Allen Johnson sent this to me this weekend....

Great picture. I remember watching Roy race alot through the 80s. He ran the Tennessee Thunder car and he also drove a 65 Belvedere that was owned by Mark Klein (great guy).

ran against that 65 Dodge 'Tennesse Thunder" many times. He ran plenty fast.Never remember a 65 Plymouth? What ever happened to Mark?

that 65 car was my first race car my dad ray wilkes bought it off of john livington when roy was driving it, that was the first car i ever drove down a race track my first run was a 10.17 back in 1982 the week before indy I made 1-run then took it to indy runner-up for class against richard griffin in steve bagwell car and drove it to the semi,s sold it to somebody in kentucy, joey wilkes

heres another.........

My brother owns that plymouth in that picture. Jake

Plymouth I don't know when I'll run it first it depends on how much I redue on it.,Heres a pic I believe John told me he got down to 4 cars at the 68 winter nationals............Cool Bucky

WOW! Thanks for sharing that pic of the 65, way cool . That's the car that became the Southland Flyer, right? That was maybe a little before my time. Ralph thanks for those pics of Tennessee Thunder and The Mountain Hemi. There was none better looking at that time than the Mountain Hemi cars. Joey, I was going to mention that earlier about you guys buying that car, I remember John sold it to some Yankee and Roy didn't get to drive it at Indy that year. Sal I wonder what happened to Mark also. He teamed up with Jeff Taylor on those SS Camaros for awhile then that was it.

Here is my 65 SS Hemi im hoping to have done for this spring..

NoJoke

Picture of the Motor

Looking good Robert. Keep the progress photos coming!

Looks like that will be one awesome ride!! I'm a new member, even though I've been reading this board for quite some time now--Been a hemi s/s fan since I saw 3 Steve Bagwell cars @ Rockingham Dragway in the early 80's!!! Does anyone know what Rick Johnson has been up too?(ex-John Hagen car) haven't heard or seen any news about him in a while--
Thanks, John

Here is a photo I took at Indy '06. Not sure if he still races or not.

Last I heard Rick parked the Cuda, and started racing his 64 Dodge again, as the Cuda was getting too valuable to race. His Cuda is Hagens RED car, that he raced in the early 70's, not his Green Cuda.

Jeff

Don"t know if it is true but someone said Rick Johnson was going to run a/sa with his Dodge.Maybe someone knows if it is true.

That is the car I have formerly John Livingstons.There is a picture of it when John had it on a previous post .Thanks I love it ,Bucky

Here's a nice shot of the Southland Flyer car, I just love these B-body monsters---Bucky, I hope you can mow some vettes down with it!!!

John

Buckey, you will love that 65. It's not the same animal as the 68 but they bare a great ride and lots of fun. I wouldn't trade my 2 for anything.