any opinions on text on front fender?

[black69]

here is a car of mine, and I always wondered what it said on front fender. any ideas? does that maybe say sox and martin? I know they hosted classes on driving. have no idea on what is over the front wheel either.


bob

[Bill Pritchard]

My guess on the black lettering in the body recessed area just behind the front tire is "Doug Thorley Headers"

[mockingbird812]

I can just make out: " Post current photos of this car in 42 years on the yenko.net site "

C L ride!

As a B/Stocker (I think) that has to have an ELEPHANT engine stuck between the shock towers and a 4 spd behind that!

[njsteve]

The rectangular HEMI emblem is directly behind the lower body line behind the wheel.

[GM-26]

Reminds me of the "Silver Bullet".

[x Baldwin Motion]

I think I got it....





"If you can read this your car is pointed the wrong way"

[markjohnson]

Hard to read, but that looks like Alton Dragway just out of St. Louis. What else do you know of the history of the car?

[black69]

after googling doug headers for 1970 time frame, that is exactly what that was. Never would have thought he would use smaller text for thorley. the little bid of red also gives it away. thanks on that.

car was raced in charleston IL and in indianpolis indy track for the most part, from what I know. The original owner died recently but all his mopar racing buddies are still around, some fairly famous (in my mind), one helped develop the shifter in the 63-64 max wedge cars. I have pictures of it in a blue lace paint job with plymouth on it too. Imperial motors in southern IL had a lot to do with mopars back then.

car kept garage space with the kentucky colonel (yes an IL car), the second owner's other hemi car. first owner raced until I think 69. He had the great idea of using the original motor in a duster, but he never got the steering right, and the original engine sat with a fresh wayne county rebuild on it since 69.

wayne county speed shop balanced the motor back in 69-70 but its never been bored. I plan to put it back the way it looks in these pictures, but want to take a ride down woodward avenue with it all silver first. It does not have any of the lettering today on it, just cragars.

original owner bought the gtx because you could insure it, back then you could not get insurance on the factory race hemis. One guy told me you had to have b-lls to put your name on the side and not be fast, so the car should have been fast back in the day. His girlfriend back when he bought the car also drag raced (she had he own car) and she could get better times that he did, even after the sox and martin clinics. That term drive it as if you don't own it applies I guess.

thanks for the help, that test on the front fender has always puzzled me.