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Can any of you Identify the Year and Model of this Old (I believe?) Chevy Coupe Drag Car> Mister Irish. This was a car I grew up around as a kid and teenager in my old Hometown of South Plainfield N.J., as a local body shop(R&C) near me built and raced it. I always thought it was a Beautiful Car, but I'm NOT THAT OLD, and never knew the year and model, and only think it's a Chevy ? BTW- this is the only surviving photo of this car, and I actually emailed the Original body shop to get it.


BTW- this is an earlier photo of the car, and later in it's life, it was rebuilt faster, and featured a Blower and much larger rear tires. This car was a Beautiful Metalflake Shamrock Green Color. And it used to Race at Englishtown Raceway Park in N.J.

PS- *Note the lack of side windows behind the doors. What old Chevy Model was like this ?

Looks like a '40 or '41 chevy.....

They were 5 window coupes.

Looks like someone made a phantom here(a car never made factory this way) by welding the rear side windows closed to make it look like a 3 window.

Cool pic!

Thanks for sharing!

Wayne (Bolton's Speed Shop and Paint Works) :D :D :D

Yeah- It looks like this '40 Chevy coupe, but it's lacking the extra windows...

I cannot remember if the original body(before it became Mr. Irish) had those windows, as I used to sit in the car as a pre-teen and pretend I was a Race Car Driver... :D

In conclusion to the Original topic, I contacted the original car owners son- Carl, and he has Confirmed it WAS a '40 Chevy Coupe, that Was Customized and had the extra side windows filled in....afterall they WERE a Body Shop - LOL :D

Anyway, now I'm off to start planing to build a model of that car in HO. I'll be using Tyco's old '40 Ford as the body basis, but will change the nose to -(If I remember?) a plastic diecast body that was a '40 Chevy Sedan/Wagon....at least I Hope it was a '40 ? I'll go check my archives...

Woohoo ! I found MORE Pix Online, as well as info of what became of Mr. Irish...

FYI- they are pix of it's final incarnation in the early 80's right before it was sold.

Don't ya just LOVE Old Gassers- Before they had Narrowed Rear Ends !

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/show ... stcount=50

Yup. Gassers are a gas. Them and the altereds were spawning grounds for all sorts of crazy
ideas. And many even worked. One of my favorites is Wild Willy Borsch's Winged Express.

Those are seriously cool pics. I love the old Gassers and some of the vintage stuff is just the best. I know if you do a search of Continental Divide Raceway, you'll get some good pics due to the dragstrip being very popular.