Super Chevy Show @ St. Louis, MO.

[Postsedan]

Just returned from a great weekend at Super Chevy in St. Louis, MO.
Big Congrats go out to Greg Cullum for winning <span style="font-weight: bold">&quot;BEST in SHOW&quot;</span> and the Best Outstanding Engineerded Award.

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Dan

[CC Rider]

Congrats!

[Postsedan]

Hey Nancy and Randy....Look who else won <span style="font-weight: bold">&quot;Top Best 10&quot;</span>award. None other than Rick Layne with his beautiful 1966 Malibu.

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Dan

[Postsedan]

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Dan

[Postsedan]

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Dan

[Postsedan]

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Gone, but not forgotten!

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[Postsedan]

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[Postsedan]

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[Postsedan]

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[Postsedan]

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Rich Nielson brought two very nice L78`s

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Dan

[Xplantdad]

Thanks for the pics Dan! <<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/youguysrock.gif

[Woj]

Dan,

Congrats to you and Greg for the &quot;Best of Show&quot; award for the Chevelle convertible. I can't imagine how much time and effort went into the project.

Thanks for the great pix.

Looked like a great show.

Phil Woj

[BUQUICK]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Postsedan</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Just returned from a great weekend at Super Chevy in St. Louis, MO.
Big Congrats go out to Greg Cullum for winning <span style="font-weight: bold">&quot;BEST in SHOW&quot;</span> and the Best Outstanding Engineerded Award.
Dan </div></div>

After seeing Greg's '69 in person, I'm not surprised that he took Best of Show. It's a really outstanding car. Congrats!

Oh, and thanks for posting the photos of the other cool Chevys too.

[Mr70]

Hats off to Dave Ellis,for spending so much time &amp; money to get his factory L-78 396/375HP Convt.back to it's original drag racing trim condition.
He spent many years painstakingly researching it,and finding the few parts it was missing.
Many obstacles stood in Dave's way,many people tried to screw him,but he refused to let that overcome him &amp; kept going forward.
That's Dave in the wheelchair to the left,behind the car in the 1st pic.
A true testament to what's inside a man.

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[Plowman]

Nice pictures,thank you.

[77Z28]

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Thanks for the pictures! I never could understand why Chevy put the stripes just above the windsheild on convertibles. Just looks stupid.

[ORIGLS6]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Mr70</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Hats off to Dave Ellis,for spending so much time &amp; money to get his factory L-78 396/375HP Convt.back to it's original drag racing trim condition.
He spent many years painstakingly researching it,and finding the few parts it was missing.
Many obstacles stood in Dave's way,many people tried to screw him,but he refused to let that overcome him &amp; kept going forward.
That's Dave in the wheelchair to the left,behind the car in the 1st pic.
A true testament to what's inside a man.

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So true Rick. Dave is an extremely nice guy. We see him every year at the LaHarpe event and he always has a smile and kind words.

Far too few people know about Dave, his struggles, and this car, ...... which happens to be a 'sister car' to the Truppi-Kling/Briggs LS6 driven b Ray Allen. Good to see him out &amp; about enjoying himself.

Great coverage Dan. Thanks a bunch!

[Plowman]

Hats off to Dave Ellis...

[Mr70]

Notice the '70 El camino front bumper on Daves' Chevelle,as it was when raced back then.
I kept telling him,you'd better put that on if returning to drag trim.

[sYc]

Awesome pics, thanks for posting.

Man, love that Chevelle drag car.

Great to see the Shockley's still showing Jim's Green Yenko

[mockingbird812]

Why the El C bumper? Is that a weight savings? Was this an L78 campaigned as an LS6? Cool car to be sure! Impressive ETs in stock class! What year was that Super Chevy magazine article.

Thanks!

[kwhizz]

Great pic's Dan.........Thanks for posting......

[Mr70]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: mockingbird812</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Why the El C bumper? Is that a weight savings? Was this an L78 campaigned as an LS6? Cool car to be sure! Impressive ETs in stock class! What year was that Super Chevy magazine article.

Thanks! </div></div>

Dave bought it in December of 1978 from Ray Batterson of White House,Ohio.
The car was a drag car with only 5,000 miles,it toured Indiana,Ohio,and Michigan Drag Strips in the mid 1970's.
It was campaigned as an LS-6 back then.That Elco bumper was put on for weight savings.
That Chevy Bible is dated 1976-77 on it's cover.
It sold new from Carl Schmidt Chevrolet on 350 Louisiana St.in Perrysburg OH.
Assembled with an L-78/375Hp engine originally,with TH400 trans,(1 of a hand full of'70 L-78 Cnvts.w/TH400 I know of to date),&amp; a 3:55 posi.
It had it's original 375HP engine pulled later on,(believed to have been blown up),&amp; a 454 LS-6 was soon installed along with 4:56 gears.It then ran in the low 11's.
Very heavily loaded with alot options,according to the build sheet.
Many years later it was painted Astro Blue and shown at many SChevy events.
Daves' cnvt.and my coupe were literally built within minutes,if not seconds of eachother as mine was 18 units ahead of his on the same assembly line that day.

In 1979,Dave bought a newer 1971 LS6 short block with all new parts &amp; installed it then.
Today Dave says he's not quite done &amp; has a few details to tend to,like installing a roll cage similar to what it was raced with.

[mockingbird812]

Thanks Rick. Good and intersting background! I love the little tricks they did back in the day to shave a few ozs and sneak it by the inspectors! <<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/naughty.gif