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LOCATION OSCEOLA H E R I TA G E PA R K 1875 SILV E R S P U R L A NE KISSIMME E , F L 3 4 7 4 4 Irlo Bronson Memorial Highway (Hwy 192) - just West of the Florida Turnpike. Exit 244 on Turnpike. FL Auction License # AB1919
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1963 Shelby Cobra DragonSnake
Costilow/Larson, CSX2093
CSX 2093 was the 93rd Cobra built and is one of only eight cars modified with the Shelby-developed Dragonsnake package designed to maximize drag racing performance. Depending on options, the package could swell the bottom line to a whopping $8,990, a huge sum in 1960s-era dollars. Owned by Jim Costilow and piloted by drag racer Bruce Larson, later of USA-1 Funny Car fame, the Dragonsnake dominated the NHRA’s A/SP, AA/SP, B/SP and C/SP classes in 1964. It set all new records in the 1965 season and won the NHRA Springnationals, Winternationals and U.S. Indy Nationals that year. The Cobra was so successful that it overshadowed Shelby’s factorysponsored Dragonsnake, much to Shelby’s dismay, and thereafter factory support for the privateer effort began to dry up. Later, with subsequent owner Ed Hedrick behind the wheel, CSX 2093 went on to win the 1966 Springnationals and U.S. Nationals. It also chalked up class wins at the 1967 Springnationals, Winternationals, U.S. Indy Nationals, and finished out the season with the World Points Championship. It continued to set records in 1968. All told, CSX 2093 held national titles in four separate classes. The Costilow/Larson Dragonsnake has been authenticated and certified by the Antique Automobile Club of America (AACA) as a true and correct original car, and has also won that organization’s Senior Award and Race Car Certification badges. It has undergone a completely accurate and show-quality restoration by
Ziegler Coach of Los Angeles, CA and is presented exactly as it competed, including the Weber-carbureted 289 Ford V-8 with Ballanger side mount headers, 4-speed transmission, Cobra Sunburst rear wheels with slicks, wire front wheels, removable hardtop and eye-grabbing Magenta metalflake paint.
Offered with full documentation of its NHRA national records, this is not only the most famous and successful of the eight Shelby Dragonsnakes; it is in fact the winningest competition Cobra in history.
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S150.1
1971 Sox & Martin Hemi Cuda Pro Stock The Boss, 426 CI, 4-Speed This is the very car that “Mr. Four-Speed,” the legendary Ronnie Sox, piloted to 14 dominating wins in the 1971 NHRA season. The ‘71 ‘Cuda represented the pinnacle of performance for the Chrysler factory drag racing program and also for the Sox & Martin team, as oppressive weight breaks, the discontinuation of the Hemi and rule changes favoring tube-framed small-block racecars conspired against Pro Stock Mopar racers. Nevertheless, the Sox & Martin ‘71 Hemi ‘Cuda’s spectacular racing success that season stands proudly in the record books. The ‘Cuda has been treated to an extensive restoration to its 1971 race configuration and is in exquisite condition.
It sports the best that the factory had to offer that year, including the famous 426 Hemi with dual-plug cylinder heads, dual quad intake and of course, the 4-speed transmission that Ronnie Sox shifted with such virtuosic skill. It is finished in the original eye-grabbing, red, white and blue “Sox & Martin” livery and never fails to draw huge crowds.
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1970 Grumpy Jenkins Camaro Pro Stock Grumpys Toy VIII Late in 1969 the NHRA announced the formation of a new heads-up Pro Stock class, the rules of which were based on those of the United States Drag Racing Team, a heads-up super stock circuit formed in early 1968. After winning the inaugural Pro Stock Eliminator at the 1970 NHRA Winternationals in his 1968 S/S Camaro, Jenkins unleashed this 430 CI big block-powered 1970 ½ Camaro, “Grumpy’s Toy VIII,” which became a legend on the “mountain motor” match race circuit and was subsequently campaigned by Chevy drag stars Bruce Larsen and Richie Zul, the latter of whom drove it to a much-heralded Pro Stock Eliminator win at the 1974 NHRA Summernationals.
