Hemi Cuda, before and after.

after

"turned off the ignition key"

I went to HS with a guy that did that trying to save gas going down a hill, he locked the wheel, hit a bridge abutment, broke both his legs, was lucky to have survived.

The pictures of the Hahn 70 Cudas really brings back memories. One correction on your post, The first picture is the second car after the first one was wrecked. I saw both of these cars run at Bonanza Raceway in Walla Walla, WA. In fact Bob Norwood gave me a ride home from the track in his Dodge hauler with the second Cuda he built on the back of the truck. I asked him what happened to the first Cuda and he said he rolled it. The first Cuda which was wrecked had a much neater 70's theme paint job on it. The later car was red and white with a black vinyl top.

Dude was lucky he wasn't killed, just looking at the damage to the car/roof caved in. How does one 'accidentally' turn the key off in any car let alone a drag car at 25 let alone 125? Sheeze.

There are now more vintage race car photo albums available to view with some great shots of some of the people behind the scenes. There are two new albums, the first one is from Dave and Suzie Koffel, the second one is from John Wehrly.

Thanks to Dave, Suzie & John for providing photos from their collections and to Stewart and Mike for getting them scanned and uploaded for all of us to see! Here is the link;


http://www.hamtramck-historical.com/vintageRacing/people.shtml

Enjoy!

Barry

You have to wonder, what ever happened to that
Rod Shop Colt wagon?
Was that not one of the most unique race cars ever?

The Colt Wagon body is still alive in a guys garage on the east coast - not for sale !! -- Reed in Neb.

Anyone have pic's of the '67 Camaro funnycar named "Out of Sight" running a 392 Hemi?

some pics of the Wagon here - along with other photos - also on the Wehrly side of these photos

http://www.hamtramck-historical.com/vintageRacing/people/Koffel.shtml

What class(es) did the Colt Wagon run in? What c.i. was that motor in the pic of the Colt Wagon on the Hamtramck site? Just as an aside comment. The more I learn about and see what Mopar was doing back in the day and realizing that they were the smallest of the big 3, GM, Ford then Chrysler, it really shows just how good a central group of guys those were in the drag/NASCAR R&D side of things, Hoover, etal. GM in a purely monetary way could have buried Chrysler, even back then, being alot larger a company overall. For Mopar to have become so legendary performance wise back in the day was quite an accomplishment. And to think that as of '61-'62 no one involved in drag racing really wanted to run anything Mopar. I've heard numerous people say that over the years including Ronnie Sox. Beyond solid bunch of guys, engineers, engine builders, chassis guys et al.

Here are a couple random photos;

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Coolest photo of Tritak and Morgan wagon.

Found in my inbox today

Ken Bradlee

Great photo of the '67 WO. Keep them coming.