Jim Kirby's 1968 Funny Car found!!!!!

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I just got back with the new owner of Jim Kirby's 1968 Funny Car. I know there has been a lot of talk about these cars in the past but I am here to set some stories straight. On a previous post by 68TopStock he said that Kirbys car was the number two car of Don Hardy produced Funny Cars, but actually it is the number three car that was produced by Hardy. The car is still in the original paint that was run when Kirby was teamed up with Harrell with the only exception that Kirbys name on the rear quarter and a mouse on wheels and Super Rat painted over the Boemler logo. The story that I got from Kirby was he dropped the Harrell logo after Dick and him went there different ways. Later on in that same year Boemler drop there sponsorship with Kirby for reasons that he didn't want to talk about, so he painted the rat on the car. The car was never rebodied like some people would like to belive, and was always owned by Jim until Today.... The cars engine is being looked at as we speek and hopefully be started up later on this week. Jim Kirby is a great all around person to talk to and I am happy to be part of this cars history. The new owner and Kirby plan on staying in touch with each other for there is much to gain with talking to a legend that was paired up with the other legend named Dick Harrell.....[img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/beers.gif[/img] [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/[/img] [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/headbang.gif[/img]