1970 Chevrolet
Chevelle SS 454 Red Alert
"Bob
Hamilton purchased new by a Ford AFX racer. This
Chevelle was given to his wife as a Valentines
Day. This big block Chevy spent its
Sundays at the local drag strip with Hamilton as the driver. Sponsored by
AMT and dubbed “Chevelle Red Alert”, it
began its long and extremely successful career in 1971, setting the SS/DA
national record during the 1972 season and owning the track record at New
Jersey’s Island Dragway for over two years.
Hamilton sold
“Chevelle
Red Alert”
in 1976 to racer
Terry Carney who, in 1990, partnered with Bill & Jan S. to reintroduce
the car to a new generation of fans and a new career in popular nostalgia
drag racing. The car has since run the quarter mile in the low tens at over
130 MPH."
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1970 Chevrolet
Chevelle SS 454 Red Alert
1970 Chevrolet
Chevelle SS 454 Red Alert
For for the most part of its forty years this
1970 Chevrolet Chevelle SS 454
LS6
Red Alert
has been doing precisely what it was built to do: destroy up
the drag strip. A good length of the way it has become certainly the most
legendary drag racing
Red Alert
Chevelle ever, capturing the SS/DA
class record in 1972 and setting an elapsed time of 10:75 at 123 mph on the
way to winning Top Eliminator 14 of 16 events at Bradenton Drag way in
Florida in 1976. By then the
Red Alert
Chevelle had been immortalized in an
AMT 1:25 scale models that became the corporation’s all-time best selling
kit.