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12-18-2007, 06:18 AM
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The Nova did have a 350 in it. I have not seen the car for about 10 years. I will have to ask if it is still around.
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#203
12-19-2007, 04:40 AM
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[b] Come on Chris - time for a repaint on that cart. Did we really think this stuff looked good? - -   -  -  - - Hey, it all looks good to me  where's my bong?Glenn, I was probably at that Maple Grove Show, I went to the first through 86. Just kidding about the bong  weed free for 25 yrs-
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#204
12-19-2007, 03:23 PM
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[b] Come on Chris - time for a repaint on that cart. Did we really think this stuff looked good? [/ QUOTE ] <font color="blue">I still think it has a good look. We spent 10x the money today to make them look 'simple' & 'uncluttered'. I still like names on cars, it makes it 'yours'. </font>
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12-19-2007, 08:55 PM
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 [/ QUOTE ] Scott Sullivan's car from 1979, right? I think Hot Rod recently credited this car as being the "first" Pro Street car? (Can of worms, I know.) Maybe they called it the first PS car that was actually driveable and reliable. This car knocked people's eyes out when it first came on the scene, much the same way Rick Dobbertin's '65 did soon after.
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12-19-2007, 10:04 PM
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Yep that's Sullivan's Nova...
They may have called his the first pro street car Bill...but I have pics from 1979 at the Street Machine Nationals West that show a 1970? Nova that has the narrowed rear, gas tank in the trunk and big engine up front...at least on the west coast this guy was considered to be the first person to go the pro street route...
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12-20-2007, 12:48 AM
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I grew up with a guy named Fred Bieler (sp?) Everyone called him Crazy Freddy for obvious reasons. He built a bunch of hot cars and did custom bodywork.
Freddy drove like a wild man, and Freddy was an innovator - In the late sixties Freddy took a '62 Dodge with an 413" automatic and mated it with a wrecked Freeport modified. He installed the narrowed Halibrand quick-change with a set of 6 something gears. He took 2 stock rims and cut and welded them together and stretched a 10 or 12 inch racing tire on them. As I remember the tire looked more like a tractor tire then anything else. It was up high in the back with these monster tires tucked underneath! Blasts down Hempstead Tpke were amazing with the uncorrected speedometer reaching over 100 mph in first with those wild gears. Freddy also cut the inside out of the top of the back seat from side to side. He installed amps and a speaker from a movie theater in the trunk facing through the rear seat fabric. He cut the center out of the dashboard and installed a tv speaker up front. Pulling into Wetsons with the 8-track cranked up always brought everyone outside! Freddy was from Brooklyn, but grew up with his Uncle in Elmont. The last I saw of him was in late '70 at the Twilight bar in Elmont. He arrived in a wheelchair with some sort of 2 cycle motorcycle motor propelling it. He took off down Meacham Ave and I went in the Army shortly afterward. I never saw him again! I would love to know what else Crazy Freddy dreamed up from there!
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12-20-2007, 05:47 AM
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".............a wheelchair with some sort of 2 cycle motorcycle motor propelling it..."
tell us again why they called him Crazy Freddy!! 
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12-20-2007, 07:10 AM
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Yeah Sam...It reminds me of someone else I know!  You....  [/ QUOTE ] Sure Bruce. Me and 99% of the rest of us on this site!!
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12-20-2007, 07:21 AM
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I grew up with a guy named Fred Bieler (sp?) Everyone called him Crazy Freddy for obvious reasons. He built a bunch of hot cars and did custom bodywork. Freddy drove like a wild man, and Freddy was an innovator - In the late sixties Freddy took a '62 Dodge with an <font color="red"> 413 </font> " automatic and mated it with a wrecked Freeport modified. He installed the narrowed Halibrand quick-change with a set of 6 something gears. He took 2 stock rims and cut and welded them together and stretched a 10 or 12 inch racing tire on them. As I remember the tire looked more like a tractor tire then anything else. It was up high in the back with these monster tires tucked underneath! Blasts down Hempstead Tpke were amazing with the uncorrected speedometer reaching over 100 mph in first with those wild gears. Freddy also cut the inside out of the top of the back seat from side to side. He installed amps and a speaker from a movie theater in the trunk facing through the rear seat fabric. He cut the center out of the dashboard and installed a tv speaker up front. Pulling into Wetsons with the 8-track cranked up always brought everyone outside! Freddy was from Brooklyn, but grew up with his Uncle in Elmont. The last I saw of him was in late '70 at the Twilight bar in Elmont. He arrived in a wheelchair with some sort of 2 cycle motorcycle motor propelling it. He took off down Meacham Ave and I went in the Army shortly afterward. I never saw him again! I would love to know what else Crazy Freddy dreamed up from there! [/ QUOTE ] <font color="red"> 413</font> 
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