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Photo ID # I11.16.12_713_FIS_FLM_0080_1
Car #: #713
Driver (s) : Bob Fisher
Location: Flemington Speedway
Date: 1980's
Photographer: Lenny Swider
Photo provided by: Lenny Swider
Comments: Comment:  Another really interesting creation built by builder/driver Bob Fisher.  This car later became the orange and white #18 driven by George Hildebrandt.
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11.18.12 Kevin Mc

I'm thinking that's Dave Bodine's 69 Sportsman car barely visible in the back ground   I wonder if I was there that night.    Back when all was right in the world and we didn't even realize it   Stupid progress!

11.18.12 3Wide Pretty sure that Dave's #69 was built by Bob Fisher.
11.26.12 George Jr.

Looks to me like the builder of this modified took a good long look at Kenny Weld's "Batmobile" from the 1980 season and incorporated some of what Kenny used.  The roof height is higher than normal....the rake of the roof for a wing affect.....the side panels including the "fin" like quarter panels.....and the rolled deck lid are just some of the things that I think compare to how the Weld modified looked.
George Jr.  Frederick, MD

11.26.12 3Wide Hadn't noticed it before George, but now that you mention it, I see what you mean...  Bob stops by The Vault once in a while so hopefully he'll let us know if he was thinking a little about the Batmobile when he made this one or not.
11.30.12 Mark Burd

I could be wrong but it looks like there is no engine in the 713.......

12.02.12 Bob Burd

After George Hildebrant bought the 713, my brothers and I and a friend helped sponsor him.  I asked him what it was supposed to be and he said a Cadillac.  That was cool because we were running a Cadillac when everyone else was running a Gremlin lol. Maybe the batmobile was supposed to be a cad also. 

He ran sportsman with the only 1962 chevy corvette 327 small block motor built by Fred Bitner at the time when Fred was building the big blocks for Billy Pauch. 

It was fast and had torsion bar suspension which that handled great but, was a pain because if George hit the fence, it cost $2200 in Fisher's shop to fix it.  He won a lot of races, but not a championship probably because of the fragile suspension.  I think Scott Pursell deservedly won the Flemington sportsman championship that yr which I think was 1982.  With the 3 and out, he had to go to modified and did not have the same success.

12.02.12 3-Wide Regarding the Batmobile, it was actually called a "Lincoln Continental" and was claimed to be that because I am told that the roof had to be the size of whatever the stock car it was named for was.  Since the Lincoln had the biggest roof that year, that's what the team that built the #112 went with.  Also, if you look at the back of the #112, you'll see the "Continental Like" spare tire circle.
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

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