"Trick Tank" 62' Dodge and "Bis-Kwik" 66' Biscayne

[VBOB]

HEY
.- ____ .....----- attic !!!
'V'

[Paul Ceasrine]

Video Bob,

Thanks for backing me up on that one. Looks like "BIS-KWIK" ended up in the hands of someone connected with Don's Speed Shop, Newington CT, in 69', after John Rines sold the car. Maybe it was at Dover in the 70's too.
Looks like "BIS-KWIK" had a best ET of 12.15 @ 112, in B/S. Then went into 3/DS (AHRA)
and set the record at 11.50 @ 121. The car had "Record Holder" lettered on it. Must have campaigned a bit at New England Dragway (AHRA track?).

OK Gary, Mr. Storm King. First off, you don't need any Pinion Snubbers, if I recall your
63' Max-Wedge was an automatic, and the Storm King II (former "Black Arrow" S/SA) was an automatic. So you must have at least (2) loose Snubbers laying around for an 8 3/4 rear.
I only need one. Now, if you have one of those Sox & Martin lightweight adjustable units
that you don't need, well I'll take that instead. You said, they are not needed for automatics.
Now they way those cars launched, with the Super Stock springs, I bet there wasn't one mark
on the rubber snubber or under-carriage below the back seat (unless Tiny Lund was in the
back seat).

Paul .... This has been a DIRECT-CONNECTION.

[storm king]

God the stuff we used to throw away! There isn't a thing left from our car days. Dad sold everything that we had left to some kids in Cornwall , the Ianola brothers. If anything escaped N.Y., I probably threw it away when I moved them from Tennessee to Oklahoma. If it escaped to Oklahoma, I know I threw it away before we came to Kentucky. I really never expected to be playing with cars again. After all, I was running 7 flat at 192 on a bike that cost me 13 K all in. Do that with a car!
I do like the new snubbers those guys are doing that thread up and down, and have a pin to lock position. Much more adjustable than preset stops on the old S&M units; but I don't know how neccessary that is. they just look right.
I'd probably use them with today's tires anyway; at leaset do some testing with them. I'm putting a crossmember on my Dart where the factory snubber would impact just in case I decide to use one.

[dinotheweirdo]

Well this got interesting...My question is how did Paul Gather so much info on that car ?...Bis-kwik?

[Paul Ceasrine]

Dino,

My old girlfriend Cathy used to live in Central Jersey. I used to remember seeing Drag cars
down there with Don's Speed Shop (out of Metuchen, NJ) lettering on the car. Don's was pretty famous down there, and had their name on quite a few Englishtown cars.

Fast-forward. I remember seeing "Bis-Kwik" at Dover, not a lot, but a few times. Since I was into watching the Jr. Stockers and Super Stockers, I remember alot of them. Always at the
starting line, when my father headed into the staging lanes. Of course you can't forget
"The Pied Piper" (probably the most famous of the stockers at Dover). Everytime he ran, you just had to watch. That's why I remember "Bis-Kwik" (B/Stock). Had to be 68' and 69'.
70? not so sure.

Now, "Bis-Kwik" had lettering on the front fenders, Don's Speed Shop. Also, was a car you could not forget if you saw it, basic white Biscayne, with clean lettering. And who could forget that catchy name. The memory of that car kind of stayed with me.

Fast-forward. About 3 weeks ago, my friend and Dover patron Mike Cursando, e-mails
me and tells me that he saw the 66' Biscayne "Bis-Kwik" on MY CLASSIC CAR. I tell him that
the car was at Dover, and I remember it. I asked him, Where did they find it?, and he said
Newtown, CT. And I e-mailed him back, and said I think that was where Don's Speed Shop was. He e-mailed me back yesterday (after you asked), with a bunch of information on the car. He told me he got the information for the car through MY CLASSIC CAR.

Paul

[VBOB]

HEY
Seems we have two 'NEW''s !!
We have NEWTOWN,CT,which is close to Danbury and we have NEWINGTON ,Ct. which is close to Hartford !!
'V'

[Paul Ceasrine]

Dino and V-Bob,

Newtown and/or Newington. My friend Mike said Newtown, but maybe he misunderstood
the telecast, or maybe he didn't. Anyway, the car was found in Connecticut, and that's a good thing, right? Can't believe no one else remembers that car at Dover. Is everybody from
68' thru 70' still under a chemical enhancer

Gary (Storm King). Right about throwing stuff away. When my father sold his shop in 98',
he couldn't give anything away. All the small block Mopar 340 stuff, even the Big Block 440 stuff, damn even the small block Chevy stuff (all the Fuelie Heads), pink rods, and factory aluminum dual-plane intakes, nobody wanted to pay any decent amount of $ for that stuff.
All's anybody wanted, was his cache' of CHEVY BIG-BLOCKS. Steel cranks, 4-bolt main blocks,
L-89 aluminum heads, and open-chamber SPEC. PERFORMANCE heads.

Have to penalize you one viscous-drive fan-clutch. I think Joe Kenney had "Trick Tank"
for 68' and the entire 69' season, (and maybe a touch or two in 70') before making the
Camaro switch over. Those damn 69' Camaro's, had about a half-dozen different engines to choose from in 69' (302/290...350/255....350/295.....350/350....327/275.....327/210), and thats only the small-blocks, GEEZ.

In 1969, over at Mopar, we had a 340/275...383/335.....440/375.... and a street HEMI.
Thats for the whole damn division.

Paul (If I'm wrong about "Trick Tank", I've got a 1964 factory Race Hemi NASCAR-type oil pan,
worth about $$$$$$$ for you).

[dinotheweirdo]

Got an idea ...IF Bis-Kwik in NEWington....need a street...got guys right there. Also ...maybe Lee knows something If ran Dad a lot. ON Classic Car? TV show ?

[Paul Ceasrine]

Dino,

Gary Dancosse' of Manchester, Connecticut has possession of "BIS-KWIK", the 66' Biscayne.

You mentioned Willie Hormente "Kandid Kamaro" earlier. Willie left "The Automobile Shop"
(I think in 74' or 75') and went to work for Jay Hanson at Jefferson Valley Service Center, right up the street from my fathers engine shop.
You might want to shoot an e-mail to Jay, alot of guys ran cars at Dover through his garage, and maybe he has photo's to share. Jay a good hard-working guy. Still has the business.
Jay ran "GoldiLocks" 69' Nova, 396/325hp SS/HA. Did pretty good in 72 thru 74'.
Of course he did, my father did his heads
Willie had his Camaro parked their, outside with no engine in it. I'm pretty sure Willie was in the process of putting together a 56' Chevy (in one of Jay's bays) when tragedy struck.
Jay married a girl Theresa who's father lettered alot of cars in that area, including Jays' "GoldiLocks" of course, and my fathers Cuda "The Shadow". Not as good as
you though, he was a little cheaper (OOH! Less expensive I mean.)
I'll try to track down Jay's web-site.
Or if you contact them, just say my mom Jeannette Ceasrine from Valley Motor referred you.

Paul

[BOBBY S.]

FYI
Here are pictures of the ORIGINAL T - Bolt
Nazy Crate at Beaver Springs Dragway last year
the weekend of the York reunion,
It was all hand painted back to original
by the original painter/pinstriper Howie,
car looked awesome.