Re: Favorite Bob Glidden car voting
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Orange County is where the test session was.
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Re: Favorite Bob Glidden car voting
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There were some pictures of his old small block mopar heads floating around on Facebook this week
1970 Duster Edelbrock headed 408 5.984@112.52 422 Indy headed small block 5.982@112.56 mph 9.42@138.27
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Re: Favorite Bob Glidden car voting
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Not taking ANYTHING away from Bob but at least some of his success with the Fords in the mid-late 70's could be at least in part due to the other ford teams (Gapp & Roush and Don Nicholson at least partially) backing out of Pro Stock.
Gapp & Roush were VERY TOUGH for anyone to beat until they backed out out of frustration with the ever-changing rules. We know the rest of the Roush story
Nicholson's engine builder was some kid named Jon Kaase, I think DD figured out it was way more luctrative to do the Southern Style "Run watcha brung!" IHRA Match Racing instead of going full time NHRA with the cleveland powered 70 Mustang. That led very quickly to the IHRA 700 then unlimited cube "Mountain Motor" racing of the early to mid 80's ....and brother, let me tell you that was some EXCITING Racing. It also led to the NHRA standardizing on the 500", 2350 pound recipie they run to this day.
There was so much $$$ and excitement in it that both Glidden and WJ raced both circuits with seperate NHRA and IHRA cars (WJ ran Jerome Bradford's Monte Carlo) which had to be physically and mentally taxing to do. It's also what brought WJ and Greg Anderson from Minnesota to Georgia. And Ronnie Sox drove Dean Thompson's 814" Kaase powered 82 Mustang which had a Roush Powered Mopar Missle Tribute Paint job.
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Re: Favorite Bob Glidden car voting
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Anyone know the history of the Arrow? Where did it go when he was done with it? This was a very long time ago, but at one time Jim Hale in Arkansas had some of Bob's SBM cylinder heads and perhaps a complete engine. I don't think Jim ever did anything with them and I don't know who he sold them to. It is unlikely but possible he still has them. Bill
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Re: Favorite Bob Glidden car voting
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I didn't know he was sticking with Mopar a second year, before the bankruptcy forced his hand. https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.hemmings.com%2Fblog%2F2017%2F07%2F07%2Fhemmings-find-of-the-day-1980-plymouth-volare%2F&h=ATOELfPxmJa7PuxwesYqz2NlrOUl9sNeAkiHfk4UZskH4-FU64cU2dzOMHyZk8t73tpm29G9dvYd5ADpjnOjlJiPIvwb-5Apk8gza2zhjyrbv_j8EIQgNfN-kqKbf3nU9rwCaQ0hoD19oQ
It may be ugly, but it sure is slow.
Girls comb their hair in rear view mirrors and the boys try to look so hard....
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Re: Favorite Bob Glidden car voting
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12/23/17 03:21 AM
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Sorry for the ugly link. Not sure what happened there. If you read through the comments on the poll page, you will find one that works.
It may be ugly, but it sure is slow.
Girls comb their hair in rear view mirrors and the boys try to look so hard....
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Re: Favorite Bob Glidden car voting
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12/23/17 09:25 AM
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My favorite is the Arrow hands down. I was at Pomona when that car debuted, and even though I was 15 at the time, it seemed so surreal that a SBM was dominating pro stock that way. Bob got off the throttle early on every pass in eliminations that I saw. He succeeded with the same X block and W2 head castings that Chrysler's braintrust of engineers had failed with. In the late 70's my dad's modified eliminator heads were done by Jim Razor at Mullen & Co. in Culver City, CA. There was a SBM block there that had all the cylinder walls removed, just a big oval hole from end to end. Didn't know it at the time, but it was Glidden's block, obviously getting some thick sleeve work done.
And the Arrow went to Paul Gentilozzi for a short time, then to Jerry Hurley, and was driven by Dempsey Hardy and Sonny Ray in modified and comp eliminator
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Re: Favorite Bob Glidden car voting
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And Ronnie Sox drove Dean Thompson's 814" Kaase powered 82 Mustang which had a Roush Powered Mopar Missle Tribute Paint job. I saw Sox match racing Jenkins (Can't remember who was driving for Grump) at Motion Raceway with that car. It was a good looking car for sure.
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Re: Favorite Bob Glidden car voting
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Wow!!!!! The Arrow not only won, it won big
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Re: Favorite Bob Glidden car voting
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As it should. Glidden dominated with that car.
Just because you think it won't make it true. Horsepower is KING. To dispute this is stupid. C. Alston
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Re: Favorite Bob Glidden car voting
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As it should. Glidden dominated with that car. I'm just kinda surprised the Ford guys didn't come out.
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Re: Favorite Bob Glidden car voting
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From what I understand the block was highly modified including changing the lifter angles. Didn't Landy try that without much success?
It may be ugly, but it sure is slow.
Girls comb their hair in rear view mirrors and the boys try to look so hard....
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Re: Favorite Bob Glidden car voting
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As it should. Glidden dominated with that car. I'm just kinda surprised the Ford guys didn't come out. I think there were so many Fords he did so well with it split the vote up. I was sure his undefeated Fairmont would win, but glad to see the Arrow pull it off.
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Re: Favorite Bob Glidden car voting
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Geezz...who would drive a fugly Arrow....lol
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Re: Favorite Bob Glidden car voting
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From what I understand the block was highly modified including changing the lifter angles. Didn't Landy try that without much success? Yes, there was a magazine article that Dandy Dick moved the lifter valley around. It was in an old SS?DI. Sox and Martin also had a sb mopar PS...
Tony
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Re: Favorite Bob Glidden car voting
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From what I understand the block was highly modified including changing the lifter angles. Didn't Landy try that without much success? Yes, there was a magazine article that Dandy Dick moved the lifter valley around. It was in an old SS?DI. Sox and Martin also had a sb mopar PS... That's correct, Landy did it first, only with success. The article was in a SS/DI, I still have that issue packed away. Best drag race car mag ever, hated it when they closed it down.
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