Faithfully restored by prominent collector Mike Guarise, “Grumpy’s Toy VIII” has been authenticated by Jenkins himself, who showed his approval by signing the cowl panel. “Grumpy’s Toy VIII” remains a singular and historically important automotive artifact, one that evokes the inception of Pro Stock Eliminator and will remain one of the top vintage drag racing attractions in perpetuity.
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1974 Grumpy Jenkins Vega Pro Stock Grumpys Toy XI Built by Jenkins Competition spin-off Speed Research and Development, Bill Jenkins’ radical 1974 Pro Stock Vega, “Grumpy’s Toy XI,” was the first completely tube-framed Pro Stock racer and the first to employ MacPherson strut front suspension and a dry sump oiling system. With weight breaks favoring the Ford racers, “Grumpy’s Toy XI” was the only Chevrolet Pro Stock to win an event in 1974. Jenkins authenticated “Grumpy’s Toy XI” in 1993, signing the deck lid with an inscription that remains to this day. It was then restored to original race-ready condition with considerable input from Jenkins, who contributed original decals and special E16 aluminum heads for its 331 CI small block engine, built exactly as described by Jenkins in his book, The Chevrolet Racing Engine.
Unveiled at the 1994 Winternationals, “Grumpy’s Toy XI” toured the country for the following year. It has since run a low E.T. of 8.80 at 152 mph, close to its 1974 best, and still remains in race-ready condition 36 years after revolutionizing Pro Stock.
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1972 Bob Glidden Pinto Pro Stock 3 Time NHRA National Champion Bob Glidden’s Pro Stock Pinto holds a very special place in drag racing history. It won twenty NHRA National events and World Championships in 1974, ‘75 and ‘78, a record no other Pro Stocker of that period even came close to matching. Embodying the best in period Pro Stock engineering, the Glidden Pinto is built on a light but rigid chrome-moly tube frame of advanced design. The engine is an original Glidden-built Boss 351 Cleveland unit representing the state of the art, the only one Glidden has sold with one of his cars.
Originally painted red, the car was refinished by Glidden’s partner Bob Allen in the distinctive Stars-and Stripes livery it wore as millions of drag fans watched it rewrite the record books. The Bob Glidden Pro Stock World Champion Pinto is presented in its 1975-1976 form, representing the year it won its second of three Championships. By that time it was practically unbeatable, the best of its breed, and it remains so today.
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S234
1966 Pontiac GTO Royal Replica 389/360 HP, 4-Speed Royal Pontiac of Royal Oak, Michigan was the epicenter of Pontiac performance for a unique decade that began in the late 1950s. The most famous Royal product of that period was the Bobcat tuning kit that transformed the GTO into an instant drag strip terror. No-one worked the Bobcat magic better than Royal’s Performance Service Manager, the legendary Milt Schornack, who prepared a seemingly endless parade of Royal-sponsored racers including the most famous of them all, the 1966 Royal GeeTO Tiger.
Milt Schornack has personally overseen the construction of this fabulous replica of the original 1966 Royal GeeTO Tiger, and the result is a roaring success. Instantly identifiable by its Tiger Gold paint and Royal livery, the car uses a Bobcat-tuned 389 CI Tri Power Ram Air V-8, Hurstshifter with Line Lock and a Safe-T-Track positraction rear end with boxed control arms, hooking up through M&H Racemaster “cheater” slicks on rare Hurst wheels. Every detail is in place, and for fans of the original Royal GeeTO Tiger, it’s 1966 all over again!
