Racers not sponcered by Ford offically still got great deals on packages from Ford. Your car sounds like one of the sweetheart deals. Jack Fuche is a good friend and worked at DST back in the day. His Tbolt was bought that way. He bought the car from the line as a K code 289 hipo with his own money and the rest was dropped of a few weeks later at DST. Now a 70 Maverick with drum brakes at that speed scares me, but only at my age. lol 10 years ago no problem. The stick or automatic makes a big differance too. I had a 67 fairlane drag car 8 or so years ago that I converted back to a street car. A 13 second car with a C6 and manual drum brakes makes for a few close calls in city traffic. My 67 390GT Cougar is not as fast as it was, but the power disc brakes sure makes stopping in traffic a lot more fun.
Yes, the Maverick did scare me when I turned the 9.8 because I missed the first and last turn off to the return road...............and I couldn't get the chute to open................pretty much went off the end of the strip but luck would have it that the field is pretty smooth. So, as the motor is coming together a set of Wilwood front discs are going on the stock Ford drum spindles.......and the chute is now workable...........not that I will need it. The last SS drag car I had was a 68-1/2 Mustang CJ that had spent its life as a drag car. The automatic was certainly a change from the Crash Box in the Galaxie but it sure did hook!.............and was about a second faster than the Galaxie. Now that I am on the upside of 65 an automatic is the only way for me to go, and the Powerglide I've got in the Maverick does the job.
For you guys watching the auction, the Dyno Don car should come up later this afternoon. It will be interesting as it is just before one of the "Eight" factory built Dragonsnakes goes up on the block..................and my guess is there will be a lot of action on this car.
Not to interupt this thread, but the talk of the cammer engines got me to thinking about Rick Kirk located in the one horse town of Ripley, Ok. We went into his shop, RK Machine shop and saw no less than 4 cammer engines!! He also has 2 buildings in "downtown" Ripley with several rare cars. 65R code Galaxy, 63 lightweigt cammer Galaxy, one of 5 B/FX 65 Comet with fuel injected 289, and on and on. If any of you are ever near this town, south of Stillwater, you ought to make the trip and see the cars, it was awesome. Rick is a really nice guy and willing to let you look at it all. He worked on tooling for the Ford GT supercar and also tooling for the C5 Corvette. His office is worth a fortune with all the memorabilia.
Well.......I'm a little surprised, although the Thunderbolts did not sell either and only one drag car brought the big numbers, The DragonSnake.
Mecum Auction What a great week we had. The car did not sell but what PR we had. The crowd around the car was great. People would walk by look, point and then walk over to see if the car was the real one or a fake. One got on his cell and yelled The Dyno Don Car is here! Get over here! Just a few fools leaned on the fiberglass fenders and acid dipped body that had to be reminded to look but not touch. Guys were telling stories about the tracks where they saw the car winning races. Several knew about the huge winning streak it had. Many talked about their Dad's taking them to the track. Then there were a few old timers that raced with Don back in the day. We also found out why it was the Mr. Gasket car. Don did the testing for the V gate shifter. When it went into production Don got #1 and installed it in the car. This was from the guy that got #2. We noticed that there was a lack of (real) $$ buyers asking the right questions so we did not have really high hopes by the time it crossed the block. I consider it like an open house where mostly people look but no real buyers. We have it safey tucked away for now, the Mecum contract says we cannot sell it for 3 weeks unless we pay them a commission, lol. Look for it on ebay again in March, and maybe at Mecum in the spring. Did the Maverick that sold for $26,000 belong to anybody here?
Sold it. Yes we found a buyer for it. It is in private hands but we are hoping that it will wind up in a museum for public viewing. Wayne Jeffers enjoyed showing it so much. How many can say they have a fresh running cammer, built by Earl Wade (2003) in a championship car that Earl himself helped build? The tuff question is if the new owner will restore it or keep it in it's original as is condition. Besides the paint crackeling on the top of the fiberglass fenders the paint is in real good condition. What a time machine.
That's great, hopefully the new owner will keep the car as original as possible....................I believe that as time marches forward, non-restored original cars will be bring more $$ than 100% restored cars............IMHO
