Have you seen this car?

We are interested to find out if anybody may have any informantion about the 23 Model T Tony Morris raced in Germany from 1985 to 1991. This is the last photo we have of the car when Werner Lange own it.
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p...T/2002_151.jpg

The next picture shows the car in 1985 the first year Tony race it.
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p...85-22PODWF.jpg

This was how it looked between 1986-1988.
Giebelstadt 1986
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p...T/scan0026.jpg
Hockenheim 1986
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p...HOCKENHEIM.jpg

This was how it looked from 1989.
Giebelstadt 1989
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p...%20T/89-11.jpg
Hockenheim 1990
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p...20T/1990-7.jpg

This was how the car was sold in May 1991.
Hockenheim May 1991
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p...l%20T/91-1.jpg

If you have any informantion please let us know, this car won many championship and it would be sad if this car were lost.
Thanks

Hi Leute,

mein Bruder sucht seinen ehemaligen Rennwagen, wir haben vor ca. einem Jahr schonmal hier im Forum ein Aufruf für Information versucht.
Damals haben wir herausgefunden, dass das Fahrzeug aus den Besitz von Werner Lange an eine Diskothek im Breisgau ging, wo es eine Weile als Ausstellungstück von der Decke hing, danach wurde es an ein Getränkeimporteur in Freiburg/Breisgau verkauft wo es angeblich zu Promotionzwecke für Budweiser und Corona Bier verwendet wurde.

Da es hier viele Neue Leser gibt fragen wir heute nochmal nach, ob jemand weis wo dieses Auto sich befindet?
Vielleicht kann uns jemand sogar sagen wer der Generalimporteur für Budweiser und Corona Bier ist, ich konnte diese Info leider im Internet nicht eindeutig finden?

Das Fahrzeug ist ein 1923er Ford Model 'T' und wurde von Tony "Chunky" Morris in Deutschland zwischen 1985 und 1991 gefahren.

Die Autos oben zeigen wie das Fahrzeug mit seinen verschiedenen Lackierungen aussah, das erste Photo ist das was wir zuletzt über dieses Forum erhalten haben.

Danke und Gruss
Andrea

Inzwischen haben wir herausgefunden, dass das Auto vor ein paar Jahren über ebay verkauft wurde nachdem es in einer Diskothek an der Decke hing.
Der Ebay käufer hatte es gekauft und irgendwo in Deutschland in einer Kneipe als Dekoration hingestellt. Leider wissen wir den Ort nicht, hoffen aber das wir bald weitere Infos bekommen.

Also wenn jemand zufälligerweise beim abendlichen Biergenuss einen Dragster in der Kneipe rumstehen sieht, dann bitte meldet Euch :-)

Andrea :wink:

was für eine schande! als deko...

We have some good news to report, my old car has been found and is now back in England with Dave Gibbons. I purchased the car from Dave in August 1984 and with his help raced the car untill 1991. When I told Dave that we had found the car last year in Austria he was very interested in how it looked and in what condition it was in. After a few phone calls to Austria the deal was done and this past weekend Dave togather with some friends made the trip from England to Austria.

This was taken today out side Dave's house.

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p...G_1936_1_1.jpg

Dave plans to put it back to how he raced it back in the early 80's so it should end up looking like this.

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p...DAVERACING.jpg

Thanks to everybody who help in finding the car.

Tony

OK guy's I need your help again we are trying to find the following dragster. This dragster was imported into Germany in 1980 from England by Roy Morris my father, then sold to a local guy in Frankfurt.

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p...cannen0077.jpg

He then later sold it to Gerd Habbermann who race it with the Volve motor for some time. As below in the following picture.

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p...1/scan0024.jpg

Gerd then sold it on and it change to the next picture.

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p...1/scan0004.jpg

Gerd has inform me that this dragster was on ebay around a year ago, can anybody tell us who now has the dragster.

One more thing if you have any picture's from when this car was raced in Germany please contact me thanks Tony

Zitat:

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Original von groovemachine
was für eine schande! als deko...

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Besser als kaputt gefahren.

Hi Tony & Nostalgia Fanz !
Dieser Dragster war zuletzt im Besitz von Käfer-TreterTheo Stahl.
Er hatte ihn in den 90ern überholt und neu lackiert,
er hieß dann "Scorpion" mit entsprechendem Airbrush.
Grundfarbe weiß, mit einigen Details (Rollcage Padding) in Pink,
denn der Slingshot wurde für Theo´s Frau Sabine Mahoney aufgebaut.

