1970 Black on Black W-31 4 speed

[dhay13]

Here is the 69 Chevelle. I bought this from John Kunsak. It was an IHRA A-stock national record holder in the late 80's. I bought it about 1991 with 17,000 miles on it...all 1/4 mile at a time...lol.

[Stefano]

Vintage pic from Dan.

[dhay13]

can't get my pic to load. feel free to upload it if you'd like stefano. nvermind. got it

[dhay13]

After it was repainted

[dhay13]

and my 57 Chevy. This was bought from Dan Chisholm, who is now racing a '55 gasser i believe

[dhay13]

sorry. the chevelle was a record holder in the late 70's. not 80's. it was a malibu but built as a COPO replica with 427 for the A stock class. i had a couple different 454s in it. my fast time was 11.69 at 116 MPH at quaker city in salem ohio. i also raced it at norwalk

[DW31S]

Very cool that you're here Dan. Really like the white headers on the W-31. Welcome aboard!!!

[dhay13]

Thanks. those headers were the ceramic coated ones. i think they were blackjack. i sold the car cause i wanted to race and didn't want to tear up the W31. i sold the 57 in 2003 and walked away from it. my son started racing professional karts for awhile so we focused on that. he raced with a few NASCAR drivers (Jamie McMurray and Erik Jones) and Indy car drivers (Mark Dismore). that was our goal for him but our pockets weren't deep enough so we sold all that a few years ago too. no fast vehicles in the family anymore [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/frown.gif[/img]

[DW31S]

I met Mark Dismore many years ago in the garages at Indy. He was in a VIOLENT accident and if my memory is correct, he never drove again.

[dhay13]

he came back to racing. that crash was i believe in 1991. he won at texas about 1999. he was teammates with tony stewart ans actually got tony the ride. i got to know him pretty well. we pitted with him and mark jr. when we raced nationals. i used to talk to mark jr. a couple of times a month and mark sr. a couple of times a year. my son raced against him (we were pitted with them too) about 3 years ago. my son got beat by a 55 year old...lol. they own a kart dealership in new castle indiana and we were racing the brand they supported and we got all our parts from them. mark jr. was best friends with dan wheldon and dismores have a race every year at their track called the robopong 200. the race required at least 2 drivers and 1 kart. mark jr. and wheldon always partnered up. mark jr. was cutting back on his racing so i asked him if he wanted my son to race with them as a 3rd driver. mark said he would mention it to wheldon but i never got an answer. a couple months later wheldon was killed in vegas. the robopong was a week after that. but i found out wheldon accidentally signed up for a race in australia the same weekend as the robopong so he wasn't gooing to race it anyway. so mark jr. decided not to race it too. so mark sr. teamed with josef newgarden using the kart wheldon was supposed to run and they won the race. wheldon lived with dismores when he came here from england. they picked him up at the airport.

anyway, both mark jr and sr and class acts. very good people. we never did get to meet dan wheldon but heard he was a class act too

Here are the 2011 series standings. My son only raced that 1 race in that series. He is Blaise Haynes.