Please point him to my tube radio web page. There are some things there that are "cool and old." I still wish I'd picked up that Hallicrafter you pointed out to me, but a friend here in Tulsa has a couple and I'm gonna buy his. So that was a lucky find.

Another lucky find is that he brought over two huge boxes of NOS tubes - still in their cardboard boxes! So I bought a couple hundred tubes of various kinds. I'll have to go through and catalog them sometime. Everything there from the two-digit tubes (like "45") of the early years to the miniature tubes of the 50's. What a deal!

Now if I can just talk him out of his 426 Hemi engines and his Dana 44 differentials...

But I just can't help but think of good uses for those Mopar parts. For years, I've been talking about putting some "heavy metal" in a Russian Volga.

1967 Volga

It looks pretty plain here, but I think it would be really unique to see one of these with a blower sticking up through the hood and shortened rear end to fit huge "wrinkle wall" back tires. Kicking and bucking at the staging lights, logo that says "Волга" (Volga) would be very unusual and cool. Even paint it pearl black and put small words on the trunk lid, "Меxаническая Перегрузка," which means "mechanical overload" in Russian.

Cool, huh?!! That would turn heads at the Saturday evening track!

Bill Martinelli

Our local track is still running strong, we have great attendance here and every Saturday night from around March to November brings 'em out. And not everyone is running 2 liters - some big American iron still runs - and even those that are in the little rice rockets sometimes have cool stuff.

We also have the Spring Nationals in April that usually brings out the big names every year. And speaking of Strange, I always loved the name "Strange Engineering" and the cars they sponsored. Every time I'd see the truck, I'd get visions of "weird science" inside and on the car, and you know, that's not far from the truth!

Remember Moon Eyes?