DoverDragStrip.com

by **TomBlake** » Sun Mar 08, 2009 8:52 pm

Now that we have a lot more members and more people checking out this site.
Does anyone know anything about the '55, it was sold out of Shelton CT in 1966.

by **dinotheweirdo** » Mon Mar 16, 2009 8:36 am

Was this ever plain orange ? if so found a couple of shots in those slides from Kevin Dunn .

by **TomBlake** » Mon Mar 16, 2009 10:50 am

Dino...Yes it was plain orange for a short time. After the orange paint job it took several weeks to get lettered.
unbelievable the stuff that you are making come to the surface and the stuff people have saved over all these years.

by **TomBlake** » Mon Mar 16, 2009 2:48 pm

Here is a couple of dated pictures when it was orange without lettering. Looks like it took more than a couple of weeks to get lettered, money was real tight in those days.

by **dinotheweirdo** » Mon Mar 16, 2009 2:55 pm

Ok ...I think we have a match...63-64?

by **TomBlake** » Mon Mar 16, 2009 10:52 pm

I can get the dates pretty close to actual.
The plain orange with no lettering and the flat tire was taken on 5/23/65 and that was the first day the orange paint went to Dover.
The first picture I can see lettering on the car was taken on 6/27/65.
That puts any pictures of the plain orange '55 with no lettering between 5/23/65 and 6/27/65.

by **Billy Casey** » Tue Mar 17, 2009 12:52 pm

Your rite tom about the money ... running a gasser back then was tuff on the wallet ... 1st paint job put me in a financial bind..My brother Eddie took me and my not yet wife to mass at saint Anne's in yonkers every sunday and all i prayed for is that i didn't brake anything .... God didn't answer my prayers to often back then

what great memories Billy

by **TomBlake** » Tue Mar 17, 2009 4:11 pm

Billy...Amen, but those days were probably the best and can't be replaced today.
I did see in some of your posts that we had something in common, we were both running E/G but looks like we missed each other by a few years.
E/G cars like yours ran quicker in the later years.