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If you want to see what happened to heads up drag racing like ray-jay said go to a NHRA div or national event & go thru the pit area & look at the...
This is a rediculouis argument. GM had been building & selling OHV engines for decades prior to Ford. After WW2 all the automobile companies in...
In the southern ohio area in the mid 50s anything over 100 was very fast as there were very few all out drag cars. My 1929 whippet with a 303...
Like most questions like this the answer is not about replacement of something but how the whole world we live in will be different.
Frank Lockhart in the end of the 1920s built a race car to set the worldland speed record at Daytona beach & used duplex steering built by Ross....
there are several ways to do this. You can cut the long end of the rack & have it rethreaded & machined to fit the stock tie rod then make a new...
Ive posted on here before about going to Dayton in the early 50s. In the week or two before a race at Dyton they would come thru the towns &...
For some reason it was thought that dragsters shouldnt have long wheelbases in the mid 50s & Scotty Fenn even had a theory that the wheelbase...
It will all come down to the money so dont let all the advice take your eye off that ball. You need to find a lawyer that will fight for you but...
Noe thats a christmas present for all. Thanks from Indiana.
Come on folks there is more than enough strength left in that wheels mounting & picture strength analysys is geting out of hand on the HAMB.
If thats your therapy your soul should be doing fine. Excelent truck.
Built my first race car(a comp coupe 1929 whippet) in high school 1956, Raced at Cleves oh first year track was open(couldent drive to young)...
speeds new hope dragway new hope indiana. 1/8 mile on friday nights.
Finally someone said it. This bashing of something that a lot of folks do to enjoy this hobby & as a business also is just rediculous & shows a...
Class drag racing died many years ago. Wether its fuel, or gas, there is very little intrest in heads up or class drag racing. In the 1970s when...
There are good reasons that popet valves have suvived as the choice for four stroke piston engines. The internal combustion engine relies on how...
We had a mechanic trnsfer from Chicago to San-Francisco & on his last day he sat a snow shovel at the door with an electric cord attached & a...
Mount the trans with a rubber mount. The trans will crack at the bell housing otherwise.
REALITY: You dont know how to weld & you dont know how to shape metal & you dont know anything about metal SO you dont know enough to build a...
First is the welder you are being offered is a dc/ac machine or just a a/c machine because if its ac only you will not be able to weld steel...
Not so sure that many people on the HAMB have seen his art other than the Movie about him. Love his work or not at the american art section at...
Indy
If you had spent thousands of hours working on them sometimes in the middle of the night outside in the rain.... Well yes they did have thier...
I grew up in Middletown Ohio & as a boy spent many hours at "Bobs Body Shop" where every winter they prepared a Hudson to take to the '"BEACH" ....
Of course global warming is real. How niave are you to deny that the large majority of scientists studying this are in agrement that human...
a drop or two of muratic acid drops & and if it turns black imediatly its mag
is it still 1968
thank you Luke
LA was one beautiful city then. I lived there in the early 60s & it was still then. Cities have undergone so many changes since then & LA more...
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