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Social => Your Builds / Photo Gallery => Topic started by: andrewb on August 12, 2014, 10:24:15 AM
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Made the winners circle in Top Eliminator last weekend at Woodburn. Final run was the slowest of the weekend with a 7.70 @ 180 mph. Been having crank issues and had to change the #3 rod bearing after every pass.
Andrew
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Congradulations. How many RED butts did you kick to get the win?
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Congratulations Andrew, it’s those tough battled ones you remember the most. DF
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Congradulations. How many RED butts did you kick to get the win?
FED only class but what Andrew didn't tell you is this is a 300ish cubic inch injected nitro early Desoto hemi high gear only with a clutch! Oh yes and this is a recreation of Earls FED that he ran at the Winternationals in 1967 with and still owns that car also really cool family!
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Or that we beat a Blown Alcohol Donovan Hemi to win. My wife runs the 1967 Cassidy car, also with a Desoto Hemi. Unfortunately we didn't get the connecting rods back in time for the race. Here's a pic of brother vs sister from last year.
Andrew
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That's just awesome!
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Great looking cars. I like that you guys are running injected De Soto's.
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Here's a cool picture I just found on FB today of Earl Floyd running one of the Albrich-Floyd-Coonrod Northwind cars they said it was #2 or #3
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Earl picked this up over the weekend and he's hinting around at maybe getting it back on the strip next year with the possibility of running a blown alky Desoto. "The Stinger" was originally owned by Guy Allen and was a Jr. Fueler running an injected nitro 301 Chevy. Here's a few pics of it then and now. I can imagine running another car. We have the driver, just not enough crew for all the cars, which would pretty much just being me.
Andrew
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Guy Allen,is that the brother of Jeb Allen? I think Jeb's Jr Fuel dragster was called The Wasp?
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I think Jeb was Guy's son. Guy's brother was Ed who drove both the Stinger and the Wasp.
Andrew
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Actually Guy's kids were Ed, Les and Jeb. The older boys ran the Stinger and the Wasp junior fuellers and later Les ran top fuel in the original Praying Mantis before Jeb started driving. Really the Stinger should be restored as it is a car with interesting documented history. I would be willing to trade a new chassis package for it so that the history could be preserved.
Roo
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Thanks for correcting me Roo.
Andrew
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That car ran with us for a couple of years neat old car
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That's a great offer Roo. The history of our sport needs to be saved. I hope you can save the car.
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That's a great offer Roo. The history of our sport needs to be saved. I hope you can save the car.
And a generous offer
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Roo, if you can put that deal together, I have a pair of the light weight Schwin wheels that I think were run on that car.
I'll start beating the bushes for some tires for the wheels, they are 16". I can get uni tread tires, but I'll see if I can find better looking tires.
Jon, Hayden Wheels, 805-444-4489
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Well, we're working on adding another vehicle to the Floyd flock. My wife's son Bryon has been showing a lot of interest this year (well, last year), so I pulled out this 1963 Dart that's been sitting at Earl's for over 5 years. I plan on building the 225 slant 6 with a few performance enhancements. Can't make it too strong because I'm leaving in the tranny or the heavy duty 7 1/4" rear end ::) Looks like we have a little cancer to be removed/replaced. It's really hard for me to stop chasing it all down but I really need to stop at some point or it will never get completed.
Andrew
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Last weekends power block built a slant 6
Wait through the ads and you can see the build here
http://www.powernationtv.com/episode/EP2015-02/sweet-slant-six (http://www.powernationtv.com/episode/EP2015-02/sweet-slant-six)