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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
Cans 4 Kansas Heroes

The time I remember Mario in Tulsa it was the 501 car.

Ken McDaniel Race Cars turned into what is called Avenger Chassis today out of El Paso, not sure if they are still in business??.

Mario Fuentes at Lawton in the 501

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]

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.....

Warren Vincent
Cans 4 Kansas Heroes

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

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.