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Huszarail:
Hello Everyone, I came across your forum curtesy of 'that' search engine and signed up.
I'm Mark from Droitwich, Worcestershire in good ol' Blighty.
I own a 1966 RCS FED running a mild SBC, Enderle injected on gas. It's my first car and I thought gas would be a simple way to start, along with all the challenges of running a dragster.
The car came form Oregon and used to compete in Nostalgia Eliminator. The story goes that it was built for a body shop owner in Dufur(?) Oregon but he hung up the rolling chassis in the rafters of his business from 1966 untill 1998. John Meissenger brought the car in 1998 and finished it. The paint is the first on the body ever. He had the roll cage replaced with a 5 point setup and added kidney bars and went racing. With a hot 427 small block and 'glide the car ran 7.6's.
I brought the car to the U.K. and it has a quiet life - semi retired so to speak.
I love it. the shortie body is just beautiful, the seat pan is made of 5 separate pieces of aluminum and welded and planished. You can tell the tubes are hand pulled around the rear of the car.
The plan is to move up to Alky and keep having fun with it ;D
Next step is to freshen my 1969 El Camino tow car having sat outside under a cover for the last 4-5 years while we moved house and built a workshop!

GlennLever:

--- Quote from: Huszarail on June 19, 2013, 05:30:15 AM ---Hello Everyone, I came across your forum curtesy of 'that' search engine and signed up.
I'm Mark from Droitwich, Worcestershire in good ol' Blighty.
I own a 1966 RCS FED running a mild SBC, Enderle injected on gas. It's my first car and I thought gas would be a simple way to start, along with all the challenges of running a dragster.
The car came form Oregon and used to compete in Nostalgia Eliminator. The story goes that it was built for a body shop owner in Dufur(?) Oregon but he hung up the rolling chassis in the rafters of his business from 1966 untill 1998. John Meissenger brought the car in 1998 and finished it. The paint is the first on the body ever. He had the roll cage replaced with a 5 point setup and added kidney bars and went racing. With a hot 427 small block and 'glide the car ran 7.6's.
I brought the car to the U.K. and it has a quiet life - semi retired so to speak.
I love it. the shortie body is just beautiful, the seat pan is made of 5 separate pieces of aluminum and welded and planished. You can tell the tubes are hand pulled around the rear of the car.
The plan is to move up to Alky and keep having fun with it ;D
Next step is to freshen my 1969 El Camino tow car having sat outside under a cover for the last 4-5 years while we moved house and built a workshop!

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Welcome aboard.

I have a soft spot for the El Caminos.

I sold mine to Rob Baarsma Spijkerboor The Netherlands. He has apparently passed on and I have lost track of the 70 SS
http://www.leverfamilysite.com/1970_SS_El_Camino.htm

Huszarail:
Hi Glen,
Mine was a So Cal truck, El Camino Custom 350/4 speed (now T-5) bucket seats, was really nasty though when I got it. Butchered to fit TH400 and bench seat.
Now has 3 pedals re-instated and painted in the original butternut yellow, on corvette rallye steels and red bands.

GlennLever:
Very nice indead

mfp-66:
Welcome from the north of England

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