Thread: Jerry Clayton in scale .........

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Jerry Clayton and his partner, the late John Keeling, brought us some marvelous vehicles ......... and it's my pleasure to replicate them in plastic and resin

Way Cool! Some great model work there.

Awesome work and thanks for posting. I now would like to know some history of the team and the cars please Jerry.

More really great work! Thanks for the pics!

WOW.....Amazing work in scale...........2 thumbs up

Really clean work! I always loved their team cars. The cars were beautiful, and the graphic art style was so unique! Wasn't the painter George Cerny?

I searched for a model car thread, with no luck. Is that not a popular subject with the group?

Hey,coyote,,theyre kool..Very nice work..Its nice to look back at those days..

Thanks John for not only displaying some of my cars BUT your excellent modeling ability--I wasn't ever able to do anything like that, However Revell did issue me an honorary master model builder certificate after I tried to build one of the kits and gave up and then built the rear engine car.

For those questions about the cars----

First, the paint jobs--yes, George Cerny---the front engine car was lettered by Kenny Youngblood, it was supposed to be done by Matt Quick, but he didn't show up so Cerny used Kenny, who was just starting to do some cars--he was very nervous about if it would be ok-----
This car won many Best Appearing Car awards at the races we went to, was exhibited at main entrance to SEMA show,LA auto show, etc--
With it we set numerous Low ET s and track records including the NHRA National record. A couple weeks after the national record set at Fremont Ca, we put the side wings on and lowered the track record we held at OCIR over 2 tenths!!!!within about 24 hours about every fueler anywhere was in process of adding side wings to there car.

I gotta go eat breakfast so I'll try to type more later about the other s

Awesome rods OC! Seeing those great models make me want to build one for my office!

Of course the last time I did that was over 40 years ago and I took it out back behind the barn and blew them up with firecrackers!

Jerry, what gave you guys the idea to stick the wings on the side?

Wings-----Hummmmmm----well, I also have a long history of wings

Those basicly are the wings that Don Long built to go on the front axle to keep the car down at speed---only a few people used them---then John Wiebe had put a similar type wing on the side of his car just in front of the rear wheel to lift the air over the tire ---the upswept headers had pretty well streamlined the tops of the slicks but a lot of air was below the header area and they helped him some---Being that John Keeling and I both worked for the airlines, we were around that stuff a lot--

I said that the wings needed to be mounted further forward to lift the air from down low and let the exhaust flow continue the lift and actually accerate it over the tires---Finally came up with a plan with Don Long on where and how to do it----pretty much a secret until we unloaded at OCIR. By the end of the day on Monday, Long had sold every wing he had and had reordered more TWICE before the day was over!!!Before we had set the et record at Orange County(OCIR) McKeon(Mongoose) had held it for 2 years at 6.63 and we lowered it to 6:61---the next trip there(with the wings) was the PDA race(32 car field) which pretty much had everybody at it---we lowered track record to 6:41 in semi final against Don Prudome in his wedge rear engine car (lots of publicity on it as the leading edge of RED) with a 6:41 also(quickest side by side run ever at that time) We lost a blower belt at about the 1000 ft mark and only turned speed of 208mph while he ran 230+!!!

With a new belt for the finals, we were expeted to win over Schulz and Glenn, but we launched the blower because of the steel braid trash in the cylinders from the run before. Its been written many times that we won the race but didn't until the next year with our RED---

Perhaps a trick question!

Did that first ride with the wings feel anything different? .2 is a huge difference!

So neat to hear about the thought behind the action! As a pilot I love to hear about the application of flight dynamics to be the answer to the quest for a quicker ETA! Kind of an original thought at that time...

Must have given you a grin when you saw the rest of the group buying wings!

Ramsey said there was so much more air moving over top of car that he couldn't hold his head forward so he kept shutting off early---with every run he got more used to it and went further and also quicker altho he did stay around 208-212 while others were running high 220s and some 230s

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