing my dad. driving 160 mile-per-hour career path and her sisters are Super Comp Dragsters, but not coincidental. “It was probably when I was back home my folks wouldn’t around five (that I knew what I let me drive on the freeway,” “Ashley was a big influence wanted to do),” said the she laughed. on me wanting to race. I went former high school to Cal State-Fullerton, which cheerleader. “Ever since Like Ashley, who first leapt to is where she went, and I got a kindergarten, my dad would prominence outside the race degree similar to hers. She bring his Funny Car and trailer car when she won AOL has a degree in Radio and to my school and all the kids Sports’ inaugural “World’s Television; mine is in in my class would sit in his Hottest Athlete” contest Communications. When I Castrol Funny Car and see (2007), Courtney similarly heard Ashley was going to what it was like. I knew I sped into the spotlight after start racing, I knew that’s what wanted to be just like my being named “Top Agent” in I had always wanted to do so I dad.” the Fiesta Movement, a 2010 said, ‘I’ll just copy everything Ford marketing program in P a g e | 31 she does.’ I’ve really tried to is something I wouldn’t want follow in her footsteps.” to trade for another series.

Statuesque like her mother, “I don’t want to miss out on Courtney was one of the stars the power of these 8,000 of Driving Force, the real-life horsepower race cars. They TV series that tracked go straight, but don’t be Ashley’s development as a fooled. Sometimes they do Funny Car driver and aired for turn and my dad says that’s two seasons on A&E Network. when you learn to drive.”

“My first full pass in a fuel Funny Car was the best feeling ever,” Courtney enthused. “I knew at that point that I could do it. I felt the accomplishment of getting past the finish line. It didn’t matter what my reaction time was or my elapsed time or speed. I got to the other end and I knew, ‘I can build on that.’ JAMESTOWN CLASSIC

CAR CLUB NEWS “It’s been a little nd Next meeting April 22 at the overwhelming,” she said of all Jamestown Vocational Center the fan and media attention that began even before her at 7:00 pm (see the debut. “I’m just excited to Jamestown Sun the day of for finally be able to race a Funny verification). Car. I always dreamed of The only events going on at going 300 miles per hour and this moment are the planning it’s just awesome to finally be out here racing.” and coordination of the “2014 SUMMER CAR SHOW IN THE th Like her dad, she has no PARK” scheduled for July 5 at interest in trying to master McElroy Park. oval track or . The Jamestown Classic Car

Club meets every 4th Tuesday “One cylinder on the BOSS and membership is only 500 in my Traxxas Mustang $20.00 per family or single. equals the power in a whole Call President Jack Meikle at NASCAR engine,” she said. 701-252-4246 / 701-320-4246 “The fact that I’m racing one or email at [email protected] of the fastest cars on the planet or call Vice President Craig Gaier at 701-269-8150 or P a g e | 32 email at [email protected] Mind you, this article is not Appetizers were Calamari, for club information written to slam and business, Deep Fried Pickles, and Fried but it is written to make the Bread. Our Main Course was public aware of services the Ribeye & Sirloin Steak. The Jamestown area residence are desert was Various Pies. getting. MEET & GREET: Evaluations are based on a 0 to 1. Convey the feeling that 5 rating. A number 5 is the you were a valued best rating and a 0 rating is customer: area needing work. There is a 15 points 50.00% total of 600 points to be 2. Seat you and deliver scored. 25 points per line and menus in a courteous there are 20 fields that are manner: evaluated. Again, these 16 points 53.33% evaluations are not for the 3. Was the staff properly intention for getting anybody attired? 20 points 66.67% AROUND MILL HILL fired or to slam a business. It is a fact finding mission. SERVER: CHIEFTAIN 1. Suggest a beverage or CONFERENCE CENTER specialty drink: 12 points 40.00% 2. Appear to be knowledgeable about the menu items: 14 Points 46.67% 3. Remain attentive Around Mill Hill is going to throughout the dining be a monthly evaluation of experience: area businesses. If you are a 10 Points 33.33% paid member of the JVSM and 4. Mention/Offer would like to take part in this Appetizer? Options: program, please let me know 5 points 16.67% [email protected] and

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19 Points 63.33% to sit anywhere. The evaluation group had to move Another busy month at the tables together to DESERT: Elks in March with the accommodate our group with 1. Mention/Offer Desert? Elkettes “Souper” Saturday no help or offer to help from Options: card party that kicked the the employees. 17 Points 56.67% month off on the 1st to 2. Was the order correct, Without getting into a rant coordinate with the Super complete and properly let’s just say our service Bowl. Next we had “Early Bird prepared? desired attention. If we didn’t Sign-Up” party night on the 6th 24 Points 80.00% ask it wasn’t offered. that was enjoyed by one and all with snacks and more for GENERAL: Our steaks on the other hand those members who paid 1. Did they appear to be were fantastic (if you like your busy and efficient in steaks rare to medium rare). If their dues early that night. their work? Almost 50 members attended. we ordered the steaks medium th 16 Points 53.33% to medium-well guess how The 36 annual “Runnin O’ 2. Were the tables they came to us. Yup, that’s The Green” was another huge properly bussed? right … Medium to bloody success, with proceeds raised 21 Points 70.00% rare. to hopefully have enough to 3. Did the bartenders donate $500.00 to each of 20 appear neat and Thanks for the interesting cancer patients and professional in their experience. Wow. $20,000.00 to Camp Grassick. appearance? Chieftain Conference Center Thank You everyone who 16 Points 53.33% aided, contributed and 4. Did the overall dining … You get 2 Stars out of 4. participated in the Run and a experience meet or special BIG THANK YOU again exceed your expectations: to Larry “Knobby” Knoblich for 16 Points 53.33% his unselfish and unyielding 5. Were there enough time and effort he puts into employees to take care this every year. of guests? To top the month off the 23 Points 76.67% Annual Installation of Officers P a g e | 34 night was held March 27th Remember this is your Elks Andy Switzer had a pretty with a premier dinner served Lodge and any and all ideas to legitimate reason for never up by the finest chefs in town make us more successful will previously pursuing a car as (Lil Dixon, Jackie Tews, Nicki be appreciated, as well as nice as his stunning 1931 Mundt, Jolene Biloff and anyone who would like to Lincoln Model K sedan. He crew), a big thank you for join. Just stop by at 324-2nd simply didn’t think he could your efforts, as I know Ave SW in Jamestown (south ever afford it. everyone couldn’t remember side door under the sign). “I thought a car like this would having such a great meal There is a room available for have been out of my price outside of the home in ages. various functions with full range, so I didn’t even look at Sorry that we couldn’t have kitchen amenities and you anything like this,” admits the had more to go around as it may contact Scott Anderson Gulfport, Miss., resident. was rsvp. The new officers are at 252-3642 or Craig Gaier at as follows: Exalted Ruler-Craig 269-8150 for any and all Gaier, Leading Knight-Merle questions. Weatherly, Lecturing Knight- Steve “Skovy” Jaskoviak, Esquire-Dr. Bradly Skari, Chaplin-Rhonda Newton, Inner Guard-William “Bill” Lipetzky, Tiler-Frank DeBolt, Secretary-Tammy Kastet, Treasurer-Harold Bensch and new Trustee-Neil “Tex” Weatherly.

