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It shows here
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The Super John car looks to have no front brakes in this picture.
They may have installed them for some races depending on track rules. There was very little rules for match racing. Same with the drag chutes, you see them on the cars in some pictures and not in others. They may have used them where there were short shut down lanes or to meet track rules. In the pic of the car underside you can see a hook bracket in the trans tunnel. That was to hook up the chute line and you see some chute lines hanging under the cars. The fiberglass nose looks close to a steel nose. You can see a difference in the parking lights and the notch cutouts under the bumper in the steel lower valance and the steel has seems where the metal parts bolt together vs no seems for fiberglass. Grady Bryant and Dick Harrell were funny car drivers so they knew how to run the match races. The Funny Car drivers liked the clutch turbo hydro transmissions because a Nitro funny car was a real hand full to drive with a 4 speed. Harrell built a bunch of 69 Camaro drag cars with the clutch turbo hydro. Grady's car looks light from what I can tell , fiberglass front, no front brakes, one seat, plexi glass windows , maybe fiberglass trunk lid and drag chute |
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It was a report in a Magazine that Dick Harrell who prepared a Camaro for Street Race and they put in the new Turbo Clutch gearbox. They even put in a big engine like 496, I dont remember the exact engine size, read about it in Hamb 10-15 years ago. It was about Street racing and about the quarter million quarter mile race. They also wrote that a man from the East Coast showed up with a bag full of money and he bought a race car. Makes me believe that it was Heavy who bought 70 Camaro from Dick Harrell
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In one of the most famous street races documented in a Cars Magazine article, the Super John Camaro ran the Mutt Brothers Hemi dart.
The Dart was the old S&K Speed Inc. Hemi Dart. It was called the "Quarter Million Quarter Mile" street race. Each side put up $125K cash and the race was run near Kennedy Airport From what I read, Harrell built the Super John Camaro from a "body in white" body shell from Chevy and may have been acid dipped. The engine was said to be a ZL1 block larger then 427 so maybe a 454 or 494. It is hard to confirm the stories. The Dart won |
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Was just looking stuff up with this race!
Found this: Here it is in 1970. In 1969, an 'original' COPO' All-Aluminum 427 that ran NHRA SS/C. And AHRA S/SE with the 'Tunnel Ram'. In November 1969 it was purchased less engine and transmission. The new engine was an 'aluminum head' 427 backed by a TH400 that ran in A/MP." Not sure if it was L72 COPO or ZL1 COPO!!! Post #8 https://classracer.com/classforum/sh...ad.php?t=46048
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