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Stephan S
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« on: October 19, 2009, 19:20:07 pm »
I'm looking for some information about the EMPI dragster, which currently resides in Japan at Flat4.
I know HotVWs published an article back in '98-00, but I can't find that article! In which issue was the dragster featured? Fabian? Anybody else? Any idea?
Thanks!
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« Reply #1 on: October 19, 2009, 19:33:32 pm »
i've the volksworld one  , and i will look after the hot vws one , stephane , and will send to you , may be not today

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« Reply #2 on: October 19, 2009, 19:56:27 pm »
here's some shot from the voksworld and the b/w came from dune buggies magazine , during  dkp drag day  at carlsbad
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« Reply #3 on: October 19, 2009, 20:02:01 pm »
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it was leel eighton behind the wheels
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« Reply #4 on: October 19, 2009, 20:10:37 pm »
nice pictures fabian
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« Reply #5 on: October 19, 2009, 20:13:08 pm »
That bottom picture with the Lightning Bug's great.  Cool

It looks like a solo pass at first!  Shocked Grin
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« Reply #6 on: October 19, 2009, 21:02:58 pm »
steph just watching my hot vws 98->00 , nothing with the empi dragster , just in  march 00 empi dragster , but the red one driven by phil kelley ,he's on the cover with a empi new beetle
 but i've vw trends march 2003 with the rise and fall of empi empire part x
here's the report
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« Reply #7 on: October 19, 2009, 22:24:10 pm »
Thanks Fabian! This stuff helps.
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« Reply #8 on: October 20, 2009, 15:45:30 pm »
Steph,

Is this the car once owned (and built?) by Doug Church?

If so, I can put you in touch with an old friend who used to wrench on that car in the early days.

~Dave
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« Reply #9 on: October 20, 2009, 17:44:30 pm »
Quote from: Dave Rosique on October 20, 2009, 15:45:30 pm
Steph,

Is this the car once owned (and built?) by Doug Church?

If so, I can put you in touch with an old friend who used to wrench on that car in the early days.

~Dave
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« Reply #10 on: October 20, 2009, 18:32:16 pm »
keith remember this  Wink
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« Reply #11 on: October 20, 2009, 18:33:17 pm »
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« Reply #12 on: October 20, 2009, 18:44:33 pm »
Of course... I was there! Wink
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« Reply #13 on: October 20, 2009, 19:09:51 pm »
The empi dragster in 1968 at EMPI HQ, RG from NY sitting in it.

Then in 2009 at Flat 4, RG from NY.
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« Reply #14 on: October 20, 2009, 19:45:02 pm »
Quote from: Fastbrit on October 20, 2009, 18:44:33 pm
Of course... I was there! Wink


Ah, me too!
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« Reply #15 on: October 20, 2009, 19:47:00 pm »
Quote from: deano on October 20, 2009, 19:45:02 pm
Quote from: Fastbrit on October 20, 2009, 18:44:33 pm
Of course... I was there! Wink


Ah, me too!
A memorable day – Dean Lowry, sun and the EMPI dragster... Oh, you and me, too! Grin
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« Reply #16 on: October 21, 2009, 04:34:02 am »
Quote from: Fastbrit on October 20, 2009, 19:47:00 pm
Quote from: deano on October 20, 2009, 19:45:02 pm
Quote from: Fastbrit on October 20, 2009, 18:44:33 pm
Of course... I was there! Wink
Ah, me too!
A memorable day – Dean Lowry, sun and the EMPI dragster... Oh, you and me, too! Grin

I remember the day I shot those photos of the Empi Dragster at Carlsbad. Scott Lauffer arranged to have the gate open so we could shoot it during the week on the starting line. Except that jerk who ran that place wanted to charge me $250 for one hour of "strip" time, even without starting the engine. Thanks to Scott, we ended up not paying. That dragster looks great with the Carlsbad sign in the background. Home for that ancient charger.
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« Reply #17 on: October 21, 2009, 15:25:12 pm »
Quote from: Fastbrit on October 20, 2009, 17:44:30 pm
Quote from: Dave Rosique on October 20, 2009, 15:45:30 pm
Steph,

Is this the car once owned (and built?) by Doug Church?

If so, I can put you in touch with an old friend who used to wrench on that car in the early days.

~Dave
Sure was...


Just wanted to be sure...

I've mentioned before I used to work for Herb Roberts who used to work for Doug Church back in the day. Herb had spent some time with Doug working on the Dragster back in the 60's. I'm still in touch with Herb, I'll see if he remembers any cool details... maybe he has some old photos too.

I've posted this before but I have to mention it again... Every week during the mid 80's, I would see the Dragster hanging in the rafters of TNT automotive when I was Tom Wright's Snap-on Tools dealer... Tom was always stressed out about work so we didn't have much time to visit about the car... I would often ask him to sell it to me... the answer was a quick "no". Wish I was a little more aggresive about it now.   

I'll be back...

~Dave
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« Reply #18 on: October 22, 2009, 20:45:31 pm »
Hot VWs ran this dragster in the July 1999 issue, pages 50-51.
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« Reply #19 on: October 22, 2009, 21:24:10 pm »
what a BITCHEN ride. hats off to the boys that redid her . if i only new what it was back when i first seen it in the mid/late seventys i would have taken some more shots .UD.
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« Reply #20 on: October 23, 2009, 03:40:14 am »
I just want to say what a great thing that the guys did , when they found and restored it, HISTORY! A fricken vision. On another note, Are hobby has came a long way for collecting stuff. Stuff at one time worth hardly anything to the point its at. PS there should be more input from anybody that restored it, What shape, parts they found and stuff that brought the build all together.
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« Reply #21 on: March 10, 2010, 23:01:05 pm »
just found this shot and write up on the Doug Church/EMPI rail on the NHRA site




We've all seen dragsters with Volkswagen engines, Nissan engines, and even Subaru engines, but what about a Porsche? Long Beach, Calif.'s Doug Church fielded this cool-looking rail in the 1960s and, along with Don Garlits, Tommy Ivo, Tony Nancy, "Ohio George" Montgomery, K.S. Pittman, Ronnie Sox, Dave Strickler, and others, was part of the U.S. Drag Racing team's six-race tour to England in 1964, which was organized by British Drag Racing Association Chairman Sidney Allard and NHRA President Wally Parks. The 11-second digger is shown running at the Blackbushe Drag Fest in Hampshire Sept. 19. All of the events were run on RAF airfields.
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