Upcoming events for April will be Initiation Night on April Back when the Lincoln was th new 83 years ago, a lot of 10 . We have 10 new members to be initiated and other people no doubt felt the hope they can all make it. On CLASSIC CAR SUMMARY: same way. At about $4,600 the 19th the Jamestown Parks without any extras, the all-new 1931 LINCOLN MODEL K Lincoln Model K was at the & Recreations along with the very top of the ladder when it Elks will hold their annual came to American cars. It was Easter egg hunt for the kids about $500 more than a new and there will be prizes V-12 sedan from Cadillac — including bikes given away one of its few true competitors (for more on the details go to in the luxury car market at the the City of Jamestown’s time. You could buy seven website or find out from the Model A Fords for the price of “Easter Bunny” at Buffalo Mall Story and photos by Brian Earnest (Old Cars the big Lincoln and still have th on the 17 and 18th). Weekly) some money left. P a g e | 35 Actually, a Model A was what and when I went back to go even dust it off. That’s how Switzer had in mind when he finalize everything the sales good of shape it was in.” was snooping around for a car manager had another buyer two years ago. “I have a bunch who was offering $5,000 for A year later, the Lincoln of cars — I have 9 — but I me to walk away from it.” earned another honor, being wanted a Model A,” Switzer chosen as the cover car for the said. “The oldest car I had at He couldn’t give up on his annual Old Cars Weekly the time was a ’36 Cord. I’ve chance to own one of just 211 Calendar. “It’s impressive. It’s sold it since then, but I wanted of the first-year Model K like driving an aircraft a four-door Model A.” Model 204-A two-window carrier,” he says. “Wherever it town sedans ever built, goes, it catches attention… however. Switzer became just My son is 6-foot-7, and a the third owner of the car. He couple of my cars he can’t had to wait a bit for the even get into, but this one he Lincoln to make its way to fits in without a problem.” Mississippi, but it arrived in grand style. “Not many Indeed, pre-World War II Lincolns were all large cars, delivery trucks come down to southern Mississippi where we and they became truly jumbo- That was before he took a visit are. We finally got it on a sized when the legendary with his grandson to the Volo truck one night and it was Model K series arrived for the Museum in Volo, Ill. “I was supposed to be delivered, but 1931 model year. The Model up visiting and we’ve hit every Hurricane Isaac hit so they had K came with a new chassis car museum in a three- or to bump it off the truck. Then, that featured a whopping 145 four-state area, so we decided about 3-1/2 weeks later, Joe inches between the axles — a to go to Volo again and we Nemechek’s NASCAR trailer jump of 9 inches over the old found it there,” he said. “I saw delivered it! It was some kind Model L offerings. The it and said, ‘This has got to be of sublease deal, but this big chassis had six cross members, it!’ The sales manager pulled fancy NASCAR trailer rode on 7 x 19-inch tires it out and we drove it and we showed up with it and we (down from 20 inches were going down the road rolled the car out of it. It was previously) and carried cars doing 60 [mph] with no pretty cool.” with a much lower profile than qualms. It was great.” ever before.

Switzer didn’t take long to Switzer didn’t wait to take the mull the purchase over, and Lincoln to its first car event. “I Customers could choose from that turned out to be a good took that car to a car show that a selection of factory bodies, thing. He wasn’t the only first weekend and won best of or go with fully custom interested customer. “I put show,” he laughs. “I didn’t coachwork from major names some money down that day such as Dietrich, Judkins, P a g e | 36 LeBaron and Willoughby. The originally by a man from you push the other side, you radiator shell had a new Philadelphia, who apparently get a more mellow sound. peaked design, and dual horns took good care of it for about They called it the Town and were mounted next to four decades before it went to Country Horn.” redesigned bowl-shaped a second owner, who had an headlamps in front. impressive collection of Switzer has changed the oil Lincolns in Lake Geneva, Wis. and rebuilt the fuel pump since The refinements and “I’m the third owner,” Switzer he acquired the Lincoln. improvements were noted. “[The two previous Beyond that, about the only everywhere on the 1931 owners] had it about 40 years thing he’s done to the car is Lincolns. The big 384.8-cid L- each, apparently. The second put on some LED turn signals head eight got a new guy totally restored it … That and brake lights for safety Stromberg carburetor, separate was about 20 years ago.” reasons. “I almost got run over generator and starter, and a one night,” he chuckled. mechanical fuel pump. The new Bendix Duo-Servo four- wheel brakes provided much- improved stopping power, and hydraulic shock absorbers were new on all four corners.

