Posted By: bigdad
The Whakee Wagon has moved to a new home .. - 05/10/09 02:01 AM
A friend in Sodak now owns it .. And its show days are over , back to the track !
The Whakee Wagon has moved to a new home ..
Posted By: Darrell
Re: The Whakee Wagon has moved to a new home .. - 05/10/09 02:05 AM
Cool, the McCandless brothers bought a wagon(stocker) that they are putting to good use in IHRA. What good are they if you aint racing them!! 
Posted By: 300by500
Re: The Whakee Wagon has moved to a new home .. - 05/10/09 02:06 AM
That's awesome!
Posted By: codfish
Re: The Whakee Wagon has moved to a new home .. - 05/10/09 02:06 AM
Cool! I think that's where it belongs .
What do you think?
codfish
.What do you think?
codfish
Posted By: bigdad
Re: The Whakee Wagon has moved to a new home .. - 05/10/09 02:08 AM
Race it !!
Posted By: J_BODY
Re: The Whakee Wagon has moved to a new home .. - 05/10/09 02:09 AM
Hmmmm.....rainbow theme. Fergen?? 
Posted By: bigdad
Re: The Whakee Wagon has moved to a new home .. - 05/10/09 02:11 AM
No ..he is a shivvy lubber
He came down a couple weeks ago and bought a little altered
He will be out with it this summer
He came down a couple weeks ago and bought a little altered
He will be out with it this summer
Posted By: GOLDENCOMMANDO
Re: The Whakee Wagon has moved to a new home .. - 05/10/09 09:09 PM
this picture is at the valley, as I was told?
Posted By: slantzilla
Re: The Whakee Wagon has moved to a new home .. - 05/10/09 09:57 PM
Love that wagon. 
Posted By: 69_6bbl_Runner
Re: The Whakee Wagon has moved to a new home .. - 05/10/09 10:09 PM
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A friend in Sodak now owns it .. And its show days are over , back to the track !
Ummm, when was it's "show days" ? That car has never been a show car that I know of, it's set up to race and has been for quite a few years.
Posted By: maxie
Re: The Whakee Wagon has moved to a new home .. - 05/10/09 10:43 PM
I kept watching it as it was on ebay. Glad to see it will be used for what it was built for.
Posted By: G-Money1320
Re: The Whakee Wagon has moved to a new home .. - 05/10/09 10:57 PM
That year wagon is in my opinion the best looking of all the wagons Cool Car-Race it!!
Cool Car-Race it!!
Posted By: GOLDENCOMMANDO
Re: The Whakee Wagon has moved to a new home .. - 05/13/09 03:32 AM
anyone know what the plate says on the back??? Thanks
Posted By: bigdad
Re: The Whakee Wagon has moved to a new home .. - 05/13/09 03:38 AM
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anyone know what the plate says on the back??? Thanks
I DO !!!!!
Posted By: GOLDENCOMMANDO
Re: The Whakee Wagon has moved to a new home .. - 05/13/09 03:39 AM
Do tell.
Posted By: bigdad
Re: The Whakee Wagon has moved to a new home .. - 05/13/09 03:40 AM
Posted By: bigdad
Re: The Whakee Wagon has moved to a new home .. - 05/13/09 03:41 AM
Plymouth
Coming Through !
Coming Through !
Posted By: GOLDENCOMMANDO
Re: The Whakee Wagon has moved to a new home .. - 05/13/09 03:43 AM
Many thanks-
Posted By: bigdad
Re: The Whakee Wagon has moved to a new home .. - 05/13/09 03:48 AM
No problem dude
Posted By: GOLDENCOMMANDO
Re: The Whakee Wagon has moved to a new home .. - 05/13/09 03:50 AM
Now, where could a guy round up a pair of them?
Posted By: HMcCandless_Jr
Re: The Whakee Wagon has moved to a new home .. - 05/13/09 04:17 AM
That car ran Super Stock with a Hemi and a 4 Speed back in 68. That is a bad ass combo, 4000 lbs with a Hemi and a Stick. And not one of these pussycat sticks these guys run today, that took a real driver with talent to shift.
herb jr
herb jr
Posted By: hotairballoonpilot
Re: The Whakee Wagon has moved to a new home .. - 05/14/09 10:03 PM
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this picture is at the valley, as I was told?
Josh
I think that mom or dad took that pic probably at minnesota dragway. I know some of the pics I emailed you were from TVD but the back ground doesn't look like TVD. If I come across that pic again I'll have to see if it was wrote on there were it was from. I know I have some pics that they took when they went to a divisional race in Ill. I wonder if that wasn't taken there.
So did it end up going to B.H.? Will it be @TVD anytime this year?
