Hemi Powered Roadster's, T-Buckets, & Altered's.

Does anyone here know what ever happened to the old DeSantis & Crider A/SR Hemi powered roadster. I've always wondered what happened to it, or what became of it?

I don't know what became of it, but I remember when Francis Crider brought out the car with a Lenco and won at Columbus (in '73 I believe). Most Modified Eliminator cars were back-half cars with factory-type 4-speeds, this car was cutting edge. There was a feature story in the Dragster about the car, maybe ndragster could go look in his archives for us.

Edit: It was '74 Springnationals, driver was Joe DeSantis, who switched over to drag bikes.

I recall the article on that A/SR said it was basically a Pro Stock car with the roadster body on it. StewartP might be the guy that would know something about it.

A similar car was campaigned by Sanford Bolin out of Arkansas. I bought one of Sanford's old Barnett Hemis several years ago. The heads have RAZORBACK stanped above the exhaust ports. Sanford owns Razorback Transmission in Little Rock.

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I recall the article on that A/SR said it was basically a Pro Stock car with the roadster body on it. StewartP might be the guy that would know something about it.

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I remember seeing some photo's of the DeSantis & Crider A/SR roadster in some old hot-rod & popular hot-rodding magazine's. In fact I even recall seeing it having "Rod-Shop" lettering painted on the sides of it at one point. Are there any Rod-Shop guru's out there that might remember this old Hemi powered roadster that can shed some light on what happened to this old race car?