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F126
1966 Dodge D-Dart Super Stock Lightweight 1 of 50 Built Chrysler’s Dodge Division answered the rising demand for factory Junior Stock drag racers with the now-famous D/ Dart, a lightweight Dart GT available right off the dealer’s showroom floor and ready to race in NHRA and AHRA’s D/Stock class. Sales code 699 was the prescription, and the medicine came in the form of a 273/275 HP engine fitted with a Racer Brown cam, special intake, Holley 4160 4-barrel, low restriction air cleaner, Doug’s headers and dual point distributor. A Weber clutch sent the little engine’s torque through a Hurst-shifted A833 heavy duty 4-speed to a 4.86-geared 8¾ Sure Grip diff, with bucket seats and heavy duty suspension completing the package. Fitted with period correct Cragar S/S wheels with slicks and still retaining its factory code WW1 Valiant White paint and P4H Red vinyl interior, this unique “A” body factory drag racer is one of only 50 D/Darts built, an extremely rare original example that has been fully documented and decoded by Galen Govier.
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F129
1962 Ford Galaxie Lightweight Phil Bonner Racecar Despite their late arrival in the 1962 season, Ford’s lightweight Galaxie racers pointed the way to the company’s future drag racing efforts. Production comprised the last ten cars off the assembly line (an eleventh car was built later); all were based on the lighter 6-cylinder production frame and were fitted with fiberglass hoods, front fenders and trunk lid. More weight was saved with aluminum bumpers, brackets and inner fenders, and carpets, sound deadener, seam sealers, radio and heater were deleted. The 1962 Galaxie lightweight offered here was raced by Phil Bonner, who received it as a replacement for one earlier destroyed in a towing accident. Like its brethren, it is powered by Ford’s 406/405 HP V-8, the first early-Sixties Ford engine equipped with dual Holley 4-barrels atop an aluminum intake. Presented from the Ellis Collection, it retains its original combination of Wimbledon White, Blue bucket seat interior and Al Means Ford racing livery.
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F146
1967 Mercury Comet 427 Wagon The Collector Lincoln-Mercury produced 60 427-powered Comets in 1967, the most famous of which was “The Collector,” a 202 Comet sedan fielded by Canada’s largest LincolnMercury dealer, Barrie, Ontario’s Sandy Elliot. Looking for an edge in NHRA’s Super Stock Eliminator, the Elliots and their dealer performance advisor Barrie Poole transplanted a complete Comet 202 427 4-speed drivetrain into this small block 1967 Comet station wagon, creating “The Collector II.” The car performed impressively, posting the quickest SS/C time at the 1967 NHRA Spring Nationals at Bristol, TN and taking a close second to Bill Jenkins in the final. “The Collector II” appears on page 138 of the book Total Performers: Ford Drag Racing in the 1960’s by noted author Charles R. Morris. It is accompanied by extensive documentation, including a Deluxe Marti Report showing
shipment to Sandy Elliot, Ltd, in Chatham, Ontario, Canada, correspondence to and from NASCAR confirming its legality for AA/Stock competition, and period photos of the car in action.
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F163
1964 Mercury A/FX Comet Countdown 3, 427 CI, 4-Speed Lincoln-Mercury plunged into drag racing full force in 1964, contracting with Thunderbolt builders Dearborn Steel Tubing to build a fleet of 21 Comets for NHRA’s new A/FX class. Modifications included widening the shock towers and the upper control arm mounting points to accommodate Ford’s mighty 427 CI High Riser engine, with a heavy duty 4-speed and 9-inch rear end to handle the power. Fiberglass front fenders, hood, doors and front bumper helped trim the Comet’s weight, an exercise furthered by stripping out the radio and heater and replacing the stock seats with the same light weight buckets seats used in the Thunderbolts. Known as “Countdown 3,” this is one of the 21 Detroit Steel Tubing-built factory A/FX lightweight 427 Comets. Driven by Jess Woodman and sponsored by Laughlin Miles Lincoln Mercury of Alton, Illinois, it comes with the original data tag with company DSO and manufacturing date of 12/31/63 and is accompanied with extensive documentation from Lincoln Mercury Racing Division about the Comet Race Program.
