| Photo ID # | c11.12.06_747_UNK_FLM_0070_1 |
| Car #: | #747 |
| Driver (s) : | Jimmy Klim or Sammy Beavers |
| Location: | Flemington |
| Date: | 1970's |
| Photographer: | Bill Young |
| Photo provided by: | Kevin Budden |
| Comments: | We
had some fun with this one as a November 2006 Trivia Contest Question. Many of you
knew that this was the radical car driven by Jimmy Klim. Some of you also mentioned
that Sammy Beavers had also driven the car. You guys also made us aware that this car also was driven as a white #28 by Tighe Scott and also as an orange #39 by Sonny Riddle. The question we are still working on is who built it, and the who whether Tighe Scott bought it and then sold it to Sonny Riddle, or if it was the other way around. Going on what a few of you have told me, some feel that this car was built by innovator Jimmy Klim and started out as the "Flip Top Vega" which was a light blue car that can also be found on page 56 of 'The 70's" section. It was later fitted with this body and sold to Sonny Riddle and then purchased by Tighe Scott. Hopefully you guys can get us straightened out here in the Vault because even though this is one of the coolest cars I've ever seen, I don't think I ever remember seeing it at the track (Flemington), so I'm thinking that it didn't make too many appearances before it was sold and then run at Nazareth. |
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| Date: | Visitor's Name: | Comment: |
| 11/22/06 | Rick Shive | Jimmy Klim (and whoever else) built it,, but then I can't remember who had it next, Sonny Riddle or Tighe Scott. |
| 11/22/06 | Greg Chelak |    Sonny Riddle ran it alright [and the most] as the # 39 mostly at Nazareth. Riddle must have been the "Last in the Line" to run it because he carved up the back of the body to put an enlarged fuel tank in it! |
| 11/23/06 | Paul Madsen | Riddle had the car after Scott, If you noticed in the bottom picture they took off the cantilever front suspension. I don't know what became of it after Riddle drove it. |
| 11/26/06 | Rich Reinhart | I was just talking to Tighe about that car last week. I never handled very
well and Tighe never raced it very often. I remember seeing it at Joseph Reigle and Sons
Dodge dealership in storage more than seeing it on the track. We called it the "Moon Buggy". |
| 11/27/06 | Pete Madsen | Now here's a topic I'm rather familiar with! The last paragraph is
correct, although I'm not sure who he sold it to first. I think it was Tighe Scott. They are both the same car. Originally, the car had a one piece body that raised from the front, like a funny car. You had to see it! Of course they wouldn't let him run it like that, so he "butchered it" to the state you see it in in the blue picture. That's how it was when Sam drove it. Over the winter, he built the new body with the intention of selling it. The inboard Koni's, and the rear frame rail going UNDER the rear were just some of his ideas. Don't forget the Ford frame, to get around the "car" chassis rule. He even discovered that certain models had frame rail that was thinner than other models. My car (the pinto 82) was a copy of that car! What was really ironic was that when "Speed Boys" auto of Stroudsburg got the car, Burnett got me a ride in it. The car handled terrible. I drove it for Jimmy at Harmony the previous year. Not in a race.we just pulled in and there was noone there to stop us, so we tested and adjusted over and over. It wasn't any better then! We finally concluded that it just wasn't going to work! Funny, my car worked much better, but in all fairness, he had 1/50 the laps on his that I had on mine. Jimmy wouldn't settle for "normal"! |
| 12/07/06 | S. Kresge | Didn't wayne young drive it when it was numbered 51 ? S. Kresge - Nazareth, PA |
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