Chuck Hamann's NHRA Indy Nationals class championship trophy (from 1962)?

Chuck Hamann's NHRA Division 5 Competition Eliminator points championship trophy from 1962.

Chuck Hamann's NHRA Competition Eliminator Division 5 points championship trophy from 1963.

Chuck Hamann's WYNEBCO Drag Association jacket (Wyoming, Nebraska, Colorado). Organization predated NHRA West Central Division 5.

Chuck Hamann was on hand with many of his trophies from highly successful racing efforts in the NHRA in the early 60s. Chuck won the WyoNebCo Dragrace Championship in 1961 and won the West Central Division NHRA Competition Division in 1962 and 1963. This was when there were only two Divisions, Competion and Stock. Chuck competed against every class of competition car from AA/FD to Modied Production and everything in between. In 1962 he entered the U.S. Nationals at Indy. Against a 32 car field, Chuck made it to the final run, He had the race covered, but blew high gear and lost. The old Buick powered Roadster still was the fastest car there and won the Autolite Award for National Top Speed Champion. Chuck says he was just a low buck racer with a homebuilt car. There never was much in the speed equipment fieid for Buick straight eights, so he had to build everything from junkyard parts. It took Chuck several years of work and investment to get the car to that state in 1962. He had a total investment of $600.00 in the car and trailer! The car set strip records every place it ran.

Group photo of many of the remaining Platte Valley Customs Club members at the 2010 Julesburg Drag Strip Reunion. Front row: Larry Walters, Butch Walline, Larry Renquist, Kenny Arnold, Don Phelin, Raymond Burgess, Don Fender, Darrell Zimmerman, and Les Copass. Back row: Larry Hansen, Gerald Gerke, Gerald Kalb, Butch Stone, Steve Schwartz, Vaughn Hartwell, Marvin Nelson, Wayne Thelander, Craig Leef.

Group photo of many of the remaining Platte Valley Customs Club members at the 2010 Julesburg Drag Strip Reunion. Front row: Larry Walters, Butch Walline, Larry Renquist, Kenny Arnold, Don Phelin, Raymond Burgess, Don Fender, Darrell Zimmerman, and Les Copass. Back row: Larry Hansen, Gerald Gerke, Gerald Kalb, Butch Stone, Steve Schwartz, Vaughn Hartwell, Marvin Nelson, Wayne Thelander, Craig Leef.

Group photo of many of the remaining Platte Valley Customs Club members at the 2010 Julesburg Drag Strip Reunion. Front row: Larry Walters, Butch Walline, Larry Renquist, Kenny Arnold, Don Phelin, Raymond Burgess, Don Fender, Darrell Zimmerman, and Les Copass. Back row: Larry Hansen, Gerald Gerke, Gerald Kalb, Butch Stone, Steve Schwartz, Vaughn Hartwell, Marvin Nelson, Wayne Thelander, Craig Leef.

Group photo of many of the remaining Platte Valley Customs Club members at the 2010 Julesburg Drag Strip Reunion. Front row: Larry Walters, Butch Walline, Larry Renquist, Kenny Arnold, Don Phelin, Raymond Burgess, Don Fender, Darrell Zimmerman, and Les Copass. Back row: Larry Hansen, Gerald Gerke, Gerald Kalb, Butch Stone, Steve Schwartz, Vaughn Hartwell, Marvin Nelson, Wayne Thelander, Craig Leef.

John Westerbuhr makes these great looking Al-ZIm Speed Shop T-shirts.

Old friends Don Fender and Darrell Zimmerman share a laugh.

Chrysler skunkworks guys at Mopar Underground work with Jack Schuler on Hi-Perf parts for Jeeps.

Jack Schuler's Jeep, ready for action.

Mombo tires and wheels on Jack Schuler's Jeep.

Jack Schuler's big Jeep sees hard action regularly. Here's where a big Colorado boulder left its mark.

Jack Schuler's Jeep.