A List of Race Cars that have been Built by

Warren Wayne “Jelly” Wilhelm

Performance Engineering

Wichita, Kansas

Delivered	Ordered by	Type of Car	Jelly’s Car #	Jelly’s Drivers	1^st Owner*	1^st Car #*	1^st Driver*	NotEs
1959	Jelly Wilhelm	AHRA  A / Competition coupe	154 A / C	Tom Hanna	Danny?  “from Kansas City”			301 Chevy was replaced by 352-cubic-inch Chevy after the first year.  Body was a 1932 Bantam coupe that had been manufactured in the U.S. by the English Austin Co.  Tom Hanna moved to California after the first year & was replaced as driver by Jerry Livingston who built & owned the 352 Chevy engine with 6 carburetors on a Weiand Drag Star manifold, 4 of which were Stromberg 48mm while two were Stromberg 97mm. United Motor Exchange This car was found on a creek bank north of Wichita by Jim Roberts who is now in the process of restoring it.
1961	Jelly Wilhelm & Neal Stong	SCCA  C / Modified Sports car	6	Bill Moore	Bill Moore	6	Bill Moore	Devin-bodied Corvette special with a 301-cubic-inch Chevy engine & 3 Rochester 4-barrel carburetors Sports car through 1967 when was sold to Richard Sherod & converted to a drag car Put in storage in 1967 until sold to Kevin Leslie in 1988 In 2016, the car is owned by Donald Nardo from Colorado
1962	Squire Boone Zane	MARA & JRA 90” Super-modified	99	Harold Leep, Sr. Roy Bryant Grady Wade Dale Reed	Bob Murra		Bob Murra	“Stagecoach” – Jelly’s house car – Hilborn Injected Chevy V-8 Murra owned this car for a short time before Jelly bought it back from him. This car raced as #7 for a while before being returned to #99. Although disassembled, Jelly continued to own this car until his estate was auctioned on August 4, 2017 & Bill Johnson purchased the car.
c1963	Vic Kline & Jelly Wilhelm	Kurtis-Kraft copy Midget	99	Rick England		48		This is one of 4 or 5 midgets that Jelly Wilhelm & Vic Kline started building together.  Rick England helped Jelly complete this Offy-powered midget and it was driven for the 1^st time by England on a test outing at 81 Speedway the night before Jelly passed away. It was never raced in competition & was still owned by Jelly at the time of his passing.  His estate sold the car to someone in Ohio who painted the car gold with white lettering, #48 & named the car the “Tiott Offy”.
c1963	Vic Kline & Jelly Wilhelm	Kurtis-Kraft copy Midget	99		Rick England	99	Rick England	This is one of 4 or 5 midgets that Jelly Wilhelm & Vic Kline started building together.  Although Jelly had worked on this 4-cylinder Chevy-II-powered midget, Rick England completed it after Jelly’s passing. It was never raced in competition.
c1963	Vic Kline & Jelly Wilhelm	Kurtis-Kraft copy Midget						This is one of 4 or 5 midgets that Jelly Wilhelm & Vic Kline started building together. This midget consisted of little more than frame rails and is believed to have been sold at Jelly’s estate sale.
1964	Ed Schauf	100” Super-modified	99	Ed Schauf	Walt McWhorter	99	Roy Bryant	This car was a copy of the “Stagecoach” & friends called it “Stagecoach” as well Ed Schauf was seriously injured in this car in a race at WaKeeney, KS in 1966. Bob Murra drove this car with a small engine in it.
1965	Pius Selenke	CAE copy 86” sprint			Pius Selenke	43	Harold Leep, Sr.	Parker Oil – Grady Wade, Dale Reed, Jerry Everhart, Lloyd Beckham, Davey Ross, Jon Backlund & Jerry Stone also drove this car.  This car has had a number of different paint schemes over the years. Selenke sold it to Dick Bloom who raced it as #44.  It has been restored to its original look, has the #43 on it and is owned by the Parker Oil Co. collection again in 2016.
c1966	Jack Walker & Jelly Wilhelm	Modified jalopy	99	Bill Bookout				Jelly owned the Chevy engine while Jack Walker & Jelly built the rest of the car together.
