Mark,
Couple more of your car from the web....

again...

Couple of Colts for sale on RacingJunk.com

Colts for Sale

<smiling> How did you recognize it as the old Bonneville Raceway? I didn't see any signs in the two photos Bill posted, but you sure picked up on the location! 1984, eh? I think I had sold my Challenger and was building a Daytona in that time frame.

Here is another Colt photo you will recognize as from Bonneville Raceway.

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Wow, Dont see many vintage Bonneville raceway photos. I ran my '69 Roadrunner there. The first time I ever went was the last NHRA Points meet in 1984.

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Here is a photo I took of a Hemi Colt at the IHRA Winternationals in 1980, and it was running in Street Rod. Not sure of the background on this car. Anyone have any info?

I just recognized the over the track walkway and other small things.
Are you the one that sold Brian Barker his Hemi Challenger ex-pro stocker?
If you have some other photos from there back in the day I would kill to see them.

Here you go on a couple of photos of that Challenger. The original owner bought it as a body-in-white and put it together as a PS car in 1971. The car wasn't too successful and had alot of breakage problems with transmissions. I found the car for sale in 1978 and told a friend about it and he purchased it. The car had a 426 +30 Hemi in it with steel rods and 12.5 trw pistons, a racer brown roller cam, and a Milodon oil pan and system. It had a Weiand tunnel ram (aluminum) and a pair of 6214 dominator carbs.

The trans was a slick shifted red stripe with 2.66 first gear, and the dana rearend had a posi and 5.13 gears. The body was all steel other than a glass hood and *maybe* a glass decklid.

When my buddy took the car out for the first time after some serious clean up and tweaking, the car acted very strange on the launch, almost like it wasn't really shifting from first to second, even though the Vertical Gate shifter had moved. This weird behavior had us baffled for a week or so as we pondered the shifter for issues, and we finally decided to pull the trans. Once we had it on the bench it was easy to see what the problem was. The previous owner, for whatever reason, had decided to mount the shifter higher than the Mr Gasket mounting bracket called for. However, it was so high that they just turned the shift arms 180 degrees to get a better alignment of the shift rods. This also put the trans in second gear when the shifter was in the first gear position! It was going 2 to 1 to 4 to 3 as you banged through the gears!

The pictures I attached were probably taken in 1978, and the car had a few mods done by then. The slotted mags had been replaced with Super Tricks, the early pro stock hood scoop replaced by a snorkel, and the air horns milled off the carbs.

As I recall, this car was running in the low ten's at this time at 4500 feet altitude.

You know how hindsight is 20/20? This would be a nice period-correct PS car for 1971. I should have kept it when my friend consigned it to me to sell in about 1985. Oh Well, eh?

Mark

Colt on craigslist...make one!

http://nashville.craigslist.org/cto/969406191.html

Always wanted a colt ever since I was a kid and I first saw them at E-town back inthe mid 70's.

as a kid I could fit inone really nice, As a 'full grown' (6'-2" and about 245) man, I've never found one i get in....or out of without using the "jaws of life!"

I can relate...

I drove a Datsun PL521 pickup in high school.

Had one in the shop a few years back - almost couldn't fit behind the wheel, let alone drive it.

-bill