The Model K series was an attempt to resuscitate sagging Switzer received the original Lincoln sales. Lincoln was not bill of sale that came with the “It just drives great. The alone in its struggles, as many car. It outlined, among other engine is as quiet as can be. other U.S. automakers started things, the add-ons and When I first got it and started feeling the suffocating squeeze options that came with an it up, I couldn’t even tell if the of the Great Depression by already impressive machine. engine was running. It has an 1930. Lincoln attempted to “He ordered it with every aluminum block with that change that momentum with option, I think,” Switzer said. black porcelain head, and the all-new Model K, but as “It had whitewalls on both everything else on the engine impressive as the cars were, it side mounts. It had the is pretty much chromed. I was was rare to see a new Lincoln different-color fenders and sun told that’s how it came from rolling down the street. Only visors… One thing that really the factory… You can’t 3,540 cars were built for the catches a lot of attention is the believe it has mechanical model year. dual horns. When you push the brakes, for how well it stops. horn to the left you get kind of A lot of people tell me it’s a Switzer’s gorgeous green an ‘ahh-ooga’ horn, and when Model A on steroids. That’s sedan was purchased

P a g e | 37 about what it is. And I think CLASSIC CAR SUMMARY: painted the top of this car that everything works on it but the 1947 CHEVROLET darker brown. It wasn’t that clock.” AEROSEDAN way originally, but it matched the Sportmaster that we have. The odometer shows 76,000- If it hadn’t been those same plus miles, and Switzer colors, I probably wouldn’t believes that number is have been interested in it.” accurate and the clock hasn’t “turned over.” “It had very light use,” he says. “For its age, I don’t think it was ever driven a lot.”

Story and photos by Brian Earnest (Old Cars Of the 211 four-door town Weekly) sedans built with Lincoln factory bodies for 1931, There were plenty of reasons Switzer says only three have for Richard Black to fall for been accounted for. That his 1947 Chevrolet Fleetline Black spotted the car for sale makes him even more Aerosedan when he first laid in California in 2008, kept an determined to preserve and eyes on it. The vehicle was eye on it for a few months, care for a car that he feels wonderfully authentic, in great then finally pulled the trigger especially lucky to own. shape, and featured the in the fall of that year. He endearing 1940s fastback body hadn’t seen the car in person, “The car was pretty much style that is seemingly as big but he had seen enough perfect when I got it,” he says, of a hit today as it was then. pictures and asked enough “and I just want it to stay that The car’s dealer add-on questions that he felt good way.” Country Club “woodie” kit about the deal. made the car different from other Fleetlines of the era, and “Since then, I’ve been together with the two-tone working on a lot of little things brown paint scheme, it was a on it,” he says. “It’s pretty stand out in any old car crowd. much done now. I like things really nice, you know … and I But Richard and his wife, like them original. I want them Nancy, had another reason to to look as they were.” be attracted to the Aerosedan: It was a near-perfect running In this case, “as they were” mate for a car they already could be interpreted a couple owned. of ways. Black’s Aerosedan came with a single-color Sport “I have a [1947] four-door Beige paint job and no wood Fleetline Sportmaster sedan on the exterior. The “woodie” painted this same color look came from the Country combination, and I thought it Club trim package that was would make a good stable not actually a General Motors mate to that car,” says Black, a product. The package was

resident of New Castle, Pa. produced by Engineered “At some point somebody P a g e | 38 Enterprises, a firm in Detroit, Carolina because there are still and sold through select the remains of an inspection Chevrolet dealers. The sticker on the windshield from $149.50 kit was available only 1948 in North Carolina,” he for 1947 and ’48 Chevrolet said. “Somehow it ended up in Aerosedan, convertibles and California… A door jamb two-door sedans. (It was later service sticker shows the reproduced by a hobbyist.) mileage was 25,260 when the Owners who wanted their oil was changed on June 13, With or without the woodie Fleetline to have the woodie 1988. We have driven the car kit, the Fleetline Aerosedan look found on competitive 2,200 miles since acquiring in was still a top-of-the-line models such as the Ford October 2008. The odometer offering for Chevrolet in 1947. Sportsman and pricier now reads 30,175. I would From 1946-’48, the Fleetline Chrysler Town and Country have to think the odometer is was a sub-series of the had to be sure of their choice, on its second trip around Fleetmaster line. The though. Dealers had to drill 72 judging by the condition of Fleetmaster series included holes into the car to install the items like the worn spring two- and four-door sedans, a kit, so simply removing the shackles, worn kingpins, etc. sport coupe, convertible and wood if you changed your — all of which we have four-door wagon. The mind wasn’t really an option. replaced.” Fleetline sub-series included only the Aerosedan and Sportmaster sedan — both of which the Blacks own.

The two-door Fleetline Aerosedan, with its racy fastback styling, proved to be the most popular Chevrolet for 1947 with 159,407 built at a base price of $1,313. For that, “The darker parts aren’t buyers received the additional actually wood. I don’t want to Fleetline trim that included call it contact paper, but that’s three horizontal bars on the kind of what it is,” Black “suitcase” fenders. Like all noted. “The real wood on this Chevrolet passenger cars, one is beautiful, but at some Fleetlines were equipped with point it looks like it’s been re- the 90-hp 216.5-cid overhead- done. I have to believe that in valve six-cylinder mated to a the last 10 years or so, three-speed manual somebody took it off and put it transmission, semi-elliptical back on.” leaf springs and four-wheel drum brakes. In addition to the Black hasn’t been able to trace Country Club trim, Black’s car a lot of his Aero sedan’s was outfitted with driving history, but the car has clearly lamps, backup lamps, turn done some traveling. “It signals, vent window screens, started out life in North fold-down trunk guard, wing P a g e | 39 tips on the rear bumper, older paint job. It has a few bias-ply tires, and they were radiator overflow tank, cracks and stuff in it. It’s not all cracked. I don’t think it had vacuum-assisted shifting, an bad, but not as nice as the been driven much in recent umbrella holder and GM tissue top.” years.” dispenser.

