The 2011 Dave Duell Classic Wall Calendar makes an excellent Christmas gift for family and friends, and is currently on sale for on $17.99.

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Building the Texas Whale

The car was bought in October 2003 on eBay, and transported from California to Texas. Dave’s wife and yard man laughed hysterically when it was unloaded and Dave stated he was going to turn it into a Nostalgia Super Stock race car.

The car was pressure washed and stripped, then carted to friend, Ken Presley, in Conway, AR. Ken sandblasted the body, repaired the rust issues, and sprayed the car in primer.

It was then taken to Texas Thunder Performance in November 2004, where it spent about a year in the back shed waiting its turn. In January 2006, it made its way to the shop, where it was converted to a 2-door wagon, using a 1960 Plymouth 2-door post as the donor for the middle section. 1960 was the last year that Plymouth made a full-size 2-door wagon.

After the conversion to a 2-door wagon, work on the 4-link and cage began in November 2007.

In early 2009, Lexan was cut and fitted. Molds were made of the fenders, hood, bumpers, and tailgate — and fiberglass parts pulled from them.

In late 2009 the body was smoothed and the car was painted red.

In early 2010, the engine was test fitted and custom headers made. The front suspension was also rebuilt at that time.

In the Spring of 2010, the graphics were laid out onto the car.

In the Summer of 2010 — the graphics were finished

In late summer of 2010, final assembly began.

On November 9th of 2010 the car was picked up from Texas and brought down to our shop for the last 5% to be finished.

More photos of the work performed at our shop in Richmond, TX to follow. Click here to view the “Coming Out” photos.

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Big Red Ram For Sale High 8-second/low 9-Second Nostalgia Super Stock 1965 Dodge Coronet

This is a professional built race car by Texas Thunder Performance, made specifically for Nostalgia Super Stick Drag Racing. It has been freshened up with a brand new Diamondback 580ci engine and Bonifante clutch — and ready to compete NOW!

Chassis Coil over Ladder Bar Double adjustable shocks Wilwood Brakes (all corners) Ford 9" Back-braced Nodular Dynotech Aluminum Driveshaft New Mickey Thompson 10.5WX15X31 Slicks New Moroso Front Tires ProStar Wheels 12" Rear / 6" Front Welded In Sub-Frame Connectors Strange Alloy Axles & Spool Richmond Race Gears (4.54:1) Smoothed and  Powder Coated K-Frame All New Front End Components Underside Cleaned and Painted with POR15 Grey Wilwood Master Cylinder Master Cylinder Heat Shield Interior Full carpet, headliner, and door panels Simulated Leather Sports Seats Autometer 5" recording Tach Autometer fuel Gauge Autometer Voltmeter Gauge Autometer Oil Pressure Gauge Autometer Collant Temp Gauge Removable Wood Steering Wheel Tach Mounted Low Oil Pressure Warning Light Electrical/Ignition MSD 7AL3 Box Painless Roll Cage Mounted Switchbox MSD Pro Power Coil New 16V Battery 16V/12V Splitter Exterior Fiberglass Bumpers Fiberglass Front Fenders Fiberglass Hood and Decklid Fiberglass Doors Lexan Wheelie Bars Chute Custom Car Cover Fuel 8 Gallon JAZ Fuel Cell Properly Mounted Magna Fuel 1000+ HP Fuel Pump -AN10 Braided lines to front -AN8 return and regulator to Carb Lines MagnaFuel Regulator Engine (580CI Wedge) NEW MOTOR! Indy Aluminum Wet Block All Brand New Parts Callies Crank Weisco Pistons Manly Rods Indy CNC Ported 572-16 Heads TD Rocker Assembly Milodon External Swing Arm Oil Pump Bullet Custom Grind Roller Cam Indy Aluminum Sprayer Valve Covers Gear Drive Timing MSD Crank Trigger Brand New Custom 2 1/4" Ceramic Coated Headers Powermaster Starter Indy NSS 2X4 Intake Pair of Diamondback Prepared 800CFM AFB Carbs SFI Balancer CSR Water Pump Moroso 4-Vane Vacuum Pump Milodon Oil Pan Transmission Jerico 4-Speed (recent Rebuild Boninfante Single Disk Clutch (Just Rebuilt – new disk and flywheel) Long Pistol Grip V-Gate Shifter w/Line Lock Button Lakewood Scatter Shield

With an iron block, 440-1 head, 540ci Diamondback Engine, this car had a best of 9.375 @ 145 MPH in the quarter. It now has a a BRAND NEW Aluminum Block, 572-16 head, 580ci Diamondback Engine with an estimated 100HP more and 100 pounds less. The motor has not yet made its initial break-in Full Passes — but it is expected to bring this car into the 8s. Mark Artis of Texas Thunder Performance did all of the chassis, body, and most of the assembly; and Damon Kuhn of Diamondback Engine built the engine, front end, and rebuilt the transmission. It would cost well over $100,000 to build a NSS car exactly like this. I am moving into a 60 Plymouth Wagon for my NSS racing — and would like to see this car land in good hands. It is a very fast all motor car — and not for the inexperienced or faint of heart. It is turn-key ready to race in the Nostalgia Super Stock FX class with NMCA and most other organizations that race NSS. It needs absolutely nothing. Chrome Moly Chassis easily certifies for 8.50. The price is $65,000 firm.

For more information, you can contact me: http://www.daveschultz.com/contact-dave/ The below videos are from when the car had the smaller iron motor in it.

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2011 NMCA Schedule

While the NMCA generally don't publicly release
their schedule prior to next months PRI show — I got a peek at the schedule and
will give the NSS racers a Heads Up. The below is a the schedule.

Date	Track
March 18-20	Bradenton, Fl
April 14-17	Commerce, GA *
June 3-5	Mechanicsville, MD
June 23-26	Joliet, IL *
July 8-10	Fontana, CA * **
August 5-7	Bowling Green, KY  ***
August 26-28	Milan, MI
October 6-9	Indianapolis
November 11-13	Houston, Texas * **

 

* Combination NMCA/NMRA Event

** Non-Points event

*** Expanded NSS Payout

Additionally, I've been told that the Points
Championship will no longer be a "Chase" type of system, but will revert back to
best 5 of 7 events — throwing out two races, plus bonus points for 5 races, 6
races, and 7 races.

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Texas Whale

The Texas Whale is 1960 Plymouth Suburban 2-door wagon is being prepared for Nostalgia Super Stock Racing.

The process began when I bought the wagon in California in 2003, and took to a friend (Ken Presley) in Conway, Arkansas to have it stripped, gutted, blasted, repaired, and primed. It then went to Mark Artis at Texas Thunder in 2004. There it was converted into a 2-door wagon (Yes, Plymouth made over 500 1960 Plymouth 2 door wagons), and converted into a NSS legal race car. Coil-over 4-Link, Ford 9″ rear end, chrome moly cage, and front end rebuild were all performed by Mark Artis. Molds were made for the hood, fenders, bumpers, and deck lid — and fiberglass parts pulled from them. Mark performed all of the paint, body, assembly and interior — and made the custom headers for the Diamondback 580ci engine built by Damon Kuhn.

Mark Artis with his standard pose prior to the Whale Migrating South

Yesterday I picked the car up from the shop and brought back to my shop — where the last 100 or so hours of making ready to race will be performed. The below photos were taken just prior to my loading the car into the trailer for the trip home.

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