More vintage Pro Stock

[C Body Bob]

Some girl power

Shay Nichols in her Dart Sport Pro Stock car. One of the few & I mean very few women to race in Pro Stock. She was good. Just didn't have to funding to buy the best stuff. Her hubby was her crew cheif & mechanic. They only raced Pro for a few years

 

[C Body Bob]

AMC power

The Rambler boys had some good runs.

 

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Dick Oldfield

At the MOPAR Nats standing with the (not yet finnished) Missile.

 

[70bigblockdodge]

Glad I was not the only one having trouble getting good pictures in that tent.

 

[C Body Bob]

Funny thing. The restored missile doesn't yet have its engine. And there is a guy in New Zealand who has a original twin plug Hemi that came out of a missile car. He has been looking a body for it & just recently bought a Duster from a collector in Pa. that has no history. So he is hoping it was raced by someone important.

 

[C Body Bob]

The Missile as a sportsman

Mike Fons sold this Missile to this sportsman racer

 

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Missile sportsman 2.0

And then it was sold again to this sportsman racer who race it well into the 80's as a good bracket car. Now 440 powered

 

[cm23uoc]

Shay Nichols in her Dart Sport Pro Stock car. One of the few & I mean very few women to race in Pro Stock. She was good. Just didn't have to funding to buy the best stuff. Her hubby was her crew cheif & mechanic. They only raced Pro for a few years

Drag on Lady Shirley Shahan Comes to mind as well. Also serviced by her husband AFAIK.

http://drag.racersreunion.com/group/shirleyshahandragonladyfans

 

[C Body Bob]

Georgous Duster

Georgous indeed ! Tell me this isn't just beautifull. Atlanta, GA's Reid Whisnant's Hemi Duster Pro Stock.

 

[70bigblockdodge]

Shirly was in Super stock when with Mopars pre 1970. Then moved on to AMC and I do not know if they ever fielded a Pro Stock team. I would have to imagine that if Shirley would have raced Pro Stock with Mopar she would have been the first woman to win a Pro Stock event not Erica Enders Stevens some 43 years later.



Bob I will tell you that is the only way a Duster looks good is as a race car.

 

[cm23uoc]

Shirley raced only in 71 in Pro Stock and stopped racing after AMC pulled the plug to Support Penske/Donahue.

 

[C Body Bob]

Did Judy Lilly ever race Pro Stock? Not sure. I know Bunny Burkett did in a pink Pinto

 

[polara71]

a local guy

my only contribution

 

[C Body Bob]

John Hagen's record

Down at the bottom you see he got the MPH record with his Hemi powered Plymouth Arrow. This was in the "weight per cubic inch days" that where not kind to Hemi engines. This was late in the 1981 NHRA season

 

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Arlen Vanke

Nice pic of Arlen's legendary Duster sitting behind his hauler

 

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Dick Landy

His Pro Stock Challenger

 

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Dick Landy

Pro Stock Dart Sport. Looks like his brother Mike checking the oil in the big ole Hemi. Notice the disc brakes on the rear in the bottom pic

 

[C Body Bob]

Dick Landy

His highly modified W2/340 small block Omni 024. Check out that tire growth on the rear slick. That changes the gear ratio as it go's down the track & changes the weight balance. One reason the small block cars did so good in these small cars. Brad Yuill driving

 

[70bigblockdodge]

I had a model of that 72-4 red, white, and blue Challenger when I was a kid I don't know what happened to it after I went in the Navy. Always liked that paint scheme.

 

[C Body Bob]

Me too. Dick Landy was a cool dude