About Finks Quality Used Cars
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The most noted '71 hemi'cuda in competition, however, went to a noted Zanesville, Ohio Super Stock racer named Carroll Fink, who ran a car resale with his brother Gale.
Fink had won the 1970 Super Stock Nationals and a number of NHRA event titles in an 'uncompetitive' 1967 RO-package car in SS/DA. In early 1971, a 340 'cuda convertible that had been wrecked was totaled out under warranty and then turned over noted Detroit area car builder Tom Tignanelli under factory direction for rebuilding into a '71 Hemi'cuda droptop specifically for racing. It debuted for the 1972 season, and Fink would go on to record a fair number of final round appearances that year, including a victory at Sanair, Quebec at a new race called the Le Grand National, which had been added to the NHRA schedule in 1971.
Here is Carroll Fink and the 1971 Hemi'cuda he took to a number of race wins in the 1970s, including the NHRA GrandNationals in Canada. He still owns the car today, and has it on display in his Ohio car dealership. |
Incidentally, there was at least one 'real' 1971 Hemi'cuda that ended up on the drag strip for more than a time trial; this was a car owned second-hand by Nick Masciarelli, who, like Fink, was from Ohio. After buying the car, he also went with Tignanelli for power, and the car was raced for a handful of seasons before being garage-retired. It also ran classed in SS/EA and once even raced Fink's version heads-up (unsuccessfully) at the 1972 Super Stock Nationals at York US30 Dragway. Fast forward to 2014, in restored pristine condition, the Mascairelli B5 blue 'cuda finally became a winner; it took home $2.4 million dollars at an R-M Auctions event in Arizona to record one of the highest-ever public selling prices for any post-1960 American production car. A similar car at Mecum Auctions in Seattle did a million more than that, hmmering down at $3.5M in June 2014.
