Vintage MOPAR Funny Cars

[C Body Bob]

 

[pomonamissel]

found this at fomoso raceway

 

[C Body Bob]

 

[C Body Bob]

 

[C Body Bob]

 

[C Body Bob]

 

[C Body Bob]

 

[C Body Bob]

The late Joe Pisano working on one of his Hemi's. He manufactured his own line of alunimum Hemi blocks called the JP1. Competitor to Keith Black

 

[DeltaV]

C Body Bob , see if you can dig up anything on this one . Hank Hankins ran a 1965 superstocker converted to AFX style car . It was called the Trader Plymouth , had a blown injected hemi , somewhere in mid 1966 he built a 66 cuda and used the drive train out of it in the new car .It was called The Trader Barracuda . On it's first outing at Person County he rolled several times , the car was junk and he was taken to the hospital . This pic shows the 65 car running in 67 in Virginia . View attachment 67222

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That must be the wreck mentioned here:

The Story of James “Hank” Hankins

BTW, Ghent is in Norfolk, Virginia.

Additional pictures and story here:

East Coast Drag Racing Hall of Fame

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Also, found this ad for a race using his super-charged Dodge against some guy named Richard Petty.

Richmond Times-Dispatch
13 August 1965, Friday, Page 26
Richmond, Virginia


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Obituary:

HANK HANKINS

 

[DeltaV]

That must be the wreck mentioned here:

The Story of James “Hank” Hankins

BTW, Ghent is in Norfolk, Virginia.

Additional pictures and story here:

East Coast Drag Racing Hall of Fame

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Also, found this ad for a race using his super-charged Dodge against some guy named Richard Petty.

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Richmond Times-Dispatch
13 August 1965, Friday, Page 26
Richmond, Virginia


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Obituary:

HANK HANKINS

#43 in the foreground above and background below:

 

[DeltaV]

Some more pictures of "The Trader":

 

[DeltaV]

Roy Clark's "Super Picker"