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Part 2
Norm Weekly puts the Frantic 4 A/FD out
in front to stay as he captures the #1 Fuel Ranking from Chicago
invader, Chris Karamesines at Pomona in 1963.
Looks
like Tommy Ivo is out on Norm Weekly at this 1963 match race
at Ramona Raceway.
Some things never change.
As it is now, it was then and the manufactures always used their
"stars" in their ads. These could be seen in every
thing from Drag News to Hot Rod Magazine.
Same as above.
Same as above.
Jocko's Porting Service
used a great word play in this ad.
Like the manufactures,
the local drag strips also featured the cars that were "hot".
Promo
for an upcoming race at Pacific Raceway in Kent, WA - 1963
Wheels
cocked, tires blazing -- Norm Weekly makes a classic "Lions
Leave" in 1963.
Rare
color shot of the Frantic 4 at Lions in 1963.
Norm Weekly takes a leisurely
ride thought the pits at Bakersfield in 1963.
From the pages of Popular Hot Rodding,
another incredible overhead shot from Fontana in 1964.
A
rare shot of this particular Weekly-Rivero-Fox-Holding car with
"zoomie" headers. This is Pacific Raceway in 1964.
Sponsor
"Thank You" ads were also common in the 1960's.
"Used
Car Lot" - Yea, right! This was taken at Airline Auto Sales
in 1963 when the team hooked up with Jack Flatley who owned Orange
County Metal Processing (OCMP). No clue what the Frantic 4, the
OCMP and Airline Auto dragsters were doing on the lot but you
can bet they weren't the daily specials.
"For just $50 down
and $25 a month you can drive this beauty home today."
This is obviously a promo
photo for the OCMP car. As Dennis Holding tells it... "In
late 1963 and early 1964 we operated the OCMP car on a deal in
which Fox and Holding maintained the engine for a fee with Norman
driving for a percentage of the winnings Jack Flatley who owned
the company liked the deal because Madden and Yates had blown
up a lot of stuff and we cost him very little. When he tired
of racing we returned everything to him and concentrated on getting
the Edmison chassis ready for the 64 tour back east. This car
was then sold to Val LaPorte in Florida and untimately ended
up in the water at the end of Lakeland Dragway."
Great
head-on shot of Norm Weekly in the OCMP AA/FD.
Norm
Weekly in the OCMP car at Lions in 1963. This was a beautiful
cars by anybody's standards and it really flew once the Frantic
4 took it over.
Here's
a few candid shots of the OCMP car taken in 1963 and obviously
not at the races. 
Norm Weekly launches the OCMP AA/FD at Pomona in
late 1963. Note the front wheels are up but the smoke off the
rear tires isn't as thick as the 1963 shots. The tires were getting
a little better and some of the guys were finally figuring out
how to work the clutches.
Another shot of the Frantic 4 running the OCMP
car at Pomona in late 1963. A little more smoke in this shot.
In a period of one week
the Frantic 4 captured the #1 1320 Drag News spot with the orange
car at Pomona and the #8 with the OCMP car at Ramona.
OCMP Special - Frantic 4 in control.
Great shot of the starting line at Ramona in 1963.
Castle Rock, June
21 1964 Rocky Mountain News -- "The team of Weekly. Rivero,
Fox, and Holding of Pomona, Calif. set a Colorado drag race speed
record Sunday at Continental Divide Raceways. The Pomona crew
set a mark of 185.56 miles per hour with an 8.26 ET, bettering
the previous record of 182.78 mph. The Weekly, Rivero, Fox, and
Holding team also beat Denver's Nick Colbert in a special two
out of three match races. Colbert also broke the old mark with
a speed of 183.28 mph. Both cars were powered by Chrysler engines."
News
clip from Pete Garamonne
This is by far the latest shot in the book and
it had Ron Rivero in the seat. It's take at Riverside in 1966.
As Dennis Holding tells it: "This was Woody's (Gilmore)
first "built from the ground up" car in the spring
of 1964. Fox and Holding fitted it with the streamlined M/R body
but never raced it in competition. In 1965, Holding toured this
car with George Van and then Ron Goodsell as the driver. Late
in 1965, Ron Rivero got out of the Army and began his full-time
driving career. This "Woody" car set top speed at the
Riverside HRM meet and lost in the finals to Tom McEwen in a
VERY controversial starting line red-light. It then toured the
East that year as the "K&G Frantic Fueler". The
photo history of this car and it's successor are another album
in the Rivero family library."
Second
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