Quit laughing,I didn't say hysterical I said historical. After seeing so many intakes on the stovebolt intakes thread you have to wonder what they were being ran in. So if you have some evidence that they were actually being used, post them up. Frank Iacono's 12 port fuel injected dragster. and Frank Iacono's 33 ford ,another 12 port l Les Suter's wayne built dirt tracker with a tattersfield 2 pot. Lloyd Walinder Oakley Kansas dirt traker
Man they liked the fuel injection back in the day.I'm not sure who's car this is.It looks perfect to me.
A "Stovebolt" is one with a slot for a screwdriver. Chev sixes used them to hold the pan and sidecover on, ergo the name.
this is the car that set the mold for me.It's from Sioux City Iowa and was known as the pizza man.I watched it run as a kid and have loved the sixes ever since.It must have ran well enough to find itself at Pamona. listed as from Edmonton 70's Baldwin brothers Spokane The Wild Wasp,Greatfalls Montana 66,67 A view shared by many flatheads in the day.
Somebody who knows Ganahl personally should call him and have him post some recent pics of the Iacono dragster. About as historical as it gets. Great thread xderelict!!!
cool pix man, that first one of the old strip in sioux city finaly shows that iowa's not completly flat haha
...and this is the Spalding brothers car. engine is based on a hi-torque 235 truck engine overbored to 248, with an early Wayne head. the snarky comment i made on the stovebolts really does not apply to anything with a Wayne 12 port!
the Ferguson streamliner this vehicle clipped off 294 mph in 2004 and again on August 12, 2007, 300.943mph
The photo is from Pamona,that last word falls to the side of the photo for some reason.Thats a long way from home and from the looks of it,he was about to eat another Fords lunch.
haha, go figure, it does look very much like just north of sioux city though. ill have to go find that sioux city drag strip post and figure out were it used to be
The earlier version of Dickie Flippens' car had a Stovebolt with a wayne 12 port on it. It ruled the land until he decided to convert the car into a rear engine hemi hauler. Then it just....well, ruled again!
The pic. of Earl Britt's Vette on a drag strip,i think is in Cal winter nat's. Dick, Earl was not from Sioux City ,Iowa, HE ran The Pizza Place in Sioux Fall's So.Dak. His wife had a twin to Earl's only hers was stock. Earl was part of our car club,we used his Pizza Place for our meetings. If that pic. was from 1964 ,he replaced the ( stove bolt ) with an overhead cam Pon. Hove
Welcome to the HAMB, you crossed paths with my dad then if you are from that area. Orange 56 named"TIMID" and Yellow F85 "Compulsion"
I ran a 64 F.I. Vett. and 51 Henry J at the old Sioux City Air port drag strip, and i never seen any palm trees. Hove
Cool, what color Vette? I bet we have pics of you. Dad started at Sioux City in 64, MN Dragways then Thunder Valley when it opened.
there are several versions. as mentioned earlier in this post many say it was because of the bolts used on the engine. when i was a kid my dad and several older restoration nuts told me that the moniker came from the fact that the chevrolet brothers used the commonly available stove bolt in the assembly of their cars. it started as a slang term and the factory adopted it even as they were eliminating the use of stove bolts. it was a refrence to chevrolets in general, not just to a particular engine. at least that is the story i choose to believe until more factual evidence is brought to life. just my 2 cents worth.
to me the spalding bros car is one of the great all time hot rods. ran both lakes and circle track. was built in a few weeks. great workmanship. built in the late 40,s
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