Black now rotates a set of original-style bias-play tires with a set of radials between his two 1947 Chevrolets. “I Much of the work Black has change them back and forth. It done to the car has been minor depends on which one I’m upgrades and touch-ups. The using and what we’re doing car didn’t need any major with it.” work when he got it and so far

has pretty much been trouble- Black has made sure neither of Black found his Aerosedan did free. “I re-grained the dash and his ’47s — or the award- not have the correct accessory garnish moldings inside… I winning 1950 Ford Crestliner heater when he bought the car, put in new window fuzzes and he also owns — has become but he has since found and window channels. They were trailer queens. They all get installed the correct unit. all just worn out — they had driven regularly for more than never been replaced. The just a little exercise. “I drive it. The Scout Brown over Sport engine compartment needed That’s what I got it for. I don’t Beige paint was a GM factory detailing very badly, so I did a have any reservations about combination, but is not lot of work with that. The getting in it and going on a original to Black’s car. “The wheels had been repainted at 100-mile jaunt,” he says. “It’s top has been repainted, and some point in time and they been to the Glenmoor probably more recently than had painted over the (Gathering) … I got invited to the bottom,” Black noted. pinstriping, so I had to redo the Milwaukee Masterpiece — “The bottom you can tell is an the wheels. And it had old but I did have to trailer it there P a g e | 40 because of the distance … I’ve CLASSIC CAR SUMMARY: tell that ordering the specially been taking it to some of the equipped car was an exciting local shows around here and I 1966 CHEVROLET moment for Len Stevenson,” never worry about driving it.” IMPALA SS 427 Schmeisser said. “Lowering a 427 into his car meant that the regular flow of the Chevy assembly line was going to be interrupted, and the black- with-red-interior choice was also a custom-order deal.” The mid 1960s was one of the Story and photos by John Gunnell (Old Cars best eras for a buyer to order a Weekly) car just the way he or she wanted it. Unlike today, On Oct. 27, 1965, Leonard manufacturers allowed buyers When the car appears at hobby Stevenson ordered a Tuxedo to individually order options, gatherings, Black knows his Black 1966 Impala SS hardtop and the list of options was will likely wind up explaining from McGinnis Chevrolet in quickly growing. the Aerosedan’s “woodie” Scotland, S.D. Stevenson Manufacturers were also look. There aren’t any records wanted the car equipped his anxious to sell cars since of how many cars got the own way, notably with a red 1960-1962 had been relatively Country Club package or how vinyl bucket seat interior and lean years for auto sales. many remain, but it clearly the big 427-cid V-8 and a isn’t many. “The ones with the personalized assortment of wood sides, I don’t think I’ve factory features, such as a ever been to a show where one Turbo Hydra-Matic, special was there. I had seen pictures front and rear suspension, of them, but I don’t think I push-button radio with rear ever saw one in person until I speaker, tinted glass and 14×6- got this one,” he said. inch wheels. “They are out there, but you A hand-written document just don’t see them around. A showing a breakdown of the “A car buyer in 1965 could lot of people who have them equipment Stevenson order unusual combinations of don’t drive them and don’t handpicked is in the luxury, convenience and show them.” possession of the car’s current performance equipment,” owner, Jody Schmeisser, Schmeisser explained. “It was owner of Pit Pal Products. possible — and not that This document, which is expensive — to throw in some endorsed with Stevenson’s excitement under the hood, signature, shows he put a cash and some of the equipment deposit of $2,000 down on the combinations were very rare,” car he wanted. Schmeisser said. Chevrolet production records show that “With a deposit like this made only 3,247 full-size Chevys back in that day, you can just

