Welcome to our series, Car of the Week, where we feature BTE customers and fans, and the cars (and trucks) they love to drive and race. Today’s spotlight is on Skip Tubbs of Wheeling, Illinois and his ’56 Chevy Bel Air; a car so well-cared for it’s even been featured in a Craftsman commercial!
How did you get into drag racing?
Everything about my involvement in racing comes back to my Dad (Red), he was my biggest influence and we were a father and son racing team. It was his racing back in the early to mid 60s that got me started. Right around 1962-63 my dad took me to my first drag race with him and some friends that were racing at Great Lakes Dragaway in Union Grove, Wisconsin. My first car at 14 years old was a 1940 Willys, although that car never saw the track.
