New funny car tow rig...

[buickfunnycar]

Hey guys...just picked up this sweet '07 Silverado 2500HD crew cab 4x2 to tow with on Friday, been looking for this exact rig for quite some time and around here, these things are worth their weight in gold and disappear practically overnight.

 

It was a 1-owner truck with just over 79k and was used just to tow and then it looks to have been stored indoors since all the trim looks like new...as is the interior.

I'm replacing a gas '00 F-250 Supercab that I just jockeyed around my 24' Haulmark trailer in town and would use my dad's '00 F-350 Crew with the 7.3L when we went out of town.

 

Brand new to the world of diesels as an owner although I did sell upfitted commercial Ford trucks for about 15 years.

 

Any thoughts/comments/suggestions/observations as a first time diesel owner? This truck has the LMM engine with the DPF.

 

Thanks in advance,

John

 

Whoops...trying to post pictures of the truck but it says files too big...will try and reduce them,lol!

[buickfunnycar]

 

 

 

 

Figured it out,lol!

[Chris]

Hey guys...just picked up this sweet '07 Silverado 2500HD crew cab 4x2 to tow with on Friday, been looking for this exact rig for quite some time and around here, these things are worth their weight in gold and disappear practically overnight.

 

It was a 1-owner truck with just over 79k and was used just to tow and then it looks to have been stored indoors since all the trim looks like new...as is the interior.

I'm replacing a gas '00 F-250 Supercab that I just jockeyed around my 24' Haulmark trailer in town and would use my dad's '00 F-350 Crew with the 7.3L when we went out of town.

 

Brand new to the world of diesels as an owner although I did sell upfitted commercial Ford trucks for about 15 years.

 

Any thoughts/comments/suggestions/observations as a first time diesel owner? This truck has the LMM engine with the DPF.

 

Thanks in advance,

John

 

Whoops...trying to post pictures of the truck but it says files too big...will try and reduce them,lol!

Do you ever run the car in Famoso, California?

[amfr]

So clean

 

sent from Florida beech

[scott19677]

The truck is nice, but that is a REAL funny car! Two thumbs up. I used to run a '72 Stingray with an 8-71 and Enderle mechanical fuel injection 427 on alcohol on the street because I was so in love with early funny cars. My neighbors hated me.lol Makes my nipples hard every time I remember the sound of that thing firing up.

[doverarjim]

A real live "Nail Head" great looking car. Where all have you ran it? Know some guy that do the noglista thing but most of them are rails, and a couple of the Pro Stock guys.

[Chris]

If he does run at famoso, I'll likely see it

[buickfunnycar]

Hey guys, thanks for the kind words.

 

Ingenue was built by my 84 year-old dad (who's still kicking) in 1967 at his speed shop Brooklyn, Speed & Machine in NY when I was almost 10 years old so I remember it like it was yesterday.

My dad was involved with Top Gas dragsters in the mid to late 60's and dad's driver (Steve Malise) also owned Mid-County Buick-Opel in Brooklyn at the time. Well Buick wanted "in" on the funny car scene and so Steve got all 19 NY Buick dealers to kick in $1,000 each and that's how Ingenue became a reality. The chassis is a Logghe copy and a 430 BBB was used from the larger Wildcat's along with a 8-71 blower and a whole host of custom pieces that needed to be created in order to run this thing on a 80% load of nitro.

 

The body was made by Ron Pelligrini of Fiberglass Limited fame in Chicago, Ron used a new Skylark from the showroom of his sponsor Palmer Buick in Chicago to pull 2 bodies, one was our flip-top body and Ron's car was called Super Bird and did not flip up, instead the front clip came off and Ron slid in from the drivers window.

 

While dad ran the dragster...which I still have and will be restored after I'm done with Ingenue...all over the country and at Indy, Pomona, Irwindale and Tenn, the funny car never left the eastern seaboard running match races, I have plenty of articles documenting it's history. Until I acquired it about 6 years ago, it had never been to California and I've had it at Famoso several times, that's how Hot Rod magazine found about it and also Gasoline magazine from Sweden...those guys are NUTS over nostalgia drag racing.

 

Car is currently being restored for cackle service, it will never go down track again except maybe for a cackle fest.

 

I have plenty of pictures of the car in it's day, if you guys want to see them just let me know...it won't take much prodding,lol.

 

Back to the truck...I dropped it off this morning to get the bed Rhino lined, should have it back this afternoon and then the DeeZee NXT running boards go on tomorrow:

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwid_onNjuvKAhVO42MKHQUEB7EQFgg3MAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.deezee.com%2FNXt-Running-Boards%2Fp32983&usg=AFQjCNEaAynh9On1W3ID0WU74P9uPMYCgw