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					Originally Posted by 67since67  Tom Akin's "Lead Sled". I was the Noob in the service dept. at Schukei Chevrolet when it rumbled into John Day's stall as a brand new car for prep as an AHRA stocker. L72/TH400. 4:56 or 4:88 IIRC. I believe 1 or 2 built?
 In the early eighties, now a street car, the second owner would occasionally park it outside the parts dept. at the other Chevy dealership in town where I was at the time. Where is it now, Washington state??
 
 A couple years ago Auto World produced a 1/64 scale of it.
 
 John Day who did the wrenching on the Lead Sled is still racing his alcohol injected SBC dragster at age 80.
 
 Bill W
 |  Yes - it is one of two L72 427 Station Wagons. The other is in the GM Heritage Collection:
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