Her's a picture of the valve cover I built around '86 or '87. The valve covers came in a parts car I bought, this is the good valve cover, the other had an oil filler hole hacked in with a sawzall or something. I still have the other cover in a car down in the woods. Now that I can mig aluminum, I need to get it out and fix it up. It's been so long since I looked inside them, Cal Custom?
I'm not. But 62 wagon was, and I have an old one of his, early Hemi. It's at my parents, I'll have to dig it up in it's baby blue on black glory. Jay
Had an early grey motor valve cover racer (finned cast) with external 70s roller skate wheels (bearing) Man it flew!!!!! it went ome with some dude @ a car show for $150.00 saw the cover on his car 2 weeks later.
I have one,made from a Mopar "B" motor valve cover. Looks like a submarine! Have not ran it in about 10 years.
Ok, ill bite. Are they downhill, gravity type racers? Where were they run and when was it popular? More pictures please
Another one here that's unfamiliar with the concept, but am intrigued. Can't help but think a slant six Mopar cover would look weird, but I'd try it anyway. Roger
That looks cool. I too, have never heard of valve cover racing. I will have to look on Youtube and see if I can find any videos. Let's see some more pics.
sold my valve cover racer years ago but i still have a couple of hood ornament racers built for KKOA events. you looking to view old toys or are you looking to get something restarted?
thats awesome man, ive never heard of it till now (20yo) but i am deffinetly interested would love to see more pictures
We are looking starting up a value cover race this summer. Does anyone have information or advice on track building or stories they would like to share.
Yes I know its old but im new here some one has info for this that can help.thanks for your patience all.
My kids are playing on our track as I type this! Its a plywood ramp. Set up for two lanes of racing. What our StickShifts Hot Rod Club did was we all built a couple of racers, brought them here to our Hot Rod Invasion event and we gave one to each kid that showed up. They all raced all weekend long and we gave every kid a prize and let them take the racers home. My wife has hers still that she won top eliminator at Puyallup 20 something years ago, its still fast too! I can get some pics later. And measurements too. -Shiny
There was a New England club that used to bring around a track. I still have the two i made for my sons. 1 bbc and 1sbc. Youngest one did pretty good, was funny seeing a little Peanut racing against old men. He had real good reaction time.
But if he would have made a new thread, someone would have bitched about how he didn't search and it's been posted a million times and would have linked this thread anyway.
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