The work is complete, as the 1977 Damn Yankee is ready for the track.

 

Car Name: Damn Yankee
Team Owner: Brent Murray
Team Driver : Brent Murray, Married to Flo Murray, daughter Lyssa Murray
Team location: Nanaimo B.C.
Car: 77 Mustang 2 built by Frame Up Engineering in 1977
Engine: 526 cu in TFX Hemi,14-71 BDS, Hays 3 disc clutch, 3 speed B&J trans, Mag 44
Chassis: Frame Up engineering, updated by Jejuene Engineering
Crew: Ken (Smurf) Murphy, Wendy Murphy, Dan Tooke, Mike Lee, Tammy Clapp
Crew chief: Doug Murray
Sponsors: Extreme Fiberglass Nanaimo B.C. and Terminal Autobody Parksville B.C., Van Isle Barge services Ltd.
Performance bests: 6.74 @ 200 MPH
History of the team: 2010 will be our first year of racing with the 77 Mustang body after 6 years of racing with our "Untamed Racing" 48 Fiat Topolino.
Drag Racing general history: 1987-90 driver of my injected alcohol and then blown alcohol hydro, 1991 Frank Hawley's TAFC school ,1992 driver of Thriller 3 blown alcohol funny car, 1994-2001 injected alcohol and then blown alcohol 23T altered, 2002 -09 blown alcohol Mob style Fiat Topolino.
Career highlights in funny car and other classes: Winning the last Blown Alky race of 2008 in my parents blown alcohol dragster , and then winning the first Blown Alky race of 2009 in my Blown Fiat Topolino.
Current racing plans: To win a race in the funnycar and dragster in the same year.
Any racing future goals: To win the lottery and burn NITRO
Favorite racing moment : Running a 5.67 @ 252 mph on a license pass in Hugh Ridley's Top Alcohol Dragster.
Heros of the sport: John Force and Pat Austin. Both can drive a funnycar down a dirt road.
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Terminal Autobody has taken on the task of repainting the Yankee back to it's original colors and paint scheme and Extreme Fiberglass will be doing the stretch and fiberglass re and re.

A bit of the history is here. Taken from 70's funnycar.com

"The Damn Yankee Mustang II body was found several years ago residing, as pictured, in the back of a used car lot in western Canada. Exact history of the car is near impossible to trace, but it is know, due to engraving on the tin work, that the body and tin was done by Frame Up engineering in 75. Car migrated to Canada in the early 90s as a BB/FC... body and chassis were soon separated with the chassis still today racing as an altered and the body unceremoniously ending up on top of a restaurant. It was rescued from that fate and the used car lot fate by Glenn Collins. Body was recently sold and shipped off to an Oregon chassis shop to have chassis put underneath it... then off to Calif for some nostalgia racing! (Photo and info courtesy of Glenn Collins)

Car as it appeared when it arrived in Canada... before the body and chassis were separated!

Update, courtesy of Paul Weiss, 12/00: "Talking to the late Bob Simmons (Purple Magic Vega, New Englander Monza) he told me he ran a nitro funny car named the Damn Yankee. Being from Connecticut and Frame Up Engineering being from Connecticut might be a connection. I would be surprised if Bob owned the car new. Being good friends with Al Hanna... maybe one his old car".