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VintageBuzz
08-08-2009, 08:31 PM
Jack Hahn (Cheyenne, WY) is probably best known for building and driving his sprint cars. But in 1964, Jack teamed up with Bernard Conway (Cheyenne, WY) and together they dethroned ace-driver Kenny Clark #13 (Cheyenne, WY) for a C-Class Track-Championship at Intermountain Speedway.
In the years 1965 through 1971, Kenny Clark #13 ruled the C-Class Track-Championship. Kenny was not dethroned again until 1972 by Billy Noud #98 (Cheyenne, WY). Jack finished 5th in points in 1965; and in 1966, Jack turned his retired #64 over to rookie-driver Bill McHone #42 (Cheyenne, WY), who then gave chase to Kenny Clark #13 for years to come.
As a side note, Bernard Conway was himself a legend, as he teamed up with Johnny Woodhouse (Cheyenne, WY) as the Conway-Woodhouse drag racing team (The Soda-Pop Gang). Together, and with Jack's counsel, Conway-Woodhouse produced some of the finest NHRA AA-Altered record-holding roadsters every built in the Rocky Mountain area.
If anyone has information and/or photos for Jack Hahn and Conway-Woodhouse, please share them with us here at ARM.
This photo of Jack and his #64 comes from the WARC History Book on page #133. ~VB

lakeside #29
08-09-2009, 03:45 PM
You know Buzz, I can't think of too many cars that make a better looking race car than a "Tri-5" Chevy. They just have a cool factor. I really dug those early late models. Thanks for the pics.

Chris Ertler-"professor coupe"

VintageBuzz
08-09-2009, 08:11 PM
You know Buzz, I can't think of too many cars that make a better looking race car than a "Tri-5" Chevy. They just have a cool factor. I really dug those early late models. Thanks for the pics.
Chris Ertler-"professor coupe"

Hey, "professor coupe"! Yeah, my Dad built and raced the old Ford coupes and roadsters that any of us would kill for now. And, I sacrificed my share of cherry '55 Chevys at the altar of those same race gods. My Dad used to encourage me to save '55 Belair & Del-Ray hubcaps, chrome, interior trim, bench-seats, etc. But hey, I was getting my choice of all the '55s that I ever wanted for only $25.00 a pop from Elmer Balcaen's junkyard on the south Greeley Highway in Cheyenne. Now, I wish that I had paid some attention to what my Dad was trying to tell me back then. ~VB

lakeside #29
08-10-2009, 05:06 PM
Buzz, I'm guilty too. I gutted an absolutely perfect '31 chevy 3-window coupe body I got from Clarence. I paid him 50 bucks. It would've made a great street rod. I helped gut a few '54-'56 Fords that became figure 8 cars. A buddy of mine took a perfect driveable '54 Ford short top business coupe and cut it up for the 8. If we only knew then, huh.

Chris Ertler-professor coupe