i'm Bob Hilton I'm from Northern Virginia
my family's from Cincinnati the car's from Cincinnati I've been coming to Bowling Green for about
35 years got involved with the Hot Rod Reunion
to my son my father been drag racing for about 35 years
this car here is a Lynnwood chassis 1960 drag car
it's got a fuel burning oldsmobile in it 394 olds
it's got a 30 body on it would have been called a competition coupe
in 1960 my brother
has a collection of cars in Cincinnati and we acquired it through an estate and
did a lot work to it to kind of restore it but it's a running car we'll run
it
vintage drag races similar to a vintage sprint car race where
they'll make full competition runs but it's more of a
display run smoking the tires like these cars would have done in 1960
smoking the tires to the finish line
a 1960 394 olds it's been stroked this
motor right now it's a 671 supercharger
it's built period correct this is exactly how it would have been in nineteen sixty
this motor here for this weekend has nitro in it
it's at about about eighty-five percent nitromethane
load in it it'll put on a good show you know this motor in sixty would've made
about a thousand horsepower 900 yeah
oldsmobiles were traditionally a very torquey motor
they have a real long rod in them a lot of stroke so they're a pretty torquey motor
they were a very traditional race car motor in the 60's well I mean it's a slingshot
is what it would be called you know what I mean it's a slingshot
driver sits behind the rear axel it's wire wheels in the front this is a very early
dragster man I mean before this there wan't really it's
probably one of the first five years of the drag car so
slicks on the back man wire wheels on the front car weighs about 2000 pounds
that's steel body that was cut up
chop doors welded shut you know 25
or 30 year old kid would have built in the 60's to drag race
that motor stock that oldsmobile would weigh about 900 pounds
so it's a chunk of cast iron man
it's got a big rear end in it high gear
no transmission it's got a 410 gear in it
you let the clutch out and go it's a pretty traditional car I mean
it shows real good progression to the rest of these cars
which is what they're trying to do here
really show progression of the history of this
sport
and I were to get his name from Little Honker my dad had an Alter not quite
this car but one very similar in probably 60
and that's just what they called it it's
car gets a lot of attention partly because of it's name
and just the shape the size the look
it's all period parts it's like all that drives Eski drives
Eski front drive smooth front cover
you know what I mean it's all period vintage parts