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Soapy Sales Dragster
« on: October 28, 2013, 05:46:07 PM »
Hey Rio,

I see there is a Soapy Sales Dragster that has been restored in California.  Is the same you had or do you still have yours?

Your former crew guy,

Vince Deglinnocenti

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Re: Soapy Sales Dragster
« Reply #1 on: October 29, 2013, 05:30:53 AM »
Vince,
        the car that Tommy debuted at the CHRR is the Woody car that is Soapy Sales 2. The one that I have is #3, the Don Long chassis and the last of the front motor SS cars.

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Yeah, I am from the south--any further south and I would have been a bloody penguin.

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Re: Soapy Sales Dragster
« Reply #2 on: October 29, 2013, 07:08:17 AM »
I'm glad you still have it.  Did your car end up in Australia, then come back to the US?

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« Reply #3 on: October 30, 2013, 05:16:39 AM »
The first run that my car ever made was in Australia and I was there at the time. Actually I was standing alongside it when they fired it in the pits, the first time that it ever hit a lick. It came back to the US when Huff got his back motor Long car (driven in Oz by Ash Marshall) and Uyehara ran it a few times (he said 4 to 6 events) before he too went to a rear engine car. After that it worked its way down the food chain (A/D. A/ED, bracket car) before I found it.

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Re: Soapy Sales Dragster
« Reply #4 on: October 30, 2013, 11:23:54 AM »
Thanks Roo,

It's great that you have a car that means something to you and others.  It's in good hands.

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Re: Soapy Sales Dragster
« Reply #5 on: October 30, 2013, 11:30:19 AM »
Roo need to be encourage to take it off the wall and put it on the jig





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Re: Soapy Sales Dragster
« Reply #6 on: October 30, 2013, 09:21:52 PM »
No chance of the flood getting it up there. That January 1970 Hot Rod is bitchin.