P a g e | 41 received the L36 code 427-cid exterior repaint; but otherwise, He says it looks runs and V-8 with 390 hp. it would fall in that category. drives like all of its caretakers have all taken care of it over Today, Stevenson’s custom- the years. ordered pride and joy is one of several full-size, big-block Chevys in Schmeisser collection. “I have always taken the serious approach and pride in ” Schmeisser said the car’s collecting fully documented, door jambs still have their numbers-matching 1966 full- original GM paint, as do the size 427 Chevys,” he said. “I inner door structures and eventually started specializing inside of the trunk and hood. The interior is in great shape in tracking down hard-to-find “I do not have any records of from the color down to its parts for them and restoring when this car was repainted,” condition. The upholstery and such cars.” he said, “but although it was trim are original, and it even refinished at some point in its has correctly dated seat belts history, the repaint is really and the small chrome bullets hard to detect.” at the end of the seat piping remain. The push-button AM radio comes in loud and clear, and the original elliptical antenna is intact. The center console is perfect without cracks. Schmeisser keeps Stevenson’s car in a climate-controlled environment where it sits next to similar cars. He carefully The car’s odometer reading of researches and documents 19,942 miles appears to be each vehicle because he feels correct, according to it’s important to keep the Schmeisser. “I have chain of ownership intact. documents that show South Dakota used a vehicle safety “The car is a complete, tag that recorded the mileage numbers-matching factory each time the car was safety muscle car that was born with The car could pass the South inspected. These show that its 427-cid, 390-hp engine,” Dakota safety inspection with very few miles were ever put Schmeisser said. “From the flying colors even today. For on this car.” front pulley to the instance, all the bulbs function transmission to the cover on Schmeisser says that he the way they should, and even the 12-bolt rear end, the car is assumes the Super Sport was though they aren’t used today, authentic. I cannot really call “always loved and appreciated the heater and defroster work. this Super Sport a survivor, throughout its life.” Amazingly, all the rubber since it has had a stunning parts from the A-pillar seals to P a g e | 42 the door window felts and Home Depot or an auto parts trunk seals are genuine GM- store and see RUST-OLEUM installed items with a nice skin engine paint being promoted, seal. you’ll see photos of this car’s engine.” CALENDAR OF EVENTS NHRA Mello Yellow Drag All of the bright work on the 04/11 Racing Impala also remains in to Zmax Dragways excellent original condition. 04/13 Charlotte, North Carolina The sheet metal is original 04/12 Car Show to Prime Steel Car Show with appropriate factory gaps. 04/13 Grand Forks, North Dakota Original LOF etching James Valley Street Machines identifies the factory window Monthly Meeting. 7:00 04/16 Watch the "RUMBLER" for glass, and the car has correctly meeting times. dated mirrors. Jamestown, North Dakota Jamestown Drag Racing Association 04/17 Monthly Meeting. 7:00 at the Fire Hall Jamestown, North Dakota NHRA Mello Yellow Drag 04/25 Racing to Royal Purple Raceway 04/27 Houston, Texas 04/25 NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing to Firebird Raceway 04/27 Boise, Idaho Schmeisser is honest about the 04/25 NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Chevy’s minor issues. “The to rear trunk lock key is not the 04/27 Clermont, Indiana Oahe Speedway original one, the clock doesn’t 04/26 NHRA Chassis Cert and keep running, the engine coil Test-N-Tune is not the original one and the Pierre, South Dakota Oahe Speedway air cleaner housing is not the 04/27 Class Races original,” he admits. Pierre, South Dakota 05/01 NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing According to Schmeisser, his to Dragways car was assembled in St Louis, 05/04 Commerce, Georgia 05/02 NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Mo., during the third week of to November 1965. He has 05/04 Ennis, Texas photo-documented the date Jamestown Speedway Test-N-Tune codes on the car’s assemblies. 05/03 All Race Cars The car is even a bit of a Classes Welcome celebrity outside of Jamestown, North Dakota Jamestown Speedway Schmeisser garage. 05/10 Season Opener Jamestown, North Dakota “RUST-OLEUM products Oahe Speedway picked this car to use in their 05/10 Speedway Shootouts Pierre, South Dakota enamel engine paint Oahe Speedway campaign,” Schmeisser said. 05/11 Class Races “If you go into a Lowes or Papa Murphy's 100MPH Club Pierre, South Dakota P a g e | 43 05/10 Top End Dragways 06/01 Englishtown, New Jersey 06/15 Fallon, Nevada & Bracket Weekend 05/30 Car Show 06/13 NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing 05/11 Sabin, Minnesota & Devils Run to Lebanon Valley Dragways James Valley Street Machines 06/01 Devils Lake, North Dakota 06/15 West Lebanon, New York Monthly Meeting. 7:00 Jamestown Speedway Car Show & Rally 05/14 Jamestown Truck Plaza 05/31 Regular Race - High School 06/14 Bridge City Cruisers Hamburgers, Brats, Salad, Soft Graduates Night Rally in the Valley Drink Free (While supply lasts) Jamestown, North Dakota Valley City, North Dakota Jamestown, North Dakota 05/31 NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing 06/14 Top End Dragways Jamestown Drag Racing to Brainerd International & Bracket Weekend Association 06/01 Brainerd, Minnesota 06/15 Sabin, Minnesota 05/15 Monthly Meeting. 7:00 06/06 NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing NHRA Mello Yellow Drag 06/19 at the Fire Hall to No Problem Raceway Park Racing Jamestown, North Dakota 06/08 Belle Rose, Louisiana to New England Dragways NHRA Mello Yellow Drag 06/22 Epping, New Hampshire 05/16 06/06 NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Racing to Mission Raceway Jamestown Drag Racing to Atlanta Dragways 06/08 Mission, British Columbia Association 05/18 Atlanta, Georgia 06/06 NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing 06/19 Monthly Meeting. 