1967	Jelly Wilhelm	100” Super-modified	999	Harold Leep, Sr.	Myron Rust & Buddy Crumley	999	Myron Rust	Jelly said, “I made more (money) from this car than from any other car I ever built.” This Chevy is a sister car to the #77 car & another, as of now, unknown car. This car is said to have flexed a lot making it very difficult to drive. Buddy Crumley purchased Rust’s share of the car in 1972 & renumbered it #333. Crumley’s white #333 was driven by Jerry Everhart & Larry Dewell. Crumley sold the car to Harold Avant who, with his brother, Harold, renumbered it #63 in 1973.  The Avant brothers’ drivers included I. L. Smith, Paul Reck, Johnny Stinnett & Ken Sweet, Sr.  The car was then sold to someone who raced it as a 6-cylinder modified in Oklahoma City.
1967	Jerry Livingston	100” Super-modified			Jerry Livingston	77	Bill Nelson	This channel-frame Chevy is a sister car to the #999 car & another, as of now, unknown car. United Motor Exchange This car has been driven by Dick Walker & was driven by Jerry Everhart in 1971.  Livingston sold this car to Tommy Leach & it was driven as #44 by Freddy Street in 1972.  Leach sold this car to Jimmy Stafford who sold it to Lanny Edwards who sold it to Karl Piehl.  Piehl owned & drove this car as #22 in 1975 & 1976.  Dwane Wolf owns the car in 2016.
1967		100” Super-modified						Sister car to the #77 & #999 cars.  This car went to someone in Oklahoma
1967	George Hibbs	100” Super-modified			George Hibbs	69	Bud Haehn	Zephyr Transfer Bill Rigsby was driving this car when it was destroyed in an accident in the feature race at the Kansas State Fairgrounds in Hutchinson, Kansas on September 18, 1968.  What remained of the car was sold off in pieces.
c1968	Aaron Madden	100” Super-modified			Aaron Madden	2	Aaron Madden	Harold Leep, Sr. won the 1973 NCRA championship & 2 point championships at Oklahoma City while driving this car. Car sold to Bud Carson & Scott Carson raced it as a black #10. Sold to Jeff Sikes who raced it as #99 before he was killed in June of 1975 while driving another car. Aaron Madden bought this car back & raced it until a crash at Tulsa, OK in the spring of 1976 ended his racing career.
1968	Evart Isaac	100” Super-modified			Evart Isaac	8	Herb Copeland	Frame & body ordered from Edmonds Jelly finished assembling for Isaac, adding motor-mounts, nerf-bars, etc. Copeland won 6 of the 8 super-modified feature races at the Kansas State Fairgrounds in Hutchinson in 1969 in this car, including the Hutchinson Nationals that year.
1968	Evart Isaac	100” Super-modified			Evart Isaac	6	Dale Reed	Frame & body ordered from Edmonds Jelly finished assembling for Isaac, adding motor-mounts, nerf-bars, etc. Dale Reed won the Hutchinson Nationals driving this car in 1970 & again in 1975.
1969	George Hibbs	100” NCRA Super-modified			George Hibbs	69	Bill Rigsby	This was the first space frame car that Jelly ever built – Zephyr Transfer Jerry Stone, Jim Harkness, Roy Bryant & Jerry Everhart also drove this car while owned by George Hibbs. The car sold to Dr. Jim Hill who raced it as a #35 junior modified, to Bill Tuttweiler as #66, to Frank Headley, who raced it as a blue & white super-modified #6, to D.J. Rhode, to Trammel Rushing, to Paul Martens, to Sam Saeger, who owns it in 2016.
1970	Dick Bloom	Don Brown copy 86” sprint			Dick Bloom		Dick Bloom	This car was a copy of a car that was built by Don Brown & owned by Keith Barker
1970	Bill Flagler	100” NCRA Super-modified			Bill Flagler	54	Davey Ross	#54 & #154 sponsored by Bill’s Speed Shop, Dodge City Les Steinert bought it & painted it a red #11 for H. A. Ratzlaft to drive. Steinert then painted the car a black #11 with Jim Harkness as its driver. Jon Johnson bought the car & raced as the #86 “Blue Flame special”.
1971	Larry Prather	100” NCRA Super-modified			Larry Prather	97	Jim Harkness	Jim Harkness drove this car 1^st as a white #97 & then as a black #97. Frank Lies purchased this car from Larry Prather in the summer of 1972.  Lies had the car painted tan & raced it as #56. Lies drove the car until 1978.when he sold it to Ray Riner for his son, Rick Rinner, to drive as #97. Riick Riner destroyed the car in a crash the third night that he drove it in 1978.
