The 34 Coupe

[kkondis]

To Scott Carmody, my father, Ray Burness, built and raced the 1934 coupe you now own. He built it, ran it naturally aspirated and fantastic, and sorrowfully crashed into Alec Owen's beautiful yellow 34 at Heathcote. He also strenghtened the chassis with John Taverna and sold the car rolling, ready to drop an engine into. I don't understand why the article insinuates that you had something to do with the vehicles inception though maybe you saw him racing and admired the car? A lot of the drag racing community know the car very well and will recognise it as it looks almost exactly the same. I'm sure if they read this article they will be just as confused about its content as i am, but maybe not as annoyed. Kelly

[techman]

I agree with you kelly as l was at jtc working part time when the work was done on your dads car and l cant remember Scott having anything to do with it .Its a nice car pity your Dad dint keep it

[34rdst]

I agree with you Kelly I was at heathcote the day your dad had the smash and used to go see John when he was building your dads car.It was good no one got hurt badly.I almost bought Alexs car when he decided to get out of drag racing due to work comments but was to late Walford bought it for his son now racing new 40coupe. Why do these people bullshit about building cars they look stupid liers always get caught out.Shane owned the the for a long time that is the only thing he got right.

[yogi351]

The car is basically the same as when Ray last raced it, only changes are the side engine covers removed, the grill is now black(was originally chrome), the shifter (originally had a pro stick with a redback spider gear knob),the numbers '1934' have been removed off the doors, and its had exhausts put down the length of the running boards. The car even ran a 406 chev all those years ago, running a best of 10.01@133mph, not the times presented in the story.The car competed in both modified, where it made the semi finals at the 92 nationals, and super gas.
The car didnt hurt an engine at heathcote, it was done at Calder through the finish line,where it threw a rod after an over rev, oiling the slicks and spinning into the grass in lane one, and rested just near the wall. The incident at Heatchcote happened when the car lost traction, crossed the centre line and t-boned the '34 of Alec Owen.
The chassis was repaired, with the wheelbase being extended and extra bars put in for a blown chev which was to be installed, but never was. The car was then sold, i had heard it went to S.A, but then saw it at a Calder street meet one friday night, which bought the memories flooding back.
It's a shame that people take credit for cars they never had anything to do with, but even more so with a car that had so many followers and admirers....