7:00 05/16 NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing to at the Fire Hall to Summit Racing Motorsports 06/08 Joliet, Illinois Jamestown, North Dakota 05/18 Norwalk, Ohio 06/06 Rod Run 06/20 MSRA 05/16 NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing to Classtiques Rod Run 2014 to Back to the 50's to Spokane County Raceway 06/07 Mandan, North Dakota 06/22 St. Paul, Minnesota 05/18 Spokane, Washington Jamestown Speedway 06/20 NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Jamestown Speedway 06/07 NLRA Late Models to Bristol Dragways 05/17 Regular Race No Street Stocks 06/21 Bristol, Tennessee Jamestown, North Dakota Jamestown, North Dakota 06/20 NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing 05/17 NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Oahe Speedway to Woodburn Dragstrip to SRCA Dragstrip 06/07 Oahe Speedway Shootouts 06/22 Woodburn, Oregon 05/18 Great Bend, Kansas Old Skool Drags 06/20 NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing 05/23 NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Pierre, South Dakota to Osage Casino Tulsa Raceway to James Valley Street Machines 06/22 Tulsa, Oklahoma 05/25 Reading, Monthly Meeting. 7:00 Oahe Speedway Oahe Speedway 06/07 Dakota Engine Builders 06/21 Bully Dog "Showdown on the 05/23 NHRA Street Legal Drags Hog Roast - Food & Soft to River" Shootouts & Quick 8 Pierre, South Dakota Drink Free (While supply lasts) 06/22 Pierre, South Dakota NHRA Mello Yellow Drag Jamestown, North Dakota NHRA Mello Yellow Drag 05/23 06/26 Racing Oahe Speedway Racing to Heartland Park Topeka 06/08 Coca Cola Points Race #3 to Route 66 Raceway 05/25 Topeka, Kansas Pierre, South Dakota 06/29 Chicago, Illinois Jamestown Speedway Car Show Jamestown Drag Racing 05/24 Advantage RV Mods 06/08 Buggies-N-Blues Association No Bombers Mandan, North Dakota 06/26 Monthly Meeting. 7:00 Jamestown, North Dakota 06/13 NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing at the Fire Hall 05/24 Top End Dragways to Bandimere Speedway Jamestown, North Dakota & Bracket Weekend 06/15 Denver, Colorado Jamestown Speedway 05/25 Sabin, Minnesota NHRA Mello Yellow Drag 06/28 Regular Race 06/13 Oahe Speedway Racing Jamestown, North Dakota 05/24 Oahe Speedway Shootouts to Bristol Dragways 06/28 Top End Dragways Pierre, South Dakota 06/15 Bristol, Tennessee & Bracket Weekend Oahe Speedway Jamestown Speedway 06/29 Sabin, Minnesota 05/25 Coca Cola Points Race #1 06/14 Regular Race - Armed NHRA Mello Yellow Drag 07/03 with Quick 8 Forces Night Racing Pierre, South Dakota Jamestown, North Dakota to Summits Motorsports Park Oahe Speedway Oahe Speedway 07/06 Norwalk, Ohio 05/26 Coca Cola Points Race #2 6th Annual Dave Graves Jamestown Speedway with Quick 8 06/14 Memorial Corvette/Mustang 07/05 Fair Race - Fireworks Pierre, South Dakota Rally and AutoCross Jamestown, North Dakota NHRA Mello Yellow Drag Pierre, South Dakota Oahe Speedway 05/29 Racing 06/14 NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing 07/05 Oahe Speedway Shootouts to Old Bridge Township Raceway to Top Gun Raceway Pierre, South Dakota P a g e | 44 Oahe Speedway 07/24 Monthly Meeting. 7:00 08/13 Buffalo City Rotisserie Grille Coca Cola Points Race #4 at the Fire Hall Hamburgers, Brats, Salad, Soft 07/06 with 2014 Summit Racing Jamestown, North Dakota Drink Free (While supply lasts) "King of the Track" Jamestown Drag Racing Jamestown, North Dakota Pierre, South Dakota Association NHRA Mello Yellow Drag 08/14 Jamestown Drag Racing 07/25 Monthly Meeting. 7:00 Racing Association at the Fire Hall to Brainerd International 07/10 Monthly Meeting. 7:00 Jamestown, North Dakota 08/17 Brainerd, Minnesota at the Fire Hall 07/25 NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing 08/15 NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Jamestown, North Dakota to Heartland Park Topeka to Cecil County Dragways Jamestown Speedway 07/26 Topeka, Kansas 08/17 Rising Sun, Maryland IMCA Mod Tour with NHRA Mello Yellow Drag 08/15 NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing 07/25 07/11 WISSOTA MW Mods - Racing to No track points for MW Mods to 08/17 Seattle, Washington Jamestown, North Dakota 07/27 Sonoma, California Jamestown Speedway Jamestown Speedway Jamestown Speedway Regular Races PLUS Legends 07/12 Regular Race 07/26 WISSOTA Amsoil Qualifier 08/16 MW Mods off for King of Jamestown, North Dakota Jamestown, North Dakota the dirt 07/11 NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Jamestown Drag Racing Jamestown, North Dakota to Woodburn Dragstrip 07/26 Association Oahe Speedway 07/13 Woodburn, Oregon & Airport Drag Racing 08/16 Oahe Speedway Shootouts 07/12 Top End Dragways 07/27 Saturday & Sunday with Quick 8 & Bracket Weekend Jamestown, North Dakota Pierre, South Dakota 07/13 Sabin, Minnesota 07/26 Top End Dragways Oahe Speedway James Valley Street Machines & Bracket Weekend Richmond Gear Weekend Monthly Meeting. 7:00 07/27 Sabin, Minnesota 08/17 Warrior Coca Cola Points 07/16 Two Rivers Inn 07/31 NDSRA Race #7 with Quick 8 Hamburgers, Brats, Salad, Soft to Western Canadian Nationals Pierre, South Dakota Drink Free (While supply lasts) 08/03 Superrun 08/22 NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Jamestown, North Dakota Saskatoon, Canada to Beech Bend Raceway Park Jamestown Drag Racing 08/01 NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing 08/24 Bowling Green, Kentucky Association to Atco Dragways 08/22 NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing 07/17 Monthly Meeting. 