BEREJIK drag car

[Pulnaway]

This is not my auction, but thought it was cool and got me wondering about the rest of the car?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1968-69-OLDSMOBILE-HURST-442-CUTLASS-BEREJIK-OLDS-DOORS-DRAG-RACING-NEEDHAM-MASS-/230988026564?pt=Motors_Car_Truck_Parts_Accessories &fits=Year%3A1968%7CMake%3AOldsmobile&hash=item35c 7f592c4&vxp=mtr

[old5.0]

Looks like this one.

[PeteLeathersac]

That's it!
Shame if the car's gone, especially being a Post!
Lakeland Dragway, Memphis?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1968-69-OLDSMOBI...57#ht_851wt_909 (http://www.ebay.com/itm/1968-69-OLDSMOBILE-HURST-442-CUTLASS-BEREJIK-OLDS-DOORS-DRAG-RACING-NEEDHAM-MASS-/230988026564?fits=Year%3A1968%7CMake%3AOldsmobile& pt=Motors_Car_Truck_Parts_Accessories&hash=item35c 7f592c4&vxp=mtr&nma=true&si=P754irhKMA4C5BObUC0YWQ ML9B0%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l 2557#ht_851wt_909)

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~ Pete

[Peter426]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: old5.0</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Looks like this one. </div></div>

It <span style="font-style: italic">is</span> that one...a damn shame it ended up getting stripped. Who knows what shape its previous owners (read: beaters) let it degrade to leading up to it getting parted out.

http://imageshack.us/a/img801/9756/berejikoldsleftsidedr.jpg

http://imageshack.us/a/img842/1973/berejikoldsrightsidedr.jpg

Here's a photo of this sedan's hardtop brother at some car show.

http://imageshack.us/a/img845/5507/berejik68autoshowa.jpg

http://imageshack.us/a/img837/7420/berejik68442.jpg

Pete

[69L78Post]

The car's from Needham, Mass, it's probably New England Dragway.

[HO455]

Man…what a cool car. That is very sad that it was not restored. Thanks for all the great photos. The Berejik Oldsmobile dealer sure sold some cool cars &quot;back in the day&quot;!

[NOCOPO]

Let me get with George Berejik and ask. I think I still have his contact information. I worked around the corner from their Dealership in Needham. It closed a long time ago but he kept a lot of his collection and was a great guy to chat with.

[daverd]

Here's
The story on the Berejik
68 442 ( George told me about it a while back )
The first 68 442 he had was destroyed in a towing
Accident along with the tow car .
George sold the 68 post coupe to two brothers
Geoge kept in touch with one of them
Occasionally.( the brothers had an argument
About the car) so the car was scrapped .
George found out called the junk yard
But the car had already been cut up
And the rest crushed ..
Some one had ended up with the doors
I remember seeing them for sale
At a car show - swap meet a few years back
For about 300 bucks
The current owner has been trying to sell
Them for a few years ...

[daverd]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Peter426</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: old5.0</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Looks like this one. </div></div>

It <span style="font-style: italic">is</span> that one...a damn shame it ended up getting stripped. Who knows what shape its previous owners (read: beaters) let it degrade to leading up to it getting parted out.

http://imageshack.us/a/img801/9756/berejikoldsleftsidedr.jpg

http://imageshack.us/a/img842/1973/berejikoldsrightsidedr.jpg

Here's a photo of this sedan's hardtop brother at some car show.
Looks like the old Hynes auditorium to me ......
http://imageshack.us/a/img845/5507/berejik68autoshowa.jpg

http://imageshack.us/a/img837/7420/berejik68442.jpg

Pete </div></div>

[markjohnson]

Wow! The last dial-in is even still on the window. The doors are very cool to see but sad at the same time to realize the car didn't survive.

[olredalert]

----Woody Woodland and Bob Andresen were like celebraties around the Boston area street and drag racers. GTOs had a really hard time getting by them and rarely did. Andresen was a wizard with the engine and the set-up and Woody must have had a hair trigger when it came to the lights......Bill S

[scuncio kid]

Is this one of their cars

[olredalert]

----Yup! You can just make out their names on the front fender......Bill S

[smoke' em II]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: scuncio kid</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Is this one of their cars </div></div>

Do you have a larger photo of this car to post, as I would like to save a copy?

[olredalert]

----Im not totally sure but if you go to google pictures with 1970 442 w30 I think you will find this pic there somewhere......Bill S

[Hawkeye]

Quite a few photos if you go looking.

http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/pics/usergals/2013/08/full-5526-6298-70_berejik.jpg
http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/pics/usergals/2013/08/full-5526-6300-1970_berejik_w_30_442_post_21. (http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/pics/usergals/2013/08/full-5526-6300-1970_berejik_w_30_442_post_21)
http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/pics/usergals/2013/08/full-5526-6301-berejik.jpg
http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/pics/usergals/2013/08/full-5526-6302-berejik_olds.jpg

Is this the first 68 that was destroyed in the towing accident?
http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/pics/usergals/2013/08/full-5526-6303-olds.jpg



Marty

[Hawkeye]

http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/pics/usergals/2013/08/full-5526-6304-1970_berejikw_30.jpg

[sYc]

Cool looking car... <<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/biggthumpup.gif

[PeteLeathersac]

Note the W30 red frt. inners also Smothers Bros. on the rear flanks in some pics.
Love that B-Pillar!
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~ Pete

[Astock]

How about the cool headers.

[HO455]

I have original ads in which the Berejik dealer was building all out Oldsmobile W-machines. Does anyone now exactly what kind of things they were doing back then? I imagine it was something similar to Motion Performance.

