Gregg Grubel
1951 Chevy - Class Reunion
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Car: 1951 Chevy 2 Door Sedan
Name: Class Reunion Car #1951
Engine 455 Oldsmobile with an Algon stack injection setup to run alchohol
Best Time: 9.67 at 135mph
Favorite Track - Numidia
Awards: Won a Wally racing with MANDRA at DelMar in 2002, and we finished
3rd in MANDRA points in 2003. Received a Best appearing race car twice at the Phila Modifiers events.
Events attended: Goodguys at Indianapolis several times,
(even got the first ride on their new rollback truck when we blew the motor)
NHRR-Bowling Green, twice. The Gasser Reunion at Thompson OH.
We attend the Willys Home Run/Gas Coupe & Sedan Nationals every summer.
Crew: Gregg/driver & mechanic,
wife Chris/crew chief and long time friend Butch/crew
How long you had the
car: Built the car in 1995 when we
couldn't run our
1955 Chevy street cruiser any quicker than 12.0 seconds without a roll cage
and we didn't want to cut up the new interior. So that's when the Class
Reunion car began.
MANDRA Founding Member.
How
long you have been racing: I first raced in the '60s, then got into
motorcycles for about
25 years. Decided to build the street cruiser with a 455 Oldsmobile in it
and when it was finished thought
I'd take it down to Maple Grove for a Friday night grudge nite just to see
what it would do and the racing
bug snuck up and bit me again. That was about '94 and we've been racing ever
since.
Anything
special you want to say about the car or the club?
MANDRA gives us a place to race with friends just for the fun, good
sportsmanship, bench
racing & bragging rights, without the grind of the track bracket programs.