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1966 Ford Fairlane 427 Prototype 427 CI, 4-Speed Ford’s mid-size Fairlane grew large enough in 1966 to accept its big block FE-series engines. While the 390 CI version was a decent performer, it was not enough to counter the competition’s factory-backed Super Stock drag racers. The answer came in the 427 Medium Riser engine, both single- and dual-4-barrel versions of which the factory installed in a limited number of Fairlanes assigned to a handful of top drag racers. While outwardly identical to showroom Fairlanes and in fact available for sale, the 427 was marked by its unique fiberglass ram air hood, but the real difference was in the 427’s NASCAR internals and prodigious breathing. Raced by factory stalwart Ed Terry under the Haywood Ford banner, this 1966 Fairlane, serial number 6H43Z105168, is historically significant as the prototype for the
427 Fairlanes that tore up the competition in NHRA SS/B and later in A/Stock. It is extensively documented with period photographs, magazine articles and restoration records, internal factory paperwork including the significant $1.00 award letter from Ford to Ed Terry and a letter of authentication signed by Terry.
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F266
1967 Ford Fairlane R-Code Lightweight Factory Sponsored Racecar Descended from the legendary Thunderbolt drag cars of 1964, Ford’s lightweight 1967 R-code Fairlanes were built in limited number using “Side Oiler” wedge 427 CI engines and the four-speed Top-Loader manual gearbox to qualify for both NHRA and IHRA Super Stock racing. Distinguished by their scooped fiberglass hoods, the 427 Fairlanes were equipped with stronger shock towers, stiffer front springs, power front disc brakes and heavy-duty rear suspension; race prepared versions consistently ran in the low 11s. This 1967 R-code Fairlane was originally campaigned by veteran Ford drag racer Ed Skelton of Anderson, SC under the sponsorship of Guy’s Ford. It remains today as it was when Skelton piloted it 43 years ago,
showing only 4 miles on the odometer, which was disconnected as part of the original race preparation. Documentation for this rare original Ford factory racer includes the original Ford Motor Company statement of origin dated May 23, 1967, the letter from Ford dated July 7, 1967 awarding ownership to Mr. Edward Skelton, and the original owner card.
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T166
1967 Plymouth Belvedere II Factory RO23 Lightweight This sleek, lightweight 1967 Plymouth Belvedere II is one of only 55 code R023 Hemi-powered factory racers produced and one of only seventeen equipped with the optional four-speed manual transmission. Delivered race-ready without heater, radio, body insulation, carpet underlay and seam sealer, the RO23s were hundreds of pounds lighter than stock models. The 426 CI Hemi engines powering these cars featured dual-point transistorized ignition with mechanical advance, highvoltage solid core ignition wiring, and specially tuned twin Carter four-barrel carburetors fed by a massive ramair hood scoop. Officially rated at just 425 horsepower, the RO23 Hemi Belvedere was an instant world-beater and remains a Super Stock drag racing icon.
Fresh from a recent rotisserie restoration, it retains its original interior trim, fabric-and-vinyl bench seats, floormounted shifter and stark no-heater, no-radio dashboard. This car has never been equipped with a rollcage or otherwise structurally cut or altered. One of the rarest and most desirable lightweight cars in existence, this is a completely documented 1967 Super Stock Hemi Belvedere with Galen Govier certification.
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1969 Chevrolet Camaro Pro Street 482 CI, Multiple Award Winner Master fabricator Rex Buxton of Buxton Performance in Laguna Hills, CA pulled no punches in constructing this astonishing, multiple award-winning 1969 Camaro street machine. Built on a full tube frame stretched 8 inches and riding on an Air Ride Shockwave suspension system, this flamed and sprayed showstopper features a cowl induction fiberglass front clip with polished aluminum paneling, a fully engineered custom interior and full width Pro street-style rear spoiler. Up front is a custom built 482 CI Chevrolet big block, chromed and polished and fitted with an NOS 200-shot system. It has been featured in the August 2007 issues of both Camaro Performance and Chevy Rumble Magazines, and swept its class in 2007 at the prestigious Grand National Roadster Show, winning several prestigious awards including Outstanding Engine, Outstanding Interior, Outstanding Engineering and Outstanding Street Machine.
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