Posted By: GOLDENCOMMANDO
Re: The Whakee Wagon has moved to a new home .. - 05/14/09 11:18 PM
Yes and yes. I believe it will be at the first Mopar race. Any info you find on it would be appreciated I am sure.
Posted By: GOLDENCOMMANDO
Re: The Whakee Wagon has moved to a new home .. - 06/10/09 03:16 AM
At the track.
Posted By: GOLDENCOMMANDO
Re: The Whakee Wagon has moved to a new home .. - 06/10/09 03:17 AM
With the "Pet"
Posted By: GOLDENCOMMANDO
Re: The Whakee Wagon has moved to a new home .. - 06/10/09 03:19 AM
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Posted By: SportF
Re: The Whakee Wagon has moved to a new home .. - 06/10/09 12:51 PM
Those last couple of pictures are great photos from this last weekend at TV. I gotta say I had a great time there, well worth the drive to meet a bunch of some of the friendliest racers and folks around. Great place to race and camp as well.
Posted By: 73swinger
Re: The Whakee Wagon has moved to a new home .. - 06/10/09 12:55 PM
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Those last couple of pictures are great photos from this last weekend at TV. I gotta say I had a great time there, well worth the drive to meet a bunch of some of the friendliest racers and folks around. Great place to race and camp as well.
Ditto on the friendliest racers and folks around.
Posted By: bigdad
Re: The Whakee Wagon has moved to a new home .. - 06/10/09 01:37 PM
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Those last couple of pictures are great photos from this last weekend at TV. I gotta say I had a great time there, well worth the drive to meet a bunch of some of the friendliest racers and folks around. Great place to race and camp as well.
Ya'll come back now..Yah hear !
Posted By: dakotahotrodder
Re: The Whakee Wagon has moved to a new home .. - 06/10/09 01:47 PM
It was nice racing and visiting with you last weekend. You'll have to try to get back down again this year if your schedule allows it.
Wade
Wade
Posted By: Moparnut426
Re: The Whakee Wagon has moved to a new home .. - 06/10/09 02:12 PM
I also know who now owns it, I saw her sitting in his trailer a few weekend ago... He plans on racing it though. The next time I go up there Ill take some pictures of it, its awsome!!!
I used to have a model car of that car, and I cant find it now, and Ebay doesnt have any either...
Brad is a stand up guy, he bought the car from Paul CHristoferson out of omaha.
I thought that car was AWSOME!! Brad has a few pixs of that thing dangleing the front wheels. Either way you look at it, that is one fast tank!!
Posted By: StewartP
Re: The Whakee Wagon has moved to a new home .. - 06/10/09 02:55 PM
Lee Smith built and raced that car, also ran in C/MP --- pm me if you want his email
StewartP
StewartP
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Posted By: REHBERGERRACING
Re: The Whakee Wagon has moved to a new home .. - 06/10/09 07:05 PM
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I kept watching it as it was on ebay. Glad to see it will be used for what it was built for.
What did that car sell for????
Thanks Ralph
Posted By: StewartP
Re: The Whakee Wagon has moved to a new home .. - 06/10/09 07:16 PM
some photos as C/MP and SS/G
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Posted By: jake4cars
Re: The Whakee Wagon has moved to a new home .. - 06/10/09 10:16 PM
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Don't mean to steal your thread but since you are showing pictures of Jerry's old wagon I thought I would include one of Jerry's shop taken about a month ago when I visited him.
Joey
Posted By: GOLDENCOMMANDO
Re: The Whakee Wagon has moved to a new home .. - 06/11/09 12:07 AM
Any more pics??? I have wondered a million times what it looks like in there. I have not talked to him in quite awhile now but I thought he was going racing again?
Posted By: bigdad
Re: The Whakee Wagon has moved to a new home .. - 06/11/09 12:15 AM
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Any more pics??? I have wondered a million times what it looks like in there . I have not talked to him in quite awhile now but I thought he was going racing again?
Posted By: GOLDENCOMMANDO
Re: The Whakee Wagon has moved to a new home .. - 06/11/09 12:18 AM
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Those last couple of pictures are great photos from this last weekend at TV. I gotta say I had a great time there, well worth the drive to meet a bunch of some of the friendliest racers and folks around. Great place to race and camp as well.
It was great to meet you Tom. I think I told you a couple time but You have a awesome car there.
Posted By: GOLDENCOMMANDO
Re: The Whakee Wagon has moved to a new home .. - 06/11/09 12:19 AM
!!!!
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Re: The Whakee Wagon has moved to a new home .. - 06/11/09 12:57 AM
last but not least, the old master himself. He is putting a car together, I don't know when he plans on running it, he also had a really nice 63 Dodge wagon outside that I couldn't get a photo of, it was too dark. I always enjoy spending time with Jerry, I know he will be at the Mopar nats this summer.
