More Pappy Hough stuff on my webpage Www.joeyjet.com Scroll down under Joey Jet on the drop down menu Can’t find it email me joeyjet@bellsouth.net
I knew Pappy well, Quite a guy. we did a driveshaft for my '32 coupe in 1959. He had a trailer in the 1940's that he hauled all 4 PIGS to the races with a Chrysler 4 door. A cop thought is was unsafe and stopped him! Pappy said it would stop better than the police car. The cop took him up on it and they ran down the highway at Fifty MPH with the cop behind Pappy. The cop flashed his lights, the signal for Pappy to apply the brakes and promptly crashed the police car into the trailer punching a hole in the radiator. Pappy drove away! Pappy's single axle 4 midget trailer had a front axle from a big truck with AIR BRAKES!! Typical of Pappy Hough........ BRUCE
bringing a old thread back to life for a bit and help me remember a man who helped teach me mechanics by working as a apprentice , today i still remember his flathead v8 tricks for those of us who remember pappy and the stadium , in april of 2021 paterson began restoring Hinchcliffe stadium with hopes of bringing back it's history hoping for it to be finished this year 2022 https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/video/new-renderings-of-hinchliffe-stadium-plans-in-paterson/ https://www.hinchliffestadium.com/racing this web page talks about pappy and how he helped bring midget racing to it,
we also had a midgets hereo here in New Glouster, Maine, his name was PAPPY [BOB] WOOD, he had a ton of parts and memorabilia... sorry pappy has passed, don't know what happened to his stuff... bet he raced against your pappy...
Pappy was my grandfather. My sister and I were totally blessed to have him and Marion as grandparents. I can remember every Friday night at Pinebrook. It was great to go the old timer's events as well. Got to meet TONs of racing legends. My Avatar picture is his midget he left me when he passed in 96. This picture was taken this past June in my garage. My son and I are currently in the middle of a full restoration. Below is the car as it sits now. We plan to pull the engine in the next week for a rebuild.
Thank you. I sure will. Here's my dining room table with new and restored parts ready for their turn to be put back on. I finally found a use for that table...
Lee, The best part of that photo of parts is that they are on the dining room table!!! I remember going in the back (kitchen) door of Mike Carusso's home one night in New York City, in the late 1940's. He was on home, but out racing who knows where. His wife Rose. however had an OFFY on the kitchen table and was shimming the valve clearance for him so the engine would be ready to go the next day!!! She explained that she used a paper match book front flap under a cam bearing cap to hold the cam from moving as she checked the clearance!! What a WIFE !! Bruce Hertel
My dad used to hang around Gasoline Alley when he was a teenager in the late '50's. When he got his model A in 62 he had Pappy split the wishbones and do some other fab work on it. When he pulled the banger Pappy hooked him up with a hot flathead out of a dirt car since they were changing to chevys by then. I still have dad's car with some of Pappy's work intact. My friend's father was a few years younger and recalled having an odd vibration in his vette he couldn't pin down. He took Pappy for a ride and he immediately told him he had a cracked flywheel. Sure enough he pulled it apart and found the crack between the bolt holes. Both his dad and mine remembered seeing small block chevy blocks cut every which way laying outside. Come to find out Pappy came up with his own Chevy V6 for a certain class he was running. All these guys are gone now, but I figured I'd share some of what I know to keep the flame alive.
Hi again. We are still working on the old 81. Living in FL, I took the winter off for some very needed yard work... We are currently working on putting the engine together but recently ran into a snag. The gentleman I purchased rod bearings from shipped me bearings for a 1940 V8 60. I'm looking for 37-39 rod bearing set .020 oversized. Anyone happen to have any? Thanks! More pictures to come soon. Lee
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