Bought my dad's old '67 Buick Funny Car "Ingenue"...

Just joined to say hi to all you Buick guys,I'll get my post count up past 10 so I can post some pictures of the car...my dad built the car in 1967 and I've finally been able to bring it home and re-unite him with it...42 years later!

Thanks and stay tuned...:TU:

John

 

Sweet, i want to see the pictures!

 

Cool...gotta get that post count up first though,lol...:TU:

 

John it is already on here and the car has been discussed a lot.


Got to be this one and only car:

http://www.v8buick.com/showthread.php?t=190332

 

John, I see you over on camaros.net a lot, given the craftsmanship you've displayed on your 69 I forsee some really good things coming for this car in the near future:TU:

 

John ,
GREAT story, hope to see the car out next year, if only as a display item.
Do you have any pics when your Dad had the car?

 

That is OUTSTANDING!!! was hoping someone worthy would buy it....and it looks like that happened!
Welcome to the board

 

Hi John, welcome to V8buick.com. I think this is a very cool story on its own that a son all these years later can bring such a famous buick back in his father's life. The smile he must have. Will you race it again? Chris

 

Thank you...and thanks guys,really appreciate it.:TU:

Yes I have pictures ready to post from they way it looked when it was raced new and how it looks today,will post ASAP.

The plan is to get it to run then hopefully cackelfest it.
My dad and I went to Bakersfield last year and hopefully will return with the car in '11,that's the plan.
Right now I'm gathering up as much info as I can on it and I really have to hand it to the Buick community for being so loyal to the marque.

Stay tuned guys,more to come...:Comp:

 

Does it have the Hemi in it? Any idea where the 430 is?

I would love to see this car return to what it was.

Surely a buick mystery being solved.

 

Current owner has a 430 Buick & a TH400 in it,just like it would have when new.
Chromed Wildcat rearend is still in the car.
The owner also secured the original 8:71 chromed blower & fabricated intake dad made which is waay cool.Still need the timing cover redone.
Word is the original 4-bolt block is long gone.

Will post up pics soon...:TU:

 

Dude glad to see you here too. Both the sites you recently joined are the best on the whole web.

Very excited to follow your progress and finally getting to see it in person at some point!!!

Welcome.:TU:

 

Thank you Joe,you Buick guys are very loyal and I dig that.
My dad worked at Mid-County Buick in NY (the owners son Steve Malise piloted the AA/GD's) and in the summer,I'd go to work with him and just play in the new cars...this musta been 1968-9 and I'd be there playing in GS Stage 1 cars and Opel GT's operating the headlights,lol.

I have always had a soft spot in my heart for Buicks because of that,always.

One of the articles I'll post up is titled "Strictly Buick" and that was so true,even the tow rig was usually an Estate wagon or some other rather large Buick.

Thanks again guys...:Brow:

 

One more bump for pictures...

...hope this works.:TU:

 

OK...picture time!

Englishtown 1968,Bruce Bohan original driver:


Fresh out of Brooklyn Speed & Machine,probably the first time it's seen the light of day as a completed car.Chassis is my dad's copy of a Logghe:


Magazine stills shot by noted east coast photog Bob Beattie:


Check out the wheelhouse mouldings,look stock!

7.79 @ 191...in this???


Magazine articles:


Dig the trunk lettering,gotta reproduce that!


Page missing here making the car look shortened,lol:


Display:

 

Race pictures...

Englishtown our home track...love this picture and the way it's tweaking the chassis:


Running Malcom Durham's Strip Blazer '67 stretched Camaro @ NY National Speedway...the DC Lip always ran an all-Chevy operation:


I was at this race (I just turned 10 that month) and I remember it like it was yesterday.The Buick took out Doug Nash's Bronco Buster Bronco II in the 1st round but the trans went sount and lost on the 2nd.
Dyno Don & Mr Norm were both there...that day left a HUGE impressions on me!


Hemi powered and driven by Rapid Red Lang:


I will post up more later guys,gotta go watch the Yankees now...will post up some pics of how it looks now after restoration.

Please keep those thoughts and ideas coming!:3gears:

 

That's right,someone told me it was a Chevy dealer...maybe you...were you there?

 

That is an awesome car! Post more pics NOW! :laugh:

 

Ok...you asked:TU:

All I have left is some pics of the resto,current owner added flatener to the paint to make it appear more like a barn find,I may need to return the car to bright candy-apple red /gold leaf like it was when new:










The detail in the lenses is amazing,Pellegrini really did a great job with the bodies:


Here's how it looks today...just looking at that car gives me a chubby:




And where it currently reside at the Gilmore Museum till Nov 1st,this was from a Sept '09 Hot Rod article: