I bought the car turn key. It had a 461” BBC with a single Dominator. It had been running in S/G. Tommy wanted to dis-assemble the engine and freshen it up. While we had it apart we decided to put a different cam in it and put a front belt drive on it.

The car had 2”x3” mild steel main frame rails with the rest of the chassis being round tube mild steel. This was ultra trick to me since the ‘56 still had the stock frame. It was far from a Pro Stock chassis but it was way cool to me. It had polished aluminum interior. I was super proud it.

Tommy and I went to the NHRA national event in Sonoma, California just to watch and that’s when I first saw a late model Camaro up close. Wow…I loved it. I stated looking for one and started making plans to sell the Beretta. I put the Beretta up for sale and found a late model Camaro for sale. I sold the Beretta rolling one afternoon in the summer of 1998 and after they loaded it up I called to see if I could go look at the Camaro. I still remember leaving out with intensions to buy the Camaro and as I was leaving the Beretta was parked at a restaurant in town. They hadn’t even left town and I was already on the way to buy my next car.

I drove to Potts Camp, Mississippi and bought a Camaro that started to be built in 1994 and was made at least raceable in 1997. It still didn’t have to tin work finished that attached to the front end that surrounds the engine. It was built by Freddie Horn of Greenville, Kentucky. It was an all round tube chrome moly chassis. I made a deal on the car rolling and a 1996 30’ Vintage enclosed trailer too. At the time I had a 1993 ¾ ton Chevrolet Suburban with a 350 in it. I didn’t even have a trailer hitch to hook up to the trailer. Bubba Stanton who I bought the car and trailer from threw in a weight distribution hitch as part of the deal. You can imagine how that load weighed down that Suburban. Here I go headed back to Seminole, Texas pulling an enclosed trailer for the first time. It was a pretty stressful trip back home. I still remember driving through Dallas making a pretty good left turn and that trailer really fishtailing. I wasn’t set up for that trip. I’m glad the trailer was empty and the car didn’t have an engine in it or I would have been in trouble. But I made it home. I sure was proud of my car and trailer.