MY FIRST CAR into a body-off-theframe restoration by Jeff Gable of Stratford, Ontario. Still having the basic Stock Eliminator drivetrain in the Chevelle, I wasn’t sure if I needed two race cars. I decided to convert the Chevelle to a legal IHRA Pure Stock car, which required very few modifications. With the addition of exhaust and street tires I am still able to drive the Chevelle on the street in this current configuration!” “During all the racing I have done, we have raised two children who each had junior dragsters from the age of 8, and who now each have full-size race cars
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that compete at Grand Bend in the Street and Modified ET classes. Our most recent acquisition is a 1969 Chevelle Stock Eliminator wagon
which runs K/SA and was W. A. Lee’s original car. It is being campaigned by my 21-year-old daughter and her boyfriend.” So continues the story of Doug Box and how his very first car, a 1969 Chevelle that he earned for his sixteenth birthday, changed his life. “Looking back at all my years in cars and racing (35 in total!), the best things about drag racing are all the good people you meet, the friends you make, and the good times you have.”
AUGUST 2014 | RPM Magazine
GOOD DEAL! Doug Box and his first car that he earned from his mom by keeping it clean for two years for her!