1971	Bob Billups	100” NCRA Super-modified			Bob Billups	112	Jerry Everhart	This was a coil-over car. Forrest Coleman, Larry Dewell, Arnold Horner, Mike Peters & Ron Beutler also drove this car. Melvin Beutler owned this car at one point.
c1971	Jerry Livingston	100” NCRA Super-modified			Jerry Livingston	77	Walt McWhorter	United Motor Exchange Tube-frame car – Lonnie Snowden also drove this car Sebie Davis purchased this car in 1976 & drove it as #17.
1972	“Speedy Bill” Smith	86” Sprint			“Speedy Bill” Smith	4x	Lloyd Beckman	Speedway Motors – Ed Leavitt also drove this car Whereabouts of car unknown
1972	R. D. “Biz” Bisping	Roger Beck copy 86” sprint			R. D. “Biz” Bisping	00	Lloyd Beckman	“Biz” Bisping sold this car to Dick Morris who let Doug Wolfgang drive it the first race of the season at Knoxville, IA in 1975.  That was Wolfgang’s first time to race a sprint car.
1972	Jim Harkness	100” NCRA Super-modified			Dan & Jan Lacy	77	Larry Radcliffe	Jelly & Jim Harkness started building this car but did not complete it before it left Jelly’s shop. Dan & Jan Lacy purchased the car from Mrs. Harkness & Radcliffe drove it as a blue #77. This car sold to someone is Colorado Springs, CO who then sold it to Steve Waugh. Car was auctioned in Oklahoma City by then owners Davey Ross, Max Estes & Fred Stewart in 2016 as a black #11 tribute-to-Jim-Harkness car.
1972	Pat Suchy	100” Super-modified			Pat Suchy	33	Grady Wade	The car started out with a spring front, a parallel rear end & it only weighed 1,305 lbs. in that configuration. Jelly claimed this was the only car he ever built with an engine slide saying, “That’s what the customer wanted.” Jerry Everhart, George Armstrong & Benny Taylor also drove this car as #33. Benny Taylor also drove it as #13 before & after Dale Parsons put a new T-top body on this car in 1973. Larry Holman & Harold Leep, Sr. drove this car as #2 in 1975 & Harold Leep, Sr. drove it as #24 in 1976. Alvin Bennett then bought this car & drove it as a 6-cylinder modified.
c1973	Norman Gumm	100” NCRA Junior-modified			Norman Gumm	117	Gene See	Norman Gumm Basement & Foundation – 250 Ford 6-cylinder Purchased by Steven Waller from Gumm in the winter of 1976. Waller raced it in 1977 as a car #0.
1973	Jim Toombs	100” NCRA Junior-modified			Jim Toombs & Larry Hall	2	Jim Toombs	258 Ford 6, sold to Rick Salem who installed a V-8 Chevy. Alan Herbert & Fred Stewart owned it later as a yellow super-modified #97.
1973	Aaron Madden	100” NCRA Super-modified			Larry Madden	1	Aaron Madden	STD space frame spring front stacked torsion rear with swinging shackles Lyndon Moss bought the car late in 1975 & raced it a little before selling it to Dick Sheffield who changed the number to #5, “The Streaker”.
c1974	Todd Coker	100” NCRA Super-modified			Todd Coker	4	Todd Coker	Terry Coker has also driven this car and was the owner in 2016.
1974		100” NCRA Super-modified			Jerry Eggbert	90		The bare frame was originally built by Bob McCutchen for a Junior-modified participant but was never put together as such, nor were any mounts 'tacked' to the frame.  Instead, McCutchen sold the frame to Jerry Egbert who assembled it as a super-modified. Eggbert had Performance Engineering put the running gear on the car.  Eggbert then installed a V-8 engine.  Mike Pogue purchased the car (less engine) from Eggbert & sold it to Paul Martens, who then sold it to Sam Saeger.  The car is painted white & Saeger put the #90 on it.  The car has never been raced.
