Re: Mopar "race cars in motion" PICTURE thread
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The Pro Stock car was Steve and Weldon’s last race car. The tube chassis cars that were needed to compete was just more than Weldon wanted to do and Steve wanted out also. There are more pictures of this car in the “Classic Pro Stock Photos” thread below. Its demise is also chronicled. https://board.moparts.org/ubbthreads/show...rue#Post568707466HemiWagon has the doors and quarter panels hanging in the rafters of his garage!
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Re: Mopar "race cars in motion" PICTURE thread
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Well that's the end of the Weldon Christian "Race Cars in Motion" tribute. I know there are other photos of these cars in shoe boxes from Houston to Minneapolis. Please post them if you have any. These cars were raced in Oklahoma, Arkansas, Texas, Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Iowa, Indiana, Ohio and Minnesota.
Any comments on the history of these cars would be of great interest also.
Another of my favorite attached….
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Re: Mopar "race cars in motion" PICTURE thread
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01/03/10 04:39 PM
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Thanks allot those were great
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Don't forget, we race in SoDak too !!
Since 1967
Thunder valley dragways, Marion !
The lips of fools bring them strife, and their mouths invite a beating.Proverbs 18:6
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Re: Mopar "race cars in motion" PICTURE thread
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01/03/10 05:02 PM
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Thanks allot those were great ps
Don't forget, we race in SoDak too !!
Since 1967
Thunder valley dragways, Marion !
Daryl, You are welcome, I know we want photos of cars from every were, I just don't think the Christians made it to the Dakotas to race.
I left out Arizona, I know they went to the AHRA Winter Nationals at least once.
Jeez, to think we would leave Friday evening, tow to some place like Cedar Rapids or Brainerd and be back in time for work Monday morning. Then the next week we might go to a Saturday night race in Tyler Texas and then race Sunday in Paris, TX. Ah youth....
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Re: Mopar "race cars in motion" PICTURE thread
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The 66 car shown was later converted to a C/G car. This was one of the most fun racecars I have ever got to be around. With the injector stacks it looked cool and it was way different from the small block Chevys that ever one else ran. It was extremely low maintenance. About all we ever had to do was change the one pill in the fuel injection. The fuel injection was completely engineered by Chrysler with Hilborn and ran great right out of the box. This was a lot easier than changing all the jets and metering rods in the two AFBs that the injection replaced.
The car was quite successful in C Gas even though it was a tank. You all know how heavy those cars were to begin with but this one had to have ballast to get it to the 3,834 to make class (I think it was 9 pounds per cubic inch).
The only other modifications was a change to the stock (for 65) 12 to one pistons and ten inch tires (had to run seven inch tires in stock).
Another thing was that the car was intimidating. If I remember correctly the small block Chevy cars would run about 112 to 115 mph on the top end. The Hemi would run around 125mph. So even if the Chevy won (and that did not happen real often), the Hemi car would be closing on them so hard and go by so fast, they would think they won by the grace of God.
This shot was taken at what was Southwest Raceway, now Tulsa Raceway Park. If the guy in the other lane was not any further ahead at this point he was toast.
I love the '66 with the stacks, and that is a great story! It confirms the old addage: "If you can hear a Hemi coming up behind you, you already lost" Thanks for posting those.
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