1962 Us Nationals Ss/S Winner

[Chas SCR]

This is the first time for me building a drag car. So I picked a car that I was able to get 99% of all the facts on and here it is. Its the Hayden Proffitt 1962 US Nationals winner car. The hardest part of the build was the fenderwall headers as the driver side is three over and one under the steering shaft. After spending more then 4 days on it I was able to figur it out and every thing fits into there place. Also you can go and look at all the pics and see where the rear end was reworked as this was a hush hush type of stuff was done to the car. Enjoy the pics.

Link to all the pics

http://public.fotki.com/Streetrodcustom/customs/gsl/hayden-62/

[Jason Vandergriff]

looking great so far.

[W-409]

Yeah, looking good. I have on the bench '61 Don Nicholson's Impala and my dad built '62 Bel Air ''old reliable''. What color interior will be?

[Smart-Resins]

This will be a good one to watch! Jody

[disabled modeler]

Looking good!

[Chas SCR]

Thank you every one. The interior is red on Haydens car. I wish I had a scanner so I could put some of the ref pics and what we done to this car out so people could see it better.

[Chas SCR]

I guess I could move this to the under the glass section now.

This was some thing done with the help of a lot of people and started out 5yrs ago up in Detroit with Randy Frost. After 4yrs of talking to two people and also trying to find any thing about this 1 car was like little to none. (Yes I know they did a replica and its in the magazine, Read it fully and you will also see where they say its not 100% right on the car) When they did the real car a few years ago they ran into the same trouble as I did.. Not a lot of pics on this car. (yes there is pics of the car he ran before the Nationals and after but not at the Nationals.) The only pics I was able to find to help was the 1962 Hot Rod Magazine that cover the US Nationals. 2 pics and not up close. Phil Reed was a great help on this project as he has talked to and also taken a lot of notes on Hayden's life in racing.

(Yes it was done in urethane clear) Color is Cardinal red. The right rear sping was cut and also added the vavle stems, Cheater slics from Replic Min of Maryland, MCW decales, MCG bel aire PE set. I did the suntach decale for the tach box under the hood. Sanderson headers, I wired every thing but did not run the two wires from the generator to the battery inside the black insulater like you are suppost to. The rear end also has the extra top link on the driver side. The brake lines and fuel line was ran under the car and through the tunnel the right way. The brake lines also have the brass splitters on them (not to shure what the real name of them are) this is what we call them here. R&B Motion spark plug's and boots was added. The dip stick was also added and the extra trim on the trunk that AMT did not put on the body. Under the chassis has the NHRA rules on the muffler and exhaust pipes in stock location up to the front of the rear axel.

Note: I know there is ? on if this car had a the 409 on the hood. From the magazine pics does show the top of the hood and it does not have it. Plus Phil said it did not have it on the hood that weekend. I did take a lot of time talking to Phil and also Harold Clay.. This was not an easy job because of nothing being noted as when and where each of the cars was ran or being he exact car.