Joey
Joey
Posted By: GOLDENCOMMANDO
Re: The Whakee Wagon has moved to a new home .. - 06/11/09 01:18 AM
Thanks! you made my day!!! I always try to talk to Jerry at the Nats every year. A couple years back we had a wagon full of Supertricks that got his attention, The pics made me laugh because it looks like he has a lifetime supply of them stacked on top of that cabinet! HAHA!
Posted By: jake4cars
Re: The Whakee Wagon has moved to a new home .. - 06/11/09 03:01 AM
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Thanks! you made my day!!! I always try to talk to Jerry at the Nats every year. A couple years back we had a wagon full of Supertricks that got his attention, The pics made me laugh because it looks like he has a lifetime supply of them stacked on top of that cabinet! HAHA!
Ha!, he does love his super tricks, I think he would put them on his daily driver if possible. I thought my shop was messy...er, I mean, slightly out of order, it's nothing compared to his. Those fenders resting on that 64 are aluminum, just incredible, all that in a quiet sub-division in Jersey. When I was there he had just returned from a visit/shopping expedition at Dvoraks and he had some cool stuff. At any rate, I am glad you liked the pictures.
Joey
Posted By: olwhite64
Re: The Whakee Wagon has moved to a new home .. - 06/11/09 03:26 AM
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Harms is gonna have to let them sideburns grow in...
Posted By: Harms Way
Re: The Whakee Wagon has moved to a new home .. - 06/11/09 02:44 PM
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I kept watching it as it was on ebay. Glad to see it will be used for what it was built for.
What did that car sell for????
Thanks Ralph
An original 1967 Hemi GTX, a rebuilt 1966 Hemi engine complete from intake to oilpan, a 1968 hemi K-frame, a set of bucket seats and steering column for a 1970 charger, and 230 presidents, and I don't mean George.
Posted By: 68hemiss
Re: The Whakee Wagon has moved to a new home .. - 06/12/09 01:09 AM
Speaking of wagons, what ever became of John Macey's east coast based "Lead Zeppelin"?
Mark J
Mark J
Posted By: 66Hemiwagon
Re: The Whakee Wagon has moved to a new home .. - 06/13/09 01:47 AM
Nice to see the sister car to my dads wagon in same area. Matt Curtin owns Gary Ostrich's 66 hemiwagon and was the other SS/GA wagon built to run against 428 Mustangs. We will be restoring dads wagon back to its purple lace paint job.
Posted By: bigdad
Re: The Whakee Wagon has moved to a new home .. - 06/13/09 01:55 AM
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Nice to see the sister car to my dads wagon in same area. Matt Curtin owns Gary Ostrich's 66 hemiwagon and was the other SS/GA wagon built to run against 428 Mustangs. We will be restoring dads wagon back to its purple lace paint job.
Nice Post ..
I remember seeing that car in Kecks garage about 1977 or 78
Always liked your fathers hardtop back in the day
The Curtin family is a class act
Posted By: bigdad
Re: The Whakee Wagon has moved to a new home .. - 06/13/09 01:58 AM
for a paint reference
Posted By: Anonymous
Re: The Whakee Wagon has moved to a new home .. - 06/13/09 03:34 AM
I got back from Nam and went by to see Gary. I saw the wagon in the shop and thought he had built a matching tow vehicle until I saw the big tires on the back. Gary said they were going after the AMX's. He said it should run 1/2 second under the current record.
Posted By: LSP
Re: The Whakee Wagon has moved to a new home .. - 06/13/09 02:25 PM
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Nice to see the sister car to my dads wagon in same area. Matt Curtin owns Gary Ostrich's 66 hemiwagon and was the other SS/GA wagon built to run against 428 Mustangs. We will be restoring dads wagon back to its purple lace paint job.
Your dad's car was my favorite of the two, do have any pics to share?, I'd like to do one as a B/SA, only issue is that little thing called money.
Posted By: 66Hemiwagon
Re: The Whakee Wagon has moved to a new home .. - 06/13/09 10:46 PM
Another photo of Matt Curtin's 66 wagon
Posted By: 66Hemiwagon
Re: The Whakee Wagon has moved to a new home .. - 06/13/09 11:04 PM
Photo of Matt Curtin's 66 wagon when starting restoration in 1988, car had yellow shag carpet on inside and paint job that said "hearse of a different color" absolutely ugly
Posted By: 66Hemiwagon
Re: The Whakee Wagon has moved to a new home .. - 06/13/09 11:13 PM
Photo of Matt Curtin's 65 a990 Dodge coronet raced at Marion SD in mid 70's was grand spaulding dodge car and was sold to Jim Van Zee. Neat old school paint job done by del star who also did Gary ostrichs cars including dads wagon. I have traded for a 65 coronet 2dr post car within the last month and will be putting it together this winter to run brackets at Marion & Humboldt Ia.