1974	Billy Brown	100” NCRA Super-modified			Billy Brown	11	Billy Brown	Yellow car with spring front suspension – twin car to the #10 of A. J. Little Billy Brown sold this car to Roland Brunson.  It was a yellow #99 when driven by Johnny Luttrell in 1977 & a red #99 when driven by Johnny Shannon in 1978.  The car was driven by Jimmy Crawford and sold to Lyndon Moss (they driving it as a purple #8) before selling it to Charles Jarvin who drove it as a red #01
1974	A. J. Little	100” NCRA Super-modified			A. J. Little	10	A. J. Little	“The Orange Bandit” – Spring front suspension – twin car to the #11 car of Billy Brown A.J. Little won the championship race at Amarillo, TX in this car in 1976. Ken Sweet, Freddy Street (as #44) & Doug Joyner (as #7) also drove this car. Dwane Wolf owned this car before selling it to Don & Bambi Renfro who own it as of 2016
1974	Jelly Wilhelm	100” NCRA Super-modified	24	Harold Leep, Sr. Jay Woodside Jerry Stone Bobby Marshall Larry Dickson	Steve Bahm	21	Jerry Stone	Jelly’s house car – “Gertrude” – Performance Engineering – 312 Chevy This car was a sister car to Petef Forshee’s #3, Herb Copeland’s #15 & Jelly’s #24 “Gertrude”. Jay Woodside drove this Chevy as #99x in 1979. Numbered 99 so it could be a backup car for the “Missile” Steve Bahm sold this car to Lloyd Stephens for Jerry Stone to drive as the #21 OFIXCO car. Restored by Paul Martens & is owned by Jerry Sullivan in 2016
1974	Herb Copeland	100” NCRA Super-modified			Herb Copeland	15	Herb Copeland	Poor Boys Racing – 312 Chevy This car was a sister car to Terry Uehling’s #27, Pete Forshee’s #3 & Jelly’s #24 “Gertrude”. Mike Pogue owned this car at one point.
1974	Terry Uehling	100” NCRA Super-modified			Terry Uehling	27	Terry Uehling	This car was a sister car to Pete Forshee’s #3, Herb Copeland’s #15 & Jelly’s #24 “Gertrude”. Paul Martens owns this car in 2016.
1974	Pete Forshee	100” NCRA Super-modified			Pete Forshee	3	Jeff Forshee	Forshee’s Masonry – 312 Chevy This is a sister car to Terry Uehling’s #27, Herb Copeland’s #15 & Jelly’s #24 “Gertrude”. Art Bybee raced this car as a red #9 with drivers Darrell Bybee and Markus Jackson Sold to Paul Martens who sold it to Ernie Hudson
1974	“Speedy Bill” Smith	96” USAC Dirt Champ	-	-	“Speedy Bill” Smith	48	Larry Dickson	Speedway Motors – Turbo-Offy – crew chief Carl Cindric There was no engine in this car 1975-1976. #45 in 3 USAC races in 1977 with 377 Chevy power, driver Jerry Stone & Jelly as crew chief.
1974	Clyde & Jerry Douglas	100” NCRA Super-modified			Clyde & Jerry Douglas	43	Jerry Douglas	The Douglases sold this 4-bar car to Bobby Marshal & his father in 1976.  Later owners were Jimmy Allard & Roger Archer.
1974	Leon Boomershine	100” NCRA Super-modified			Leon Boomershine	77	Leon Boomershine	Jay Woodside, Tad Doshier & Bill Bookout also drove this car for Leon Boomershine. James Bell, Sr. bought this super-modified from Boomershine. James Bell, Sr. & Ted Bacon both drove this super-modified as #09 until Ted badly damaged it in a crash with Doug Johnson at the Tulsa Fairgrounds. The car was repaired by Jack Walker & Bacon was able to race it again.
1974	Keith Barker & Jelly Wilhelm	86” sprint			Tom Stasa	2x	Tom Stasa	Tom Corbin also drove this car on occasion while it was still owned by Tom Stasa. Craig Agan sold this car to Mike Pogue who owns it now although nothing remains except the frame & roll cage.
c1974		100” Super-modified						Jelly claimed that he built a 100” super-modified and delivered it to Darrell Dawley’s transmission shop in Sioux Falls, SD but no other record of this car has been located and no one seems to even remember it except Jelly.
1975	Harold Leep, Sr.	100” NCRA Super-modified			Harold Leep, Sr.	2	Harold Leep, Jr.	STD space frame spring front stacked torsion rear with swinging shackles & a Chet Wilson engine Harold Leep, Jr. would occasionally change the car number to #29 if there was another #2 car also entered. Sold to David Grace in 1977 who raced it as #01 with a Richardson engine & Lyndon Moss as driver. The car was sold to Butch Roberts who put a sprint tail on the car and raced it as #36.
c1976	Harry Campbell	86” sprint			Harry Campbell	11	Frank Riddle	Jan Opperman drove this car in his first ever pavement race, (an IMCA race at Golden Gate Speedway at Tampa, FL) & he won it.  Dave Scarborough also drove this car in races in Florida & Ohio.