7:00 08/03 Atco, New Jersey to Heartland Park Topeka at the Fire Hall Oahe Speedway 08/23 Topeka, Kansas Jamestown, North Dakota 08/01 NHRA Street Legal Drags Jamestown Speedway NHRA Mello Yellow Drag Pierre, South Dakota 08/23 Season Championship 07/18 Racing NHRA Mello Yellow Drag Jamestown, North Dakota 08/01 to Bandimere Speedway Racing 08/23 Top End Dragways 07/20 Denver, Colorado to Pacific Raceways & Bracket Weekend 07/18 NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing 08/03 Seattle, Washington 08/24 Sabin, Minnesota to National Trail Raceway Jamestown Speedway NHRA Mello Yellow Drag 08/27 07/20 Columbus, Ohio 08/02 NLRA Late Models Racing 07/18 NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing All Classes Running to Lucas Oil Raceway to Sonoma Raceway Jamestown, North Dakota 09/01 Indianapolis, Indiana 07/20 Sonoma, California 08/08 NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Oahe Speedway 07/18 NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing to 08/28 9th Annual "Thunder on the to New England Dragways 08/09 St. Louis, Missouri Prairie", Downtown Pierre 07/20 Epping, New Hampshire Oahe Speedway Pierre, South Dakota Oahe Speedway 08/02 Oahe Speedway Shootouts Oahe Speedway 07/18 NHRA Street Legal Drags with Junior Points Race #5 08/29 NHRA Street Legal Drags Pierre, South Dakota Pierre, South Dakota & Test-N-Tune Oahe Speedway Oahe Speedway Pierre, South Dakota 07/19 Oahe Speedway Shootouts 08/03 Coca Cola Race #6 Oahe Speedway with "Countdown to the Jam" with 2013 National Dragster 08/30 Coca Cola Points Race #8 Pierre, South Dakota Challenge with Summit Racing Oahe Speedway Pierre, South Dakota Equipment Junior Drag 07/20 Coca Cola Points Race #5 08/09 Top End Dragways Racing League Challenge with 4th Annual "Junior Jam" & Bracket Weekend presented by Proseal of Pierre, South Dakota 08/10 Sabin, Minnesota Mitchell. Jamestown Drag Racing James Valley Street Machines Pierre, South Dakota Association Monthly Meeting. 7:00 Oahe Speedway P a g e | 45 08/31 Coca Cola Points Race #9 & Bracket Weekend SWAP SHOP Pierre, South Dakota 09/28 Sabin, Minnesota Oahe Speedway NHRA Mello Yellow Drag 10/02 09/01 Coca Cola Points Race #10 Racing Pierre, South Dakota to Maple Grove Raceway 09/05 NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing 10/05 Reading, Pennsylvania to Old Bridge Township Raceway 10/03 NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing 09/07 Englishtown, New Jersey to JEGS Pacific Nationals 09/05 NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing 10/05 Las Vegas, Nevada to Tri-State Raceway 10/03 NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing 09/07 Earlville, Iowa to Thunder Valley Raceway 09/12 NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing 10/05 Noble, Oklahoma to Thunder Road Raceway Oahe Speedway 09/14 Gillian, Louisiana 10/04 Fall Finale Shootout Races NHRA Mello Yellow Drag with 2014 Papa Murphy's 09/12 Racing 100 MPH Club. to Zmax Dragways Pierre, South Dakota 09/14 Charlotte, North Carolina Oahe Speedway James Valley Street Machines 10/05 Fall Finale Oahe Speedway Monthly Meeting. 7:00 Class Races Swap Shop ads are taken from Pierre, South Dakota 09/17 Jamestown Truck Plaza James Valley Street Machine Hamburgers, Brats, Salad, Soft 10/10 NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Drink Free (While supply lasts) to Auto-Plus Raceway members, NDSRA “Street Jamestown, North Dakota 10/12 Gainesville, Florida Talking” magazine, “Cars for Sale NHRA Mello Yellow Drag 10/11 Top End Dragways in Jamestown” on Facebook. 09/18 Racing & Bracket Weekend to Texas Motorplex 10/12 Sabin, Minnesota BOAT FOR SALE 09/21 Dallas, Texas James Valley Street Machines 14 Lonestar Boat 09/19 Jamestown Speedway Monthly Meeting. 7:00 Motor and trailer. Less than 40 hours to Stock Car Stampede 10/15 Buffalo City Rotisserie Grille on 35 horsepower Mercury. 09/20 Jamestown, North Dakota Hamburgers, Brats, Salad, Soft $1,850.00 09/19 NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Drink Free (While supply lasts) to JEGS Northern Nationals Jamestown, North Dakota 701-570-9587 09/21 Columbus, Ohio 10/17 NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Oahe Speedway to Silver Dollar Raceway CAR FOR SALE 09/19 10th Annual NHRA National 10/19 Reynolds, Georgia 1939 Ford Deluxe Coupe Open Test-N-Tune 10/25 Top End Dragways Banjo wheels, Motor, etc. Pierre, South Dakota & Bracket Weekend FINALS $1,950.00 James Valley Street Machines 10/26 Sabin, Minnesota 701-320-4721 Bob 09/20 4th Annual Car Show NHRA Mello Yellow Drag 10/30 Don Wilhelm, Inc. Racing CAR FOR SALE Jamestown, North Dakota to The Strip at Las Vegas 1939 Ford Deluxe Coupe Oahe Speedway 11/02 Las Vegas, Nevada Frame off restoration. 302 V8 Fuel 10th Annual NHRA National 11/06 NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Open Shootouts with to The Strip at Las Vegas Injected. AOD Transmission. 9 Inch 09/20 Koppien/Christensen 11/09 Las Vegas, Nevada 4 Link rear. Mustang front end. Memorial Stock/Super Stock James Valley Street Machines $30,000.00 Combo. Monthly Meeting. 7:00 701-662-3458 Pierre, South Dakota 11/12 Watch the "RUMBLER" for Oahe Speedway meeting times. CAR FOR SALE 09/21 9th Annual NHRA National Jamestown, North Dakota 1941 Willys Convertible Open Finals. NHRA Mello Yellow Drag 11/13 6 Liter 390 HP. 420 Foot pounds of Pierre, South Dakota Racing torque. 09/26 NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing to Auto Club Raceway to Rocky Mountain Raceways 11/16 Pomona, California $32,900.00 obo 09/28 Salt Lake City, Utah James Valley Street Machines 701-255-6729 Mark NHRA Mello Yellow Drag Awards Banquet 7:00 09/26 Racing 12/16 Prime Rib & Potato. CARS FOR SALE to Gateway Motorsports Park Live Auction @ the KC's 1962, 1963, 1964 2 Door Hardtop 09/28 St. Louis, Missouri Jamestown, North Dakota Galaxies 09/27 Top End Dragways P a g e | 46 Big block cars with or without drive CAR FOR SALE CAR FOR SALE train. Also, many Ford parts. 1966 Impala SS Coupe 1973 Cadillac Eldorado Convertible 701-983-4699 Dean Vin # 6l6753Q429037. Hard Parade boot. 500 cubic inch engine. Cassette CAR FOR SALE tape player/radio. Pace car for 1963 Chevy Corvair Coupe that year. Larry Model 900. Rotary engine. Straight Gilge. 701-320-7170 stick. Good Body. All complete $8,500.00 701-570-9587

