Ice racing a Vette in ‘53? Then and now once raced Nomad.

The story of the “Mongoose” ‘63 Corvette
 

It had many iterations, including stints powered by a 427 Ford and a 426 Hemi. Good new online documentary. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8uDiAk8pmg

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One of my most favorite photos!! Back in the day just having fun with my brand new Nova!!! Who knew Lions was gonna be famous some day??!!

And the Nova's still in my garage!!!


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One of my favorite pics :)

Especially when they dropped in half or more during the gas crunch of the 70s.
That’s really what did it, was the fact that these cars were discarded and not saved. High school kids across America were given cheap HP and good times due to a really bad economy. People who bought them new in many cases took a beating selling when down in the 70s.

Where I grew up every Italian still had a muscle car in the garage though. They never gave them up 😂 in fact my dad still had his …

As seen on the internet lately...

Some CT cars

First two were Al Oakes
Last one was Bob Gaudreau
Both of the Drag N Run club
Bristol CT

Thought you guys would get a kick out of out of this story about Bob the dawg gaudruea. He and my dad were best friends in high school

There’s some other great stories about these drag N run guys they were all pretty wild guys back in the day. Bob Gaudreau raced Chevies , Pontiac’s Hemi cudas tunnel port fords. Bob had a tin of cars !

Almost all of them were sponsored by local dealerships

Our L78 Nova I ordered Feb. 1969 and purchased April 69. Wife used it first two years we had it and the I raced it a few times each year from mid 70's to early 80's.