I'd been a fan of this car for a while. I knew the old owners who I got on well with and enjoyed many happy days at the race track. The Chevy 56 did really well on track taking many Street Eliminator records. After many years of good service the owners retired the car and it disappeared for a while. As you can imagine many rumours started going around, as being such a well known record breaking car on the scene. Who bought the car, what's been happening with it, where is it going to race and on and on. It wasn't until new owner Andy Bond rung me with some great ideas for some photo shoots on the new car and would I be interested in doing them. I then got to hear which rumours were true or not. Does a bear do its business in the woods! So yes I was happy to help with his request.
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The following day we all headed to a disused airfield, So the Chevy could stretch her legs for the very first time.
After many careful test runs Andy and his team 'Ugly Sister' started to get to grips with the monster 10.6 liter V8 Twin Turbo power plant. And the times gradually started to fall. Tuning it themselves they made small changes at a time (this takes a while but is the best way to do things.)
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