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General Discussion \ Old Az Dually guy new here.Old Az Dually guy new here.
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kayjohn
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Hey from Kingman Arizona.
Automotive painter by trade. Been painting and restoring bikes, trucks, cars and everything automotive for over thirty years. (That doesn't make you good just makes you old.) At age 52 and being diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease back in 2001 I still manage to pull in a trophy now and then for customer's builds.
My first Dually was a 1990 Chevy I customized for a customer to tow his 1955 Chevy show truck that I did. I ended up taking both trucks to shows more then he did and ended up buying the Dually in 1993 with 14,000 miles on it. For the next 13 years I used it for picking up, delivering customer jobs and towing my own cars and bikes to shows. I'd still have it today but back in 2006 while dropping off a customer's 56 Ford truck at the upholstry shop I saw a 1999 Factory short bed crew cab Chevy their. Having driven my 90 for 120,000 miles it had its normal road rash and the Candy stripes on the hood were starting to fade plus our two kids had out grown the back seat. I thought it time to upgrade. The 99 was already lowered,a set of Brentz 19s with new tires. Paint was good. Int was real clean and had a kick ass sound system with TV screens in the head rests. The selling point for the wife was intertainment and room for the kids. the selling point for me was 10 years newer, more power, OD trans, the wheels, sound system and the look with the short bed. I tend to keep my vehicles a long time. I still have my first car, my first chopper and even my first wife.
I like hotrods, boats, trucks, choppers and drag racing. I like things that go slow and things that go fast. I've driven a dragster over 160 and even got a ride in a Chevy dually jet truck at over 200 but my pasion is restoring and preserving the history of Denver's Choppers built by the late Denver Mullins in San Bernardino Ca.back in the 80s.
My 90 at the John Force Holiday car show in 2005.
The 99 at work.
Automotive painter by trade. Been painting and restoring bikes, trucks, cars and everything automotive for over thirty years. (That doesn't make you good just makes you old.) At age 52 and being diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease back in 2001 I still manage to pull in a trophy now and then for customer's builds.
My first Dually was a 1990 Chevy I customized for a customer to tow his 1955 Chevy show truck that I did. I ended up taking both trucks to shows more then he did and ended up buying the Dually in 1993 with 14,000 miles on it. For the next 13 years I used it for picking up, delivering customer jobs and towing my own cars and bikes to shows. I'd still have it today but back in 2006 while dropping off a customer's 56 Ford truck at the upholstry shop I saw a 1999 Factory short bed crew cab Chevy their. Having driven my 90 for 120,000 miles it had its normal road rash and the Candy stripes on the hood were starting to fade plus our two kids had out grown the back seat. I thought it time to upgrade. The 99 was already lowered,a set of Brentz 19s with new tires. Paint was good. Int was real clean and had a kick ass sound system with TV screens in the head rests. The selling point for the wife was intertainment and room for the kids. the selling point for me was 10 years newer, more power, OD trans, the wheels, sound system and the look with the short bed. I tend to keep my vehicles a long time. I still have my first car, my first chopper and even my first wife.
I like hotrods, boats, trucks, choppers and drag racing. I like things that go slow and things that go fast. I've driven a dragster over 160 and even got a ride in a Chevy dually jet truck at over 200 but my pasion is restoring and preserving the history of Denver's Choppers built by the late Denver Mullins in San Bernardino Ca.back in the 80s.
My 90 at the John Force Holiday car show in 2005.
The 99 at work.
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Hey Kingman Az,
Welcome to the site. I am not a huge fan of short bed duallys but this one sure looks great. I like the color.
The pic of the dually with all the choppers on the trailer is awesome! Thanks for posting. Enjoy the site.
Welcome to the site. I am not a huge fan of short bed duallys but this one sure looks great. I like the color.
The pic of the dually with all the choppers on the trailer is awesome! Thanks for posting. Enjoy the site.
surfrat1960
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Hey Kingman
Welcome to the site from No. Utah, sweet story and an even sweeter ride bro!!
Welcome to the site from No. Utah, sweet story and an even sweeter ride bro!!
comegetsome
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Nice trucks and collections of bikes.....do you still drag race? And if so what do you race
kayjohn
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Thanks for the warm welcome guys.
I wish I was. starting to jones pretty bad. My Doctor wouldn't sign off on my NHRA license so I sold the car to a good friend of mine and I was able to dive it for a few more years at our local Air and Auto show and our Street Drags.
I can race. as long as it's slower than a 10.90 but with the roller coaster ride I get with my meds I'd rather not take the chance. Things can still happen quickly at 120. I like to tune as much as drive anyway I put my son on our shortest Denver's with the Bigest engine. We're having a blast.
The Altered. 96 Frameworks Funny car chassis. the engine I ran before I sold it was a 700 HP 452 BB Chrysler running B-1 heads and intake. My best run was a 8.30 at 161 mph.
When I sold the car to Earl ( a Chevy guy ) we put a 500 HP 502 with a cam and carb. change. It would only run in the 8.80s 140s but it would run that all day/ all year and never have to pull a valve cover and do it on pump gas.
Kingman Street Drags 2008.
Shelby at the KSD 2011 on our KZ1000 Denver's
I wish I was. starting to jones pretty bad. My Doctor wouldn't sign off on my NHRA license so I sold the car to a good friend of mine and I was able to dive it for a few more years at our local Air and Auto show and our Street Drags.
I can race. as long as it's slower than a 10.90 but with the roller coaster ride I get with my meds I'd rather not take the chance. Things can still happen quickly at 120. I like to tune as much as drive anyway I put my son on our shortest Denver's with the Bigest engine. We're having a blast.
The Altered. 96 Frameworks Funny car chassis. the engine I ran before I sold it was a 700 HP 452 BB Chrysler running B-1 heads and intake. My best run was a 8.30 at 161 mph.
When I sold the car to Earl ( a Chevy guy ) we put a 500 HP 502 with a cam and carb. change. It would only run in the 8.80s 140s but it would run that all day/ all year and never have to pull a valve cover and do it on pump gas.
Kingman Street Drags 2008.
Shelby at the KSD 2011 on our KZ1000 Denver's
comegetsome
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Nice pics...bet that bike is fun being that long.....i just sold my bike a few months ago to fund my dually.....i was running a 2003 Hayabusa with a Velocity Racing stage 2 turbo kit....it was a nice little street bike....dyno'd at 292 on meth....and was only stretched 6 inches so it made it real fun and a challenge...pulled off my turbo and sold bike....my other race toy is my dads car.....a 72 tube chassis Nova he bought a few years back....he run one pass in it said it made him lightheaded and has never run it again so im the only driver....its geared for 1/8th mile bracket racing....run consistant 5.9xs
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