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October 15, 2011 at
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I was reading some old threads on the Hamb and ran across this one. Did this super ever show up It has to be the 501 I would think.
"I also know the whereabouts of a super that Mario Fuentes raced in the Kansas/ Oklahoma super wars in he late 70's. That car was built by Ken McDaniel. He won the Western World Championship with that car in '78 on the 1/4 mile track at
Manzy."
Warren Vincent
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October 15, 2011 at
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The time I remember Mario in Tulsa it was the 501 car.
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October 18, 2011 at
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Ken McDaniel Race Cars turned into what is called Avenger Chassis today out of El Paso, not sure if they are still in business??.
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October 20, 2011 at
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 Mario Fuentes at Lawton in the 501
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February 08, 2012 at
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Posted By: Racing From The Past on October 15 2011 at 09:59:08 PM
I was reading some old threads on the Hamb and ran across this one. Did this super ever show up It has to be the 501 I would think.
"I also know the whereabouts of a super that Mario Fuentes raced in the Kansas/ Oklahoma super wars in he late 70's. That car was built by Ken McDaniel. He won the Western World Championship with that car in '78 on the 1/4 mile track at
Manzy."
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My name is Wayne Johnson. I currently own (what was told to me to be) the "501" car.
I bought it from a gentleman from Ohio name Duke ??????. He was a well-known sprint
car driver in that area. He said that he got it from a college professor from somewhere in
Texas or New Mexico. What I have is a roller. It has a fairly tall cage and appears to be
straight and I can find no areas where it appears to have spliced or repaired. I have a copy
of a picture that I got from the "bar" under the grandstand @ the 81 Speedway in Wichita
that shows the only markings being the #501 vertically on the cockpit and train tracks and
a locomotive on the hood. The hood and a number of parts on the car are Nance items.
I can be contacted @ [email protected]
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February 08, 2012 at
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Posted By: vintageracer56 on February 08 2012 at 03:11:54 AM
My name is Wayne Johnson. I currently own (what was told to me to be) the "501" car.
I bought it from a gentleman from Ohio name Duke ??????. He was a well-known sprint
car driver in that area. He said that he got it from a college professor from somewhere in
Texas or New Mexico. What I have is a roller. It has a fairly tall cage and appears to be
straight and I can find no areas where it appears to have spliced or repaired. I have a copy
of a picture that I got from the "bar" under the grandstand @ the 81 Speedway in Wichita
that shows the only markings being the #501 vertically on the cockpit and train tracks and
a locomotive on the hood. The hood and a number of parts on the car are Nance items.
I can be contacted @ [email protected]
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the duke you mentioned , could be duke cook.. he was a racer from the ohio area. he bought a nance kit back in the early 80's.....
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February 08, 2012 at
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Posted By: vintageracer56 on February 08 2012 at 03:11:54 AM
My name is Wayne Johnson. I currently own (what was told to me to be) the "501" car.
I bought it from a gentleman from Ohio name Duke ??????. He was a well-known sprint
car driver in that area. He said that he got it from a college professor from somewhere in
Texas or New Mexico. What I have is a roller. It has a fairly tall cage and appears to be
straight and I can find no areas where it appears to have spliced or repaired. I have a copy
of a picture that I got from the "bar" under the grandstand @ the 81 Speedway in Wichita
that shows the only markings being the #501 vertically on the cockpit and train tracks and
a locomotive on the hood. The hood and a number of parts on the car are Nance items.
I can be contacted @ [email protected]
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Warren Vincent
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February 09, 2012 at
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Posted By: Racing From The Past on February 08 2012 at 12:51:58 PM
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Thanks for showing the picture. This is a different one than I have. I was mistaken on who I bought the
car from. I bought it from Jimmy Blanton in Phoenix - he had bought it from Duke Cook. I has the
front one (1) foot broken off of the nose of the hood and it has a sprint tail on it now and none of the
"cab" sheet metal on it. I need a hood to replace the one on it and a "super style" fuel tank. I do have
quite a few parts for sprint cars for sale. I have a NOS Nance nose that is uncut, numerous in/out
boxes, front and rear hubs and spindles, and a few wide steel wheels.
Wayne K. Johnson 319-721-8457
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September 22, 2013 at
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Posted By: vintageracer56 on February 09 2012 at 03:52:00 AM
Thanks for showing the picture. This is a different one than I have. I was mistaken on who I bought the
car from. I bought it from Jimmy Blanton in Phoenix - he had bought it from Duke Cook. I has the
front one (1) foot broken off of the nose of the hood and it has a sprint tail on it now and none of the
"cab" sheet metal on it. I need a hood to replace the one on it and a "super style" fuel tank. I do have
quite a few parts for sprint cars for sale. I have a NOS Nance nose that is uncut, numerous in/out
boxes, front and rear hubs and spindles, and a few wide steel wheels.
Wayne K. Johnson 319-721-8457
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Hello, I just registered a while ago after finding the post about Mario's old car. I do in fact know exactly where the old "Maquina 501" or "Engine 501" in translated terms is. I would love to buy the car, but the owner is not ready to sell yet. I am restoring another old sprint car / super that my uncle Willie Nunez raced in all over the southwest I'm the mid 70's which is what led me to the Fuentes car.
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