CAR FOR SALE 1963 Ford Falcon Sprint 289 V8 engine. 3 speed transmission. Hardtop. $2,250.00 701-320-4721 Bob

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1964 Fairlane 500 2 Door Hardtop. 4 Speed transmission. 289 engine. 701-983-4699 Dean

CAR FOR SALE

1967 Mustang Convertible

Real SS with factory air conditioning. Factory console with gauge package. Automatic transmission. 327 V8. 4 barrel. Only has about 1000 miles since overhaul. New radial tires. New carpet. Excellent condition but not a perfect

show car. Driver quality. All original CAR FOR SALE $17,000.00 Winter Price unmolested rust free car. Thought to 1974 Lincoln Continental 701-269-8150 Craig be 84000 actual miles with great 4 Door. 460 V8. Automatic running 289 V8 and automatic transmission. Loaded. 54000 actual CAR FOR SALE transmission. Power steering and miles. Black. This car was owned by 1969 Mustang Fastback even has the original radio. Great top former governor Art Link. 351 (no engine). 3 Speed manual and original Springtime Yellow $5,700.00 transmission. color. Under book. 701-570-9587 701-983-4699 Dean $17,000.00 Winter Price

701-269-8150 Craig CAR FOR SALE

1969 Ford Thunderbird

429 V8. Automatic transmission. Loaded. White with brown vinyl top. $3,750.00 701-570-9587

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CAR FOR SALE 1983 Buick Riviera V8. Automatic transmission. 35000

actual miles. Loaded. Light Blue 4 Door. 184000 miles. Everything with White Landau top. works great. No issues. 3:73 gear $10,500.00 ratio. Spray in box liner. Cold air 701-570-9587 induction. Good 17” tires. Used every day. Used for recent trips to St CAR FOR SALE Cloud Minnesota and Watertown 1994 & 1989 Chrysler LeBaron South Dakota. Convertibles $6,000.00 Bodies are good. 701-269-2660 Steve $2,500.00 & $2,000.00 701-570-9587 TRUCK FOR SALE 2003 Dodge 2500 CAR FOR SALE 1995 Oldsmobile Runs and drives well. New rear 454 450 horsepower V8 (Not struts. Good Tires. Blue. If you want numbers matching). 4 Speed pictures text I and I’ll send them transmission. Posi rear end. Power $1,200.00 or best offer steering and brakes. Disc Changer. 701-535-1032 Completely restored. 99% original except the digital dash and hood TRUCK FOR SALE '03 3/4 ton Dodge 4x4 diesel, 4 door, (needed a different one for the big 1961 Ford F100 short box. 5.9 Cummins turbo, block). Approximately 6600 miles Unibody. 6 foot box. No motor or automatic trans, grey/tan cloth on the restoration. Same owner since transmission. Gray primer. interior. 218,000 miles. Updated 1983. $1,850.00 steering, Skyjacker lift with air bag $19,900.00 obo 701-570-9587 overloads in the rear. 315/70-17 701-269-3119 Scott BFG All Terrain tires. K&N cold air TRUCK FOR SALE kit, aftermarket intake, 5" exhaust CAR FOR SALE 1990 Ford F150 with muffler, 6" chrome tip. Bully (2) 1978 Cadillac Biarritz’s Super Cab. 4x4, 90000 actual miles. Dog GT tuner. Brand new Access Anniversary models. Only 2000 Nice body. Loaded. No rust. 351 V8 Rolltop cover. Gooseneck ball. made. Only 25 with glass roof. Last engine. Need some work? Auto Some rust over rear fender wells. year of the big Caddys. I have one overdrive transmission. Previous owner had fender flares and with a glass top and one without. $1,750.00 I found the rust when I took the $11,000.00 & $12,500.00 701-570-9587 flares off. Clean truck, rides nice, 701-570-9587 good mileage and pulls great. TRUCK FOR SALE Asking $14,500 OBO. Call Rusty at CAR FOR SALE 1994 Ford F150 701-269-9126 or email 1980 Lincoln Continental Mark XI Super Cab. 302 V8. Needs timing [email protected] 302 V8. Automatic transmission. 4 chain. Bucket seats. Loaded. door. Loaded. 79000 actual miles. $1,800.00 PARTS FOR SALE Nice car. Landau top. 701-570-9587 1965 Impala front fenders (patch $3,500.00 panels installed and primered). Set of 701-570-9587 1965 SS hub caps. Set of 1962 SS

hub caps. Complete 327 engine with

P a g e | 48 clutch and bell housing, camel hump for 1970 Mustang (Chrome CLUB SITES heads and 4 barrel carburetor. Runs alternator, Brake cylinder cap, and good. Set of 396 heads. 3 sets of brace from shock tower to firewall). Chevy big block headers. Have many more miscellaneous 701-739-7775 Gary parts. 701-739-7775 Gary PARTS FOR SALE Set of convertible top bows (full PARTS FOR SALE sized Chevy). Rear 12 bolt assembly (4) 17” 5 spoke Mustang Cobra type (sand blasted and painted). Front rims with tires $550.00 obo. suspension for a 1965 to 1968 Chevy 701-320-4721 Bob Impala (sand blasted and painted). 1966 Pontiac 389 block. Used 1966 PARTS FOR SALE GTO front fender. New front wire Wide assortment of project vehicles harness for 1977 Corvette. Center and parts. console lid for 1977 Corvette with 701-320-7660 Myke power window switches. WANTED 701-739-7775 Gary 1 pair of 1956 Chevrolet fender skirts. PARTS FOR SALE 701-290-5297 or 701-483-5297 Herb Set of convertible top bows (full WANTED sized Chevy). Rear 12 bolt assembly One rear bumper from1960 full size (sand blasted and painted). Front Buick. Center section not important suspension for a 1965 to 1968 Chevy as I’m only using the left and right Impala (sand blasted and painted). ends. 1966 Pontiac 389 block. Used 1966 701-367-9070 Myron GTO front fender. New front wire harness for 1977 Corvette. Center console lid for 1977 Corvette with power window switches. 701-739-7775 Gary

PARTS FOR SALE 1970 Mustang Parts: Front and Rear bumpers. Trunk lid (repaired and primered). Pair of white deluxe door panels. New pair of black coupe door panels. Rear valance panel (remanufactured). Cow panel in primer. New exhaust system for 351 Cleveland. Rear 8 inch complete housing assembly. Set of new rear leaf springs. New radiator of 302 coupe. Dash pad cover. 2 sets of used front fenders. 2 used front fender headlamp buckets. 1 left side rear quarter extension. 2 good used doors for coupe. Rear seat (black). Front bucket seat springs (bottom and backs) Right and Left disc brake assembly. C4 transmission with shifter. Right and Left door mirrors. Right and Left exhaust manifold for 302. Steering column for 1970 coupe. Set of new pistons for 351

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