1977	Jerry Stone	USAC Midget	5	Jerry Stone	Melvin Stone	5	Jerry Stone	196 Wilson Chevy V-4 Jerry Stone & Jelly owned the car as partners while Jerry Wilson owned the engine when they won a 100-lap USAC midget feature victory in the King Dome in Seattle, WA in March of 1977 Stone sold car to either Jim McVey or Gene Gennetten The engine was sold to someone in Arizona who was restoring a midget that had been raced by one of the Unser family of Albuquerque, NM.
1979	Jelly Wilhelm	100” NCRA Super-modified	99	Harold Leep, Sr.	Lonnie Snowden & Jelly Wilhelm	99	Harold Leep, Sr.	Hard feelings between the now deceased early builders of this car have made it difficult to find out just who did what on this car while it was being constructed.  The following is the best that has been ascertained to date:  This car was Jelly’s first attempt at building a rear-engine dragster.  He realized that the wheelbase was too short though, so he converted it into the super-modified that was originally named “The Euclid Missile” for the Wichita street where Lonnie Snowden was residing at the time.  Jelly took possession of the car while it was still under construction & finished the car himself.  As a super-modified, this car started out as a coil-over car but was soon converted to a 4-bar car.  Jelly shortened the name of the car to just “The Missile” & painted it a bright yellow #99.  This car was known as the “short nosed” car when it was being compared with a similar appearing car built by Snowden in 1980.  This car was destroyed in a crash while it was being driven by Harold Leep, Sr. at 81 Speedway late in 1979.
1980	Lonnie Snowden	100” NCRA Super-modified			Lonnie Snowden	99	Harold Leep, Sr.	Hard feelings between the now deceased early builders of this car have made it difficult to find out just who did what on this car while it was being constructed.  The following is the best that has been ascertained to date:  This 4-bar car began as a collaboration between Jelly & Lonnie Snowden but Snowden soon moved the car to his garage & finished building it himself.  The car was painted bright yellow & Harold Leep, Sr. won the 1980 Hutchinson Nationals while driving this car.  Many incorrectly refer to this car as the “The Missile” based primarily on its appearance.  This car was also known as the “long nosed” car when being compared with the similar-appearing “The Missile” built by Jelly in 1979.  Other distinguishing features of this car were the high siderails on each side of the driver’s compartment and the unusual rear wing mounts.  Snowden painted the car black but still #99 & Harold Leep, Sr. continued as driver although Larry McDaniels drove it in a NCRA vs USAC dirt champ car race at 81 Speedway late in 1985.  Snowden repainted the car as a bright yellow #99 again before selling it to Harold Leep, Jr. late in 1985.  Harold Leep, Jr. painted the car cream & purple before painting it yellow again and installing a 6-cylinder engine.  At this point, all that can be said for certain is that the center section from the rear motor plate back to the rear roll bar hoop was from the car that Jelly & Snowden had built.  Harold Leep, Jr. painted the car midnight blue that winter before selling the car to Jerry Mann who had the car painted black again.  By this time, clips had been changed so often that it is difficult to say for certain how much of the remaining car was the original car that Jelly & Snowden had built.  Don Mann raced it in Oklahoma in the late 1980s.  When Jerry Mann gave the car to Tom Barkley, it consisted of nothing but the frame, roll bars and a hood.  Barkley then sold the car to Mike Pogue.  Dwane Wolf obtained the car from Pogue in 2018.
1980	Jon Brook & Curtis Edens	86” sprint			Jon Brook & Curtis Edens	24x	Jerry Stone	Lloyd Stephens purchased the car in 1981 & Jerry Stone drove it a few times for Stephens.  The car now belongs to Barry Grable.
1982	Mark & Lynda Wheeler	100” NCRA Champ Dirt	17J	Davie Moore Dale Reed	Clinton Herring	99	Joe Farley	“Lynda” – Rip Offs – 312 Chevy This car was painted dark blue when Herring sold this car to Paul Martens Martens then sold it to someone in Florida.
c1982	Davie Moore	100” NCRA Champ Dirt			Buddy Mullens	25	Ronnie Classen	Mullens nor Moore ever drove this car.  Moore sold it to Ronnie Classen disassembled. Ronnie Classen had this car put together as a tribute car to Jerry Wilson.
1983	Al Hall	86” Mini-modified			Al Hall	5	Al Hall	Walt McWhorter drove this 2100 cc Volkswagen powered car for car owner Al Hall in 1984.

*After the car had been sold, or delivered, by Jelly or his estate.

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Warren Wayne “Jelly” Wilhelm

Performance Engineering

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