(Theo paßte beim besten Willen nicht in das sehr schmale Chassis...:D)

Der gußeiserne "High Compression" Volvo Vergaser Motor wurde beibehalten.
Sabine ist diesen Slingshot einige Male gefahren,
hat damit aber nur an wenigen Rennen teilgenommen.
Theo zu erreichen, ist nicht einfach, vielleicht kann Udo Becker hier helfen,
und Theo fragen, ob er die Adresse des Ebay-Käufers noch hat.

Bis dann,
Benni

P.S.: Laut Eurodragster ist dieser Slingshot ein echtes Stück "Drag Racing History",
denn es soll der erste Dragster gewesen sein,
der jemals auf der Bahn von Santa Pod gefahren ist.
Das müßte so um 1964-66 gewesen sein.........................:eek2:
Jetzt sucht die Tochter des Engländers, der ihn gebaut/gefahren hat, danach.

Ich glaube der Dragster ist heute im Besitz des Großvaters der Klassenkameradin meiner Tochter und steht in Kassel. Tja, so klein ist die Welt. Zumindest hatte er mich letztes Jahr angerufen und gesagt, er hätte bei Ebay zugeschlagen. Ich werde versuchen, ihn zu erreichen und ihn bitten, mir mal aktuelle Fotos zu mailen...

Gruß!
Dennis

Thanks guy's keep me updated.

Tony

Hi guy's just wonder if you had any news yet on who has the dragster and where it is, thanks Tony

Hi Guy's just wondered if there was any news on the mini dragster yet's

Tony

Well after over three year of hard work on my old race car, Dave Gibbons has now finshed it. Dave entered his first race event (Summernationals) in 27 years behind the streering wheel of the car he would sell me back in September 1984.

This was the day I arrived back from England with my then new race car (Feb 1985) after Dave had replaced the rollcage with a taller one.
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p...-1ERLENSEE.jpg

This is the car after a three year rebuild April 2011...
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p...3559_1_2_1.jpg

As you may see in the picture the Model T it now running with a big block 468ci Chevy, instead of the small block 331ci Chevy we both ran back then.

Dave was happy to let me help take the car apart on a visit to England back in the summer of 2008 to start thing going and check everything over for the rebuild, plus start making a list of parts needed for me to send over from the states to help out on the project.
The last time I sat in the car
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p...1143729_n1.jpg
This is Dave striping it down
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p...4026724_n1.jpg

Dave has done a wonderful job of rebuilding this race car which now has a new chrome moly frame (A copy of the old one) so the car is up to current spec. He was kind enough to ask if I would like to drive the car on a visit in the future, I told him that he should build the car just like the way he raced it with the low cage which always made the car look really cool.
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p...2731525_n1.jpg

These were taken when the car roll out the workshop for the first time with the body repainted in blue on the new frame in 2009
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p...IMG_2634_1.jpg
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p...IMG_2636_2.jpg
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p...IMG_2637_3.jpg

More to follow

really cool, thanks for sharing tony!

The following pictures were took on my next trip to England August 2010.

By now the body had been finshed with the logo Rough Diamond and Dave's name plus the rest of the strips.
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p...6008029_n1.jpg

Now you can see how Dave can get away with the low cage.
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p...4116689_n1.jpg
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p...3300337_n1.jpg

By this time the motor was almost finshed, the trans however needed to be check out and another list made for me to order some parts from JW Performance Transmission on my arrival back home.

I also carried this carb back with me to the US which is a 800 holley, Dave had this on the car when he own it back in the 80's but it never ran good. Now you would think he would want a 1050 DOM on the 468 but because he wanted to use the same hood scoop to keep the same look we had to ues a 4150 carb again. As this was already in Dave's hands he asked if we could start with this to keep the cost down.
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p...1/DSC02064.jpg

So I had to make the carb just as nice as the rest of the car and make it look like new. Which is pretty much what I do every day.

October 2010
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p...1/DSC02374.jpg

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p...1/DSC02380.jpg

So this last June at the Summernationals in England (Santa Pod) Dave got to run the Model T
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p...7809953_n1.jpg
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p...5188384_n1.jpg

Dave ended up the number one qualifier by the end of the day making it to the three round. He best et of the weekend was a 8.72 @148mph.
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p..._610077_n1.jpg
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p...4643254_n1.jpg

Next weekend Dave is racing at Santa Pod again at the Drastalgia event, he hope to get the car down in the low 8.60's and over 150mph.

I will get you posted on his progress thanks for looking Tony

thanks for sharing...

sehr cool :) thanks for posting this!!

Still would like to know if anybody has heard of the whereabouts of the mini dragster from earlier in this post? If there is please let us know thanks Tony