1967/1968 Dick Harrell funny cars

[Belair62]

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You need to be the leader of this site and step up and show everyone pictures of your car as you found it(no matter what kind of shape it was in nor how much repair work has been done)and some during the restoration showing why you think you have a Dick Harrell car.

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This is a pretty weird statement...he IS the leader of this CLUB but for my 2 cents he really doesn't have to keep you happy...you have thrown around a lot of BS here Ratpack....coyly saying it may be a historical southern car...making references to people who know there were only 1 car but not naming anyone and since when did you become a funny car expert ?.....lets be realistic here..it's a funny car that was a POS and has probably been to 14 different hands and messed with each time...measuring magazine pics is pretty stupid. Just what is your whole interest in this anyway...tell me its just your historical interest right ? Lets face it..you , Val, Pulde or Timmy wouldn't know what the real Harrell car looked like if it walked up and bit them in the ass...most people wouldn't, myself included. All you can go by is what you can dig up and what people "who were there" tell you..Look at what happened when Pudle made the call on the Kirby car...he said it will never be a real Harrell car back then...they all peed on themselves and fawned over Toms car... now all of a sudden a message from the spirits or something and the [censored] hits the fan. Looks pretty obvious doesn't it ? If it were my car I would have the sandpaper out already whether it was Dicks car or not. All this really does is give people a chance to spank their little chubby because they think they finally are creating havoc with their arch enemy Tom ...hey maybe they want to steal the Gibb name and license the Harrell name and stop all the evil websites from using those name without paying . This is a joke...these are cars and personal vendettas are for kids...but I guess if YOU have a "leader" that has absolutely nothing else to do but worry about how he can destroy the SYC it will go on forever...why don't people just tell him to screw off ? Tom...you guys can delete this...or fire me or whatever...this is just too much of a laugh for me...these are some strange birds and for me to try and be objective and try to pretend this is all about the funny car would be an insult to my intelligence....

[LVCamaro]

[Rick H]

Breath Bob, breath, in and out, in and out, that's it.

Rick H.

[Belair62]

Thats why I like 409's

[Rick H]

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Thats why I like 409's

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And I bet she's real fine.

Rick H.

[Steve Shauger]

There are a lot of people that feel the same way you do Bob, but...


This hobby is about havin fun with your buddies and true enthusiast. Lets focus what make this site great the PEOPLE and our CARS.

[JChlupsa]

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Tom...you guys can delete this...or fire me or whatever

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Guess a promotion to senior moderator is in order, FIRE YOU HELL NO!!!!!!

[Rat_Pack]

Bob, first off this is nothing personal towards Tom or anyone else on this site but some are trying to make it personal. As for my interest in funny cars, I have had one since 1970 after watching Dick, Don Prudhomme, Tom McEwen, and others racing at Bristol. I have been watching the posts on the other website and when you have an outsider, whether posting here or there, comes on and shows obvious evidence that a car is bogus then one has to wonder why it wasn't caught during the restoration. I have never been an expert on funny cars but I am an expert when it comes to researching a topic, ask Kim Howie . I made a post stating something and then he came back and challenged it. Then what happened HE and I found out the truth talking on the phone and came to the same conclusions. We were both wrong, and both were right in the end.

I just read on the other site that Bob Gibson, who IS a funny car expert, has just stated what everyone wanted to know in the first place: Tom's car is not a Dick Harrell car and in fact it is the Huston Platt Dixie Twister. Congrats Tom!!! A "Southern" drag car found!!!.............RatPack....................

[sYc]

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....I just read on the other site that Bob Gibson, who IS a funny car expert, has just stated what everyone wanted to know in the first place: Tom's car is not a Dick Harrell car and in fact it is the Huston Platt Dixie Twister. Congrats Tom!!! A "Southern" drag car found!!!.............RatPack....................

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Kind of interesting you mention Bob Gibson. The very first show we had the car at was the Hot Rod Reunion in Bowling Green, KY, parked in the American Racing Wheel booth, a guest of who else? Yep, Bob's. He even gave us a set of center caps for the rear wheels, and put a deal together for me to buy a set of headers from the '69 car. The 3rd show was Etown, where Bob was at as well. No time did he ever mention to Mo or I that he saw issues with the car.

And I have heard that Dave Libby has denounced the car as well. He too has spent considerable time with the car, and until now, never questioned the car's heritage, at least to Mo or I.

To the point now, hard to know who and/or what to believe when even the "experts" cannot cannot make up their minds about what is real and what is not?

[55chevy]

FYI.. http://forums.hotrod.com/ubbthreads/...p;page=0#87336

wonder who "annomyous" is...