My ole Junk :)

[41chevy]

This is my 55 about 1965 when pop ran it 301, twin WCFB's Donatov 50/50 cam,4 speed with 57 Pontiac rear 5:13 welded spiders and 37 Ford V-8 60 front axle.
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Me and the car in 1974 when I put stock front suspension back in to street race. 427, tarantula manifold with 3 barrel Holly,Air Flow Research prepped heads,Isky roller cam,close ration M21 with Ford/ Detroit Locker rear with 6:17 gears. Pulled the engine in 1979/ 80 to run it in a FED and repowered it with a 4/71 b;own 400 SBC with a Vitar Clutch Flite.
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About 2009 Speedway gasser axle,new primer now powered by a 320 GMC six, Wayne crossflow head, Algon injection I made digital, unknown solid lifter cam, egge 11.5 to pistons and modified Clifford header all bolted to a B&M Hydr-stick. When the weather breaks I'll snap some engine pics.
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1973 NY Nation Speedway, Alcohol fueled 392, Torqueflite, Olds rear. Marino's Italian Ices from Brooklyn Sponsored it for a season. My wife is digging out a few more photos.
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Bronx Speed Shop sponsored my 427 Rat FED 1979 /80 at NY National
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My Cheater Challenger SS/C. Tech guy said he was a Mopar expert and NOBODY could put one over on him.
440 Six Pack, Mopar Super Stock Cam, Heads were 426 Max Wedge III heads from Buddy Bakers 64 Dodge NASCAR drag car. Runners where big enough to walk through ran like stick from 3000 to 6500. Intake was welded up to open the runners big enough to match the heads. Ran 3 secondary carbs instead of 2 and one primary.Would pedal it on money runs because it was a cheater car.Body had all sound deadening and seam sealer removed,carpet padding, all the guts from the heater box and all the glass was replaced with PPG aftermarket glass because it was thinner and lighter by almost 15 pounds.
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Only photo of my 396 powered 57 Chevy Handyman station wagon street racer.
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One of my current projects, a 56 Dodge with a 392 Hemi and a 6 year on going Valkyrie with ZF 6 speed transaxle with 2:93 gears and 383 GM crate engine, weighs in at 1920 pounds wet.
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[41chevy]

Forgot pop and my XKE

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You've had some serious iron in your day, for sure. Did you run the '55 on 1/8 strips back in the day? The 5.13 gears and definitely the 6.17 gears seem to lend themselves to the shorter track.

All of your hot rods are interesting, but that '55 has my attention. Must also be a favorite of yours considering all the different configurations you've thrown in it and the fact you've kept it around.

Thanks for posting. I, for one, would be real interested in more photos.

[david]

So you are really John Milner? What a cool bunch of Hot Rods!

[oldcoyote]

Those are some serious race cars ....... great looking stuff ..... I love the '55 Chevy ...... my very first car was a '55 Chevy hardtop ..... thanks for posting the pictures !

[70sprostockfan]

cool group of old race cars. It would be hard to pick a favorite out of this stash! How many of them have you built in scale? and when did you find time ? I was never as involved as you evidently but I was in it enough to realize how much time it takes to build and then keep some of that stuff up!

Those current projects look pretty sharp also. Please keep us updated on those.

Thanks man this is some cool stuff. If I had lived around the corner you would have had to run me away with a stick. (But I would have made a good gofer)

[41chevy]

Steve, I ran mostly 1/8 with the Chevy but would swap in a different pumpkin with 4:55 gears for 1/4 or street racing. The Chevy even set a national 1/8 record when pop had it. the Chevy in it's 56 years as a race car had been in 7 or 8 different configurations.
The Funny was built from cast offs except the body and trans. All it ever did was pop off the blowers, never ran well or competitively. Best time was 7.53 @ 179 not close to being a contender.

Oldcoyote if the 55 was uncut it would probably be worth something, It was a factory AC, power windows and power steering car originally.

Allen only one I've built is the 55 that's posted on here, none of the others.

[Pete L]

Paul,

IIRC the "ICE MAKER" had a blue & white paint scheme, I saw it a E-town.

[41chevy]

Mar 13, 2018 15:35:14 GMT -6 Pete L said:

Paul,

IIRC the "ICE MAKER" had a blue & white paint scheme, I saw it a E-town.

it did and the lettering, scheme was done by Brian Lilly who did murals and tattoos in Roslyn. My wife has stashed color photos of me and the car in my garage. We ran NY National, York, New England Dragaway, Hampton's, Atco and E Town. Never did well. English Town we launched the blower in to the tower. That didn't go over well at all. You're probably the only person who remembers the car.

[41chevy]

Mar 12, 2018 23:53:21 GMT -6 david said:

So you are really John Milner? What a cool bunch of Hot Rods!

I grew up in racers paradise! An hour or less from home we could go to Freeport and watch Modifieds, 3/4 midgets and jalopies run on a 3/16 mile oval. Go to Islip Speedway and watch the same as above on their 1/8 mile oval with Figure 8 and demo derbies, then walk across the parking lot to the 1/8 mile drag strip. Go to West Hampton Drag strip and run 1/4 mile NHRA, Go a bit farther to New York National Speedway run 1/4 mile AHRA /UDRA. Go to Bridge Hampton the the road race track and than to Riverhead Speedway which is the only track left now for 1/8 /figure 8 NASCAR.
N.Y. National was a year round track, clear the snow and run. Big enough to run 4 cars at once.
West Hampton was the first paved dedicated drag strip in the entire country when it opened in 1949.
We had Jack Merkel racing engines who also ran or sponsored 5 or 6 gassers, Bill Thomas of the Cheetah and World Power engines, Joel Rossen of Baldwin Motion, Levittown Ford who did FE Falcon and later Maverick new car swaps, S&K Speed who was a sponsor for Ivo Orange rail and was heavy into Pro Stock on the East Coast, Speedwin Automotive big in early to mid 1960's FX Mopars and Rockville Center Dodge who sponsored 3 Ramcharger Funny Cars for the East Coast. Bill Frick who did Fodallacs and Studallacs.

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[david]

You ought to do one of them "Reality TV Shows". It looks like it would a heck of lot more interesting than 99% of what's on there now! (And that's meant to be a compliment!)