Remember how we spent our Sundays at church
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Kid Vette
Master-Baiter
Great pic!
mrvette
Phantom of the Opera
Dean, I tell yawl a krazy old story tat dates from '68 or so....My much older Sis lived not so far from Capital Dragaway in Bowie Md....so a Mopar fanatic buddy and I used to head out to there on race day....can't recall Sat or Sun...but think it was Sunday....at any rate I was into Pontiacs and high torque, having lost my first car, a '60 283 vette into a tree not long before....so I became a member of the 'Pontiac Clan' one of the guys raced a ~5500 lbs Bonneville station wagon....'60 the damn thing ran in the 12's....he NEVER spun a wheel.....yeh, well no shit.... the transmissions HE built never blew up....he tipped me off on my car a good bit, I remember reading the flow charts on the things, and asking questions.....
but over the decades Joe Perzan and I lost touch and so I went to ATI for further knowledge and more funny stories after that.....I met up with the owner of ATI back when it was a trans shop in Silver Spring Md, just outside Wash DC.....Jim Beatty......who formed a Torque Converter rebuilding company and made some wild upgraded that were SUPER popular in high perf circles..... THAT operation was moved to Baltimore, and the Trans shop sold to Sherman Slye and so Sherman did a rebuild on a 400 turbo and some 15 years ago, I walked into the original shop that he then owned, and right there in the waiting room, told him there HAD to be some kind of extended warranty on this 400 trans, it did not kick back the gears like it used to.....he knows he knows ME, but can't come up with a name.....so he flatfooted.....when I knew he was out of it.....I told him it was rebuilt by his outfit some 15 years ago, and after 300k miles it just did not HIT second gear the way it USED to......the entire waiting room cracked up......GOOD times!!!!!:shocking::yahoo:
BangkokDean
Well-known member
Another day at Church
7t9l82
Well-known member
I knew Jim pretty well for a few years when I raced he was among the best,and Sherman he was service manager at colonial Chrysler. Built six cylinder ford's and made Cleveland heads to fit on them a true genius.:thumbs: as Sherman would say "yes indeedy "
mrvette
Phantom of the Opera
Been a while....:gurney::drink::drink:
I want to say they on Bowdendale Rd. borderline of DC and Silver Spring Md.....name of Road maybe rong though.....
Strange that you knew the same guys, no way in hell to say if WE maybe have met up though.....:drink:
7t9l82
Well-known member
We definitely know the same people,the Drag Racing community around D.C is pretty tight though.
