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Title: check this out
Post by: steveo on July 31, 2011, 09:50:59 am: http://cal-look.no/lounge/index.php?topic=11449.0
http://cal-look.no/lounge/index.php?topic=1112.990

Killing time at work and found this about my good buddy 3#blab#
Don't know if there is anything in the vid of the zonker or not
steveo
Title: Re: check this out
Post by: 6T5 square on July 31, 2011, 04:10:38 pm: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-D_z1Zy5aRo&feature=player_embedded

in this video, the bug is hard to read. It might be Jack, but he'll have to tell us.

It's a 17 minute video and the car appears around 16:37
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Post by: Baha (Shawn) on July 31, 2011, 06:01:40 pm: Here. I cleaned it up & clipped it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0cyFIBjvII
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Post by: lovebus (jack) on July 31, 2011, 07:03:13 pm: Kool Steveo, I think I will answer some of their questions later tonight.
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Post by: Baha (Shawn) on July 31, 2011, 08:01:05 pm: Quote from: JackWagen (jack) on July 31, 2011, 07:03:13 pm
Kool Steveo, I think I will answer some of their questions later tonight.

How 'bout you tell US now! ?/banghea?/
Title: Re: check this out
Post by: lovebus (jack) on July 31, 2011, 09:36:28 pm: Quote from: Baha (Shawn) on July 31, 2011, 08:01:05 pm

How 'bout you tell US now! ?/banghea?/

OK
First, thats not my car in the video.

A little insight on the Screamin Zonker.
The car was I/G I-Gasser built by Jack and Art Kessel of Kessel?s VW Service in Clayton, NJ and yes, they started out in Monrowville, NJ. They campaigned the car in the NHRA, NHRA World Championship Searis (WCS) and UDRA and their home track was Atco, NJ, winning to many races to count and also winning I-Gas Class at the 1973 Summer Nats in Englishtown, NJ

The car was capable of running under the world record but we never tried to set a new one, why ruin a good thing just to have your name in a record book...We were not publicity seekers, never sent photos to any magazines or any thing like that, we just loved to rACE.

The car ran in the low 11?s at around 120MPH. Their last race was at a WCS event in Ontario Canada at Cayuga taking 2nd place. That race left a very bad taste in their mouth towards the NHRA and they never raced again.

The car was sold to a local person in Elmer, NJ and never did much after that, I don?t know what happened to the car but I do know where the engine out of it is, in my garage waiting for me to get off my lazy a** to rebuild it and put it in my street car. (o: How I came upon the engine is another story that I won?t go into now.

If I can help with any other info I?ll be glad to help. Below is a photo of back then and on my 65 birthday, 6yrs ago, I was the driver and the one on the right in the photos.

(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-3pz__kd91a8/TdbgK9_U-_I/AAAAAAAAF0Q/xLItkXh7trw/s512/ThenandNow.jpg)
Title: Re: check this out
Post by: kvbug (karen) on July 31, 2011, 09:45:43 pm: Jack that's really cool, thanks for sharing it!! 2@@cool
Title: Re: check this out
Post by: steveo on August 01, 2011, 05:24:44 am: Quote from: JackWagen (jack) on July 31, 2011, 07:03:13 pm
Kool Steveo, I think I will answer some of their questions later tonight.

Anything for you buddy ?/moon2..
steveo
Title: Re: check this out
Post by: Baha (Shawn) on August 03, 2011, 08:06:57 pm: Steveo! Where ya Been???

If you're down the shore this weekend run up to Belleplaine park Friday eve & hang out with us "by the fire" !
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Post by: lovebus (jack) on August 04, 2011, 07:03:44 am: Found two more pixs on the Cal look forums. Deno from Hot VW's wants me to send him the Englishtown winners circle pix. I had forgot we held the I/G record at Atco for a year till I saw the old Empi ad

(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-7j8gQ6RJ80c/Tjp5vV6oYoI/AAAAAAAAHDo/YJ9GAearnDI/s512/ZonkerEmpiAd-1.jpg)

(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-aVE7GVY4d1U/Tjp5v249acI/AAAAAAAAHDw/ZAR6rgM67rg/ZonkerAtco.jpg)
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Post by: kvbug (karen) on August 04, 2011, 07:10:33 am: Love it! 2@@cool
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Post by: 6T5 square on August 04, 2011, 08:07:27 am: try to send him the pic with the trailer (single cab) That was your car I saw on top of it, wasnt it?
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Post by: lovebus (jack) on August 04, 2011, 08:41:48 am: That was our car John. To be honest they have more photos of my car then I do.
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Post by: katies 55bug on August 05, 2011, 06:24:18 pm: I love that last pic! Nice takeoff! (*speeder
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Post by: Bob(Herbie) on August 05, 2011, 08:19:29 pm: Awesome Jack,
How much HP did that engine put to the wheels?
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Post by: steveo on August 05, 2011, 08:26:23 pm: Buddy...see all the doors I opened for you by being bored at work?? =+grouphu9
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Post by: steveo on August 05, 2011, 08:29:21 pm: Quote from: Baha (Shawn) on August 03, 2011, 08:06:57 pm
Steveo! Where ya Been???

If you're down the shore this weekend run up to Belleplaine park Friday eve & hang out with us "by the fire" !

I've been bored at work...they've been throwing OT at us for the last couple months...am going to try and make it to the ice cream run.
steveo
Title: Re: check this out
Post by: lovebus (jack) on August 06, 2011, 09:30:12 pm: Quote from: steveo on August 05, 2011, 08:26:23 pm
Buddy...see all the doors I opened for you by being bored at work?? =+grouphu9

I'd be lost without ya bud.