I remember a very nasty built 1969 W-30 at the Olds Nationals in 1983 that came from the Berejik dealership with those exotic headers. I know they were a huge player in Olds performance and directly connected to Oldsmobiles’ back-door program. I have heard George Berejik still has a large collection.

They were one of the Oldsmobile dealers offering the Shelby Series-1 cars with the Olds Aurora engines even into the 90s.

What a cool bye-gone era when America was great! Thanks for all the cool pictures! <<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/biggthumpup.gif

[olredalert]

----Headers are &quot;Tubies&quot; ie: &quot;Tubular Automotive&quot;. I think Andresen always used Tubies as did a bunch of New England racers. T.Auto. was famous for running the 1st two pipes forward and then under the crossmember. Road clearance was a real issue, but most of us just accepted it as part of the equation. Besides which,,,they just looked sooooo cool from the front. Tuby equipped cars used to scare the heck out of everybody even if you had a slug.......Bill S

[old5.0]

Short but interesting article on Berejik and the Smothers Brothers here:

http://www.cartechbooks.com/blog/berejiksmothersandoldsmobile/

[HO455]

Thanks so much for all the great information. I have always been interested in the Berejik dealership. It looks like Dale Smith was trying hard to keep the racers supplied even with all the opposition from GM.

Thanks also for the info on those headers. Those headers always looked so cool! I still vividly remember them on that Berejik prepped 1969 W-30 that I saw at the 1983 Olds Nationals. I know I still have a good picture of that car somewhere. <<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/flag.gif

[smoke' em II]

Marty, Thank you for posting the pictures! Interesting to see the grills sag in the middle and the ram air hood drooping on the drivers side even back then.

[olredalert]

----John,,,I saw your mention of all out Berejik race cars and couldnt help but remember a good friend of mine who bought a 68 Hurst Olds from Berejik and then proceeded to have just about every possible thing he could have done,,,done! Engine pulled and compression bumped along with serious cam change. Dual quads, gear change to 4:33s, good ignition, etc. Tubies and Corvair turbo muffs. Way loose convertor and serious shift kit. That thing was a bad machine.....Bill S

[daverd]

The 70 Berejik 442 w30 race car still exists
Sitting in a run down garage
Without a drivetrain in it
The guy of course won't sell it....
( George B sold it w out the drivetrain...or o.a.i.
Hood!!

[HO455]

Hey Bill…Wow that 1968 H/O sounds very cool! I have always thought the Berejik dealership built some serious Oldsmobile performance cars out of their dealership. That sounds very much like a Motion/Markowitz type of program. Thanks so much for sharing the story on the H/O. Too bad, there are no pictures from back in the day of the car. However, people very often did not think to take pictures back then.

[daverd]

They were the motion of Oldsmobile
So to speak ...

[HO455]

I was very saddened to hear about the passing of George Berejik. I was fortunate to have spoken with him one time at a large Oldsmobile gathering. He was truly one of the nicest and most incredibly knowledgeable Oldsmobile enthusiasts out there.

We spoke for a long time about his family dealership and all the incredible Oldsmobiles' that passed through their historic doors. He talked about his extensive Oldsmobile collection. He also spoke at length about his relationship with Olds engineer Dale Smith. He said Dale would provide him with any of his requests through Oldsmobile’s extensive back-door racing program. He said Dale would on occasion bring him to Olds experimental engineering in Lansing to see many of the Olds high performance projects he was working on including very exotic racing engines, transmissions, rear ends etc… of every design and configuration imaginable. He said Dale would supply his racing teams with serous hardware to always help make them competitive.

It is very sad news that Mr. Berejik passed away. He will be sorely missed by the Olds community. My thoughts and prayers are with his family.

http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/pics/usergals/2015/03/full-2017-23268-george_berejik.jpg

[HO455]

Dave was interested in seeing pictures of the 1969 Berejik Olds 442 W-30 from the 1983 Oldsmobile Nationals in Itasca, Illinois. I thought others might be interested in seeing the car as well. Here are a few pictures of the Berejik Olds with the exotic headers along with a few of the other beautiful W-30s at the show. I got to know Olds collectors Phil Renouf &amp; Ed Van Dril around the time of this show. Phil had the exquisite 1971 Matador Red &amp; black W-30 convertible auto and Ed Van Dril had his beautiful 1972 442 W-30 convertible auto in white &amp; black. They are both great guys!

I included a few good shots of the always lovely Linda Vaughn for all you nature lovers. <<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/worship.gif I also threw in a couple shots of my 1969 Hurst/Olds which I had at this specific 1983 Olds Nationals, but I can’t find those pictures. It had 27,000 miles on it when I bought in 1982. I had just graduated H.S. I also included a picture of the traveling Olds hemi from the 1983 Olds Nats. Lastly I found a cool shot of the very rare LS-6 Chevelle convertible at a local show here in Chicago around that same time period. I was just a kid when these shows were on and now to think I’m an old man. Where does the time go? Thanks for looking - John <<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/flag.gif Happy Memorial Day



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[Xplantdad]

Cool shots! The last picture looks like the Bob Fuller LS6?

[mockingbird812]

Distinct rear bumper pad! <<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/naughty.gif

[olredalert]

----I believe you are correct, Bruce. I think Bob took off the &quot;450hp&quot; before he sold it. How many guys ordered a fairly loaded LS6 Vert new and opted out of the cowl induction option? I just cant remember seeing the &quot;450hp&quot; back in 1978/79 when I 1st saw his Vert, but it could have been there......Bill S

[daverd]

Great stuff !!
Thanks John

[Stefano]

Kool Stuff.