Re: Bill Thomas Chevy II Fastback
 

WOW! That's a great photo, Meagan. Thanks for posting and I look forward to seeing more.

Re: Bill Thomas Chevy II Fastback
 

Andy, you know who bought the car from Gordon Apker? Apker was the last person we knew to have the car. When Apker sold it he wouldn't tell my dad who he sold it to (why will be explained in my dad's post later). It would be so great if I could get him the contact of the new owner!! I'll email you. I just looked on my photobucket page and I don't have a picture with the CKC car scanned. My dad would be very interested in talking with him! Very cool!

Bud! I had showed my dad your post and yesterday he told me he had talked to someone about your mystery car and that someone was going to talk to another person who knew a lot of the cars from where yours came from. I'll ask him tomorrow to see if he's heard anything. And no pictures to show of even what you have??

I have so many pictures, it's killing me not to post them. LOL! Soon!

http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/c...ertificate.jpg

Re: Bill Thomas Chevy II Fastback
 

Andy, a man from another board offered his pictures and I saw the CKC on there. He said we were free to download them for ourselves.

http://rides.webshots.com/album/559429288TNdBjZ

Also, have you read this article? I just found it tonight.

http://www.draglist.com/artman2/publish/...ly_Sed_52.shtml

Re: Bill Thomas Chevy II Fastback
 

Here are the pictures that Andy B asked me to post for him.

http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b1...s/tn_nova1.jpg

http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b1...s/tn_nova3.jpg

http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b1...s/tn_nova4.jpg

http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b1...s/tn_nova5.jpg

http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b1...s/tn_nova6.jpg

http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b1...s/tn_nova7.jpg

http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b1.../tn_nova10.jpg

Re: Bill Thomas Chevy II Fastback
 

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Re: Bill Thomas Chevy II Fastback
 

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~ Pete
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Re: Bill Thomas Chevy II Fastback
 

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Andy,

The car looks decent. https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...iggthumpup.gif This is great! -getting owners/drivers and the history out on these cars. Do you know much of its history? Does it still have the fiberglass doors and front clip?

Hey Meagan, Nice certificate.

Paul

Re: Bill Thomas Chevy II Fastback
 

Hi Meagan, I'm a friend of your brother's from his Sunset Chev days. I think you were 12 or so last time I saw you! I've been looking for info on the fastback Nova for a while now. I knew Gordon Apker sold it and it left the area, but I haven't seen much more about it. I passed up the chance to buy that car for a few hundred from that guy in White Center in the 80's. What was his name? The city was going to impound it, so he just wanted it gone. It was really rough, the chassis was long gone so I passed on it. Gordon Apker ended up with it a short time later. Anyway, I'm glad you are getting your dad's pics and stories posted, it's fascinating stuff. Give your dad a belated happy birthday from me, and tell Scoop to stop by sometime.

Re: Bill Thomas Chevy II Fastback
 

Cool stuff Meagan, keep it coming!

Re: Bill Thomas Chevy II Fastback
 

This is the shot I aways remember
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Re: Bill Thomas Chevy II Fastback
 

Just found this in my archives. My apologies if it's already been posted.

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...27TJ/00024.jpg

Re: Bill Thomas Chevy II Fastback
 

Bill, Any pics of (my old) #27 Alan Green ZL-1 when it was fairly new and still a Super Stock drag car. When I bought #27, circa 1975 it was Candy Red in Modified Eliminator with zero lettering.......

Thanks,

Re: Bill Thomas Chevy II Fastback
 

Sorry Chuck, I got nuthin' for ya. https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/frown.gif

Chevy II in British Saloon Car Racing During 1962
 

Good afternoon - Thanks in part to information posted on this site, I was able to finish my article on a pair of Chevy II's that raced in Britain during 1962. The cars were driven by Chuck Kelsey & Peter Sachs. The article appears in the May/Jun issue of "Vintage Motorsport" magazine under the title "Chuck and Pete's Excellent Adventure". The cars were built at Bill Thomas in California and Smokey Yunick's in Florida. The duo would win a couple of rcaes, beating the all conquering (until that point) Jaguar Mk II's.
"Vintage Motorsport is available on newsstands or electronically at https://shop.vintagemotorsport.com/collections/issues
Take care, Mike Matune

Mike, Sounds good, will look for the mag. I remember seeing some pics of the race years ago.

Paul

Mike, Great Article!

I believe the original short one I read was from a Canadian mag. Didn't know/remember there were two cars.

So after the Thomas car was built and appeared in two magazines, it returned to Thomas for big Pass-car brakes and 15" wheels (like Bad Bascom). Hopefully at that time they installed the heavy front springs and wonder if rears were done also as the Hard Top had the softest. Too bad this car was lost in a storage fire.

I do wonder if the Florida built car had the full V8 kit of components. Thomas was lacking a few items in the March '62 article (Chevy II Block, Oil Pan & HD Front Springs). The HD brakes had metallic linings but still stock size (9" x 2.25" Front & 9" x 1.75" Rear). It wasn't until '64 they increased to 9" x 2.5" F & 2" R.

Interesting that both were white cars.


Paul

Road Racing Chevy IIs
 

Paul,


So very glad you liked the article.


The story you may have seen on these cars appeared in the March 1963 issue of "Sports Car Graphic" magazine. It was written by Chuck Kelsey and only talked about his car. The "Hot Rod" and "Car Life" stories on the Kelsey car are posted earlier in this thread.


Peter Sachs remembers an article being published on his car during 1962. He thought it was in a British publication. We could never locate that article. If anyone knows more about it, please let me know.


There was a V8 Chevy II road raced in Canada by Fred Hayes with sponsorship from Comstock International. He was successful with the car, but as far as we could determine never raced outside of Canada.


Thanks again for your kind words.


Take care,


Mike