Old Drag Car Pictures......... - Page 23

Kim_Howie · #**221** 10-05-2009, 01:05 AM

The old funny car pics are great. Mr. Norms 65 dodge funny car, one of the pics is from the back of the car. The guy on the left is Gary Dyer. Very young in that picture.

**Mr70** · #**222** 10-05-2009, 01:12 AM

That's who that is..WOW!,you're right..is he young there.

**kwhizz** · #**223** 10-05-2009, 01:25 AM

Neat Story about this car........

This is the Birthplace of the Chitown Hustler.......John Farkonas built the car in his Garage and brought it out to Byron Dragway for the first time at a Major Area meet...Having never seen the car before I spent a good amount of time looking at it as it was Engineered better than anything else that was around at the time.......Farkonas was a "Sliderule" Pocket Protector guy that built a car ahead of it's time, but wasn't a tuner or driver....which was evident after his first pass...LOL...anyhow, Austin Coil came over to look at the car and gave John some tuning tips and Tuned the car (which John appeciated)......Don't remember what it ran, but it scared the Hell out of Farkonas.......so , he asked Coil to drive ( at the time Coil was a Chrysler Mechanic and raced a Hemi Plymouth)......But Austin didn't want to drive it either.......one of Austins friends, Pat Minnick (who was a Chicago Policeman) came walking by and Austin knew Pat had the Balls to get in the car....Pat drove the car that day and they won the meet.......And....That's how it all started

**Xplantdad** · #**224** 10-05-2009, 02:47 AM

Very cool stuff Ken!

ORIGLS6 · #**225** 10-06-2009, 11:07 PM

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I remember that car and agree with Ken. The car was impressively built.

Also forgot about the CT Engineering association. Jack Ditmars carried that on "Lil Screamer" and "Der Mini Brute".

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Basesjuiced · #**230** 02-14-2011, 04:38 PM

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Jerry@CHP</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I think Dana Mecum bought the 67 L78 Camaro this past year. I know that L. Kimball wanted one million for it. Don't know what the actual sales transaction was.

Jenkins sold the 68 L89 Camaro to Carmen Rotonda and it's location is not known. The 69 L78 is also still missing in action.

Jerry </div></div>

Hi, I know this is kind of a late response but, I'm Larry Kimball's grandson. He sold the camaro that he restored for 750,000. I would know, I counted all the cash. I believe it was sold to guy who was going to put it in a museum in PA. I can't really remember all the details from where this guy was from or where he was putting it, as I was only 12 or 13 at the time. If you guys' have any more questions just reply here and I'll do my best to help you out [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/smile.gif[/img]