What track was that second pic taken at?

Mountain Park in Kentucky

A friend of mine in Warren, Ohio bought the Challenger (minus engine and lenco) off of Lisk shortly after the car appeared at the Street Machine Nationals at Indy. I don't remember what year that was. Late 70's? He put a crossram Hemi and 727 in it along with a T/A hood in place of the Tunnelram hood.

The car was repainted after thieves broke into his garage and stole his tools. They dragged his tool boxes over the front of the car to get to the window. He was heart broken. He said he would have left his tools out in the driveway if it would have kept these kids away from the car. I think he only drove it a couple of times after the repaint and then it sat for a few years.

We lost track of the car after he sold it. Did either of you buy it from him? I think he might still have the engine and trans that he had in the car and if I remember correctly the Lisk engine and trans went into Lisk's brother's car. It's too bad the Lisk Challenger seems to have disappeared into obscurity. I concider it one of the pioneers of the ProStreet movement.

Here's a little trivia I have never seen printed anywhere. Mike Fons built the car for Steve out of a bunch of parts salvaged from a wrecked Prostock Colt. That's why the ladder bars where so short.

I thought the Lisk Challenger was in TX, maybe Houston, owned by a Moparts member.

Found him, he hasn't posted on Moparts in 3 years.
https://board.moparts.org/ubbthreads/show...ge=1&topic=

Here's is the pic in his sig.

Going by the pics that moprod posted, it has the older stripe layout.
I just seem to recall in a post that he had the car and posted a current pic, it doesn't have the same paint on it any longer.
This was all 4-5 years ago, the post is gone to double check so I may have it wrong.

I bought the car from John, who you were refering too. It had the tunnel ram hood on it when I bought it.
I bought it as a rolling car. I put the TA hood on it and painted the stripes. If I only knew then what I know now.

That burnout picture is one that I posted long ago when someone was asking about the car. Taken by a friend of mine.
Without a doubt, The Bullet and the Challenger will be long remembered in Mopar history.

John still doing ok? I think he had a F body car in the garage with the Challenger when I was there.

i remember lisks challenger and the silver mustang 2 at the nugget restaurant, orchard lake and 696,i believe they met thursday nights there, lisk was changing the spark plugs in the lot but i don't recall the race ever happened that night anyway. owner of the mustang name was ruggerello or something like that.

Joe Ruggerillo....roger that. He knew Wayne Gapp and Jack Roush personally. HELLeva' guy...and the deepest wallet I have ever seen.

I knew Steve Lisk(still has a gas/service station at Square Lake and Telegraph..?) ... but I don't think that Steve wanted ANY PART of that Ford.

I don't think they ever gave-it-a-shot.

made a trip to "Mister Fiberglass" once .
Picked up a 62 Plymouth hood from there.

THX for the biz moprod !

When there ....were you WOWed by the resin and gel-coat fumes ?

..... just like was reported in a Car Craft article by another guy !!

Here is the Car & Driver article on these cars from 1976.

Page 2