Check out Brandon Beach as he puts his fathers gorgeous '58 Chevy Belair gasser on the bumper! Brandon's father Ted, while telling me the history of the car noted that when he let his son take over racing the car in '13 it came with one stipulation, son you break it you fix it! This '58 Chevy has an interesting story behind it as Brandon explains:
The car was originally built and raced by Frank Marshall back in the late 60s/early 70s. The name "Daddy's Thing" came from him having seven daughters. It was a regular in the Run Tuff Eliminator class at Oswego Dragstrip and also ran at US30, Lake Geneva and Great Lakes Dragaway. Frank campaigned it until the late 70s when he sold it. It changed hands a couple of times and lost its name, and by the time we found it in the early 2000s it was in pretty rough shape. We fully restored it in 2006 to be a show car. It's still technically street legal as it's still fully insured and plated but street driving it would be pretty tough on the valve train we run in it now.
Bob Lehor from the Midwest Gassers approached us about racing the car and by 2008 it was back out on the track. My dad raced it until 2010 when he built his coupe. The 58 was too cool to sit there in the garage so my brother Joe with the 56 Chevy • BLOWN CRAZY! INSANE ID... and I brought it out for the 2013 Meltdown Drags and raced it together until he got his car finished. Today we race in both the Midwest Gassers and Nostalgia Gassers Racing Association. Its best time so far is 9.932 and its best speed is 135.27.
540 C.I. Big Block Chevy, Tunnel Ram with 2 750 Holley Carbs, Brodix Aluminum Heads, 400 Turbo Trans, still running the same Olds/Pontiac rear end it's had since it was built originally. Weighs 3,705 lbs with me in it.
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22 апр 2019
