May 2009 – The Flashback Racing TR7 Land Speed Racer bumps record at Maxton to 111.715 MPH

In our final run on a damp track in Maxton, North Carolina, my stock 2 liter TR7 ran 111.715 mph on the ECTA’s one mile course. This was nearly a 3 mph improvement over our best run a year earlier. I attribute this speed advance to a smoother front end shape and elimination of a partially failed throttle cable.  On the 900 mile return trip to St. Louis, the Flashback team agreed that the stock 2 liter engine had run as fast as it would go and that 2010 would require a more potent powerplant.  Read More →

1951 Crosley Dairy Delivery… A National Champion

I purchased this vehicle as a rolling hulk back in 2006 and have invested over 2.5 years in complete rebuild by Crosley Master Tim Freshley into a Race Quality / Show Quality truck.  This is definitely a one-of-a-kind vehicle. The photo above was taken at the Crosley Nationals on July 11, 2009, exactly one week after the vehicle was completed. In that this Crosley spent most of its first life as a Dairy Delivery vehicle, we entered it in the Commercial Vehicles class, where it won it’s first National title. My Crosley truck is shown here nearly complete in January 2009 in front of Tim Freshley’s Randolph, Ohio shop.  Read More →

1961 Corvette Frame On Restoration Project

This Corvette is my daily driver and my favorite car… it is currently under going an extensive Frame-On restoration. Finished in roman red with ermine white coves and black interior, this car may be the highest mileage 1961 Corvette on the planet at 303,000 miles on the numbers matching base 230hp 283 with Powerglide transmission.  Read More →

1926 Ford Model T 4 Door Sedan

This classic street rod was built in 1971 and parked in 1981. Twenty five years later I rescued it in 2006. This original steel body rides on a custom frame with Corvette rear suspension and Chevelle front spindles. The 1969 Ford 351 Windsor needs work and is scheduled to be refinished in Winter 2009… until then… you can finish it yourself for $15,000.  Read More →

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1938 Ford Race Car Replica

Hand build replica of the #39 M.H. Miles Four Port Riley race car driven by Red Bales throughout the Midwest in the 1940’s. This Museum Quality race car features a Ford Model B drive line, 1928 Franklin steering and a hand hammered aluminum body by Junior Dryer of Indianapolis, Indiana. This car is reluctantly offered at $24,000.  Read More →

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1976 TR7 Coupe

My latest Triumph acquisition is a very solid coupe body which has an expired 2 liter engine. I have scheduled this coupe to receive a V8 transplant. My plan is to create a street car with lots of race car attitude. Stop me now while you still can. Make Offer. In that NO ONE has stopped me, this coupe is now equipped with a fiberglass cowl hood and fiberglass deck lid. I have also rustled up a SCCA ITA cage for safety, you can catch a glimpse of the roll cage through the windshield in the hood photo. I hope to have this V8 coupe road worthy late in 2010.  Read More →

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