[NeighborsComplaint]

You YouTube denizens may have seen this but I thought it was pretty cool how radical this car was. I owned a '72 Demon 340 for a number of years so it was of special interest to me.

https://youtu.be/bP4gi4jr9oU

[JSchmitz]

Great story! Thanks!

[Dennis H.]

I just watched all 4 episodes of the Herb Mcandless story, and it was very interesting. He reminded me alot of Arnie, and how good a driver that he was.

[nikrnic]

What a great watch. That 72 Demon was a marvel of engineering back then and still is.

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[72projectbird]

Very cool! I always likes the Sox & Martin cars. Those Mopars were some of the coolest cars to go down the strip. My favorite was their 71 Cuda.

[jhein]

Very cool. That must have been a blast.

[sdbob]

Thanks. I watched once before. Racer ingenuity,working within the 'rules'.You gotta give them credit. Guy that owned arco station across the street had a 65 Plymouth, aluminum, hemi race car. Broke engine twice,took out crank and bearings.Then built Dart ultra stock then Barracuda Pro Stock car.Locally I use to be made fun of by the mopar guys about my Pontiacs,'they dont run' they would say. So I'm not partial to them. Chrysler did support racing.

[TAKerry]

Cool video. Theres a great article about Sox and Martin in the latest issue of Crankshaft. Goes into depth about them developing the 4 link rear.

[poncho-mike]

Herb McCandless built my old ex-IHRA 1968 Firebird drag car.

The original owner converted his Firebird into a drag car in 1969, and was part of a three car team that ran IHRA events. The race team broke up in the mid-1970s and the owner went on to manage the Fayetteville dragstrip. The Firebird was used for a wheely exhibition car for several years, then was mothballed. It was later sold in the mid-1990s to a local guy I knew. It went back up for sale a couple of years later, and I put a friend of mine on it. The car was running a heavily modified 400 with Ram IV heads, a vintage dual quad intake, a M-22, and a Dana rear end. My friend bought it and converted it from Pontiac power to a 502 Chebby. Around 2000, my friend needed to sell and I bought it. As I watched the car change hands several times, I never met the original owner.

I never did anything with the car, and about five years ago I put it up for sale on PY and the local Craigslist. I got an email from a guy who claimed his father was involved with the race team and knew the car.
He said he had some old pictures of my car when it was built and raced. The car's original owner and Herb were good friends, and Herb's shop was only about 50 miles away from Raleigh.

[poncho-mike]

Here is a photo.

[Stuart]

Originally Posted by Dennis H.

I just watched all 4 episodes of the Herb Mcandless story, and it was very interesting. He reminded me alot of Arnie, and how good a driver that he was.

They are well worth watching, I recommend them. Here's episode 1, from there you should be able to find the other three episodes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwiZKEJK4O8