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Postby h-bot » Sun Aug 20, 2000 8:58 am

From: miragezx1_REMOVE_907109_THIS_@yahoo.com


Does anyone have any pictures, details, info , etc, on the Dekon Monzas? The last one I seen was at Road Atlanta. It was a kick seeing the monza walk over Porsches during the Historic races.


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Postby h-bot » Sun Aug 20, 2000 1:41 pm

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YES!!! Go to...
Monza GT Registry

<a href=http://www.geocities.com/monzaman_gt target=new>http://www.geocities.com/monzaman_gt</a>


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Postby h-bot » Mon Aug 21, 2000 6:34 am

From: mylesgt_REMOVE_449408_THIS_@yahoo.com


I've some pics I took in the pits @ Road
Atlanta('98) of Jim Malone's #24 Dekon(the Dekon itself is
plated@#234 if i remember right). Unfortunately no pix of it
racing, as ran out of film snappin up everything else.
Must have been dazed from all the exotic machinery and
fumes. : )
Anyone interested???

And yup, it
was definitely fun watchin a monza kick butt...while
talkin with Malone it seems that was all he was talkin
bout.

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Postby h-bot » Mon Aug 21, 2000 1:23 pm

From: monzaman_gt_REMOVE_522202_THIS_@yahoo.com


YES!! I'm always interested in racing hbodies. Was the monza blue with red/white, solid red, or white/orange/yellow/blue? I know of three that are currently vintage racing.
Joe, monza gt registry.


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Postby h-bot » Mon Aug 21, 2000 6:18 pm

From: mylesgt_REMOVE_860749_THIS_@yahoo.com


Alrighty Joe, i can either send em to you
personally, or if Karl doesn't mind, upload em here. IMHO,
although this is a mirage club, mirage's were inspired by
the business-only Dekon racers. I'd just need a
couple of days to set up the scanner and shrink em down
to a manageable size.

Jim Malone's Dekon
was(this was '98) a simple base red w/ upper gold/bottom
black striping running length of body up to whale tail.
Body style is very similar but mildly tweaked for
these puppies.I haven't seen it on your site in this
color scheme BTW, but it is apparently one of the
'original' Dekons. I vaguely remember Malone mentioning he
had just bought this a few years back, and was one of
three(?) full-on racers left. 'Dekon Engineering Ltd' dash
plate lists 'IMSA GT Champions 1976'. Unfortunately,
chassis # on plate is fuzzy. He had priced its worth at a
little over a million$(!!!)...not sure if he was serious
or just messin with another monza owner. ;
)

Too bad the rest of us mere mortals can't all afford
to have that much fun. : )


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Postby h-bot » Tue Aug 22, 2000 10:28 am

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Hi Myles!!! post them in the pics section...its totally cool!! Iam sure the members here would like to take a look :) Karl :)


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Postby h-bot » Tue Aug 22, 2000 4:09 pm

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Hi Myles,
This club is for sharing, so it
would be great to post them in the club's gallery so
all can enjoy them.
That color scheme appears to
be Jerry Jolly's car, although the chassis number
would be a great help.
A million dollars?? no, not
quite. Al holberts two monza's would probably fetch
500K, and they won championships!! . 100K - 200K would
be realistic for the car you saw. Not all dekons had
a dash/chassis plaque, so that is an ultra rare
siting you had!!
Can't wait to see the
pics!
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Postby h-bot » Tue Aug 22, 2000 5:26 pm

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Hey Joe, you seem like the right guy to ask this. What other championships did Al Holbert win in his Dekons besides the Camel GT series in '76?

Ken


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Postby h-bot » Wed Aug 23, 2000 12:20 am

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Al Holbert won the 1976 and 1977 IMSA AAGT
championships in a dekon monza. Allan Moffat won the 1976 and
1977 Australian GT championships in another dekon
monza. These are the only roadracing championships won
in a monza. Don Pruhdome won two NHRA funnycar
titles in a monza-like funnycar, Warren Johnson won a
prostock title in a starfire in 1982(?), and I believe
grumpy jenkins won a title(1976?) in a prostock monza.
My dragracing memory is a little fuzzy, sorry for
any wrong info, but I definately know my
roadracing!!!
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Postby h-bot » Wed Aug 23, 2000 1:24 am

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Joe, thank you very much! I only wish I had known
more of these facts when writing Car Craft a few weeks
ago in a rebuttal to something they wrote derogatory
about the Hbody. The only "fact" that I knew for sure
was Al Holbert's win in '76, but I thought he won on
'77 too but didn't know for sure and didn't want to
print incorrect info... oh well. I just wanted to know
for future reference. Thank you again.

Ken


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Postby h-bot » Sat Aug 26, 2000 8:07 am

From: miragezx1_REMOVE_639289_THIS_@yahoo.com


I will soon be receiving a poster showing a Dekon
monza racing (however it is running in third place). If
anyone is interested in something like this, let me know
and I will send you the guys address as soon as I get
my poster through the mail and determine if the
quality is acceptable.


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Postby h-bot » Sat Aug 26, 2000 10:47 am

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Count me in on that poster Bob. I'd love to add it to my "Hbody Museum" at home.... *smile*

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Postby h-bot » Sat Aug 26, 2000 4:16 pm

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Yes, count me in as well!
Joe, monzaman_gt


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Postby h-bot » Mon Aug 28, 2000 2:10 am

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Count me in to!!!!!


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Postby h-bot » Mon Aug 28, 2000 7:32 pm

From: miragezx1_REMOVE_222750_THIS_@yahoo.com


The posters can be bought from
rbishop@stny.rr.com
they are $15.50 plus shipping.
The poster has two
Dekon Monzas but you have to look fairly hard to see
the No. 1 Dekon.
If your interested check it out.


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