Hi Byron,

I am makin' progress....Wanna see? I hope to get it goin' by summer next.... They call me Redline Racer "Worlds Fastest 42 Stude"

I bought the car 25 years ago after it sat in a barn, no shit, for about 15 years or so.  It was a D/G car at Cordova Drag Strip in Cordova IL. The original builder put a 302 Z/28 motor in it raced it at the 1968 world Series at Cordova then pulled the motor and sold the car. To make a long story short I found the car (in Morrison IL, my home town and home to Arnie "The Farmer" Beswick), bought the 302 the original builder still had under his bench and put it back together as a legal D/G car. Raced it and drove it on the street that way for a few years then backhalved it and tubbed it while retaining the Olds rear and 39 Ford truck front axle. I ran 12.50 with a muncie 4-speed and 5:38 gears. The car would spin hard off the line and every gear, so I decided to 4-link the car in the mid 80's.I put a mild 377 with an old set of turbo casting heads on it and ran high 10's @ 120.

I got divorced and the car sat for 14 years in my shop. I am putting the finishing touches on an AFR eliminator series heads 64 cc chambers, @ 28" water, flow 300 cfm @ 600 lift Mahle flattops with 0-deck height 383 sbc/Rockcrusher combo. The motor dynoed @574 hp @6300 570 ft lbs. on e-85 @5800.It weighs 3000 lbs with me in it. I can only do a little at a time as $ lets me. It took me 3years to get the motor done. I am saving for the clutch and trans now, after that a new set of 4:88's axles, posi unit, front axle, spindles etc and will be very close to see what it will do. I am hoping for mid 10's What say you? Talk to ya later and Thanks again!

Redline Racer