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1966 427 cobra even though I probably wouldn't fit in it. I would find a way.
I also own a 51 Champion. Turner Brakes makes a disc brake conversion for the 51. If you want to keep the suspension stock, the 51 is a good...
Hi Mike - Go to Racing Studebakers website they have a bunch of guys on there that can help you out.
That little Buick V6 would be a good transplant. You could probably include the Saginaw four speed also. If my memory is right, I think that the...
While running the little four cylinder is cool I think that you will find that it is under powered. My family had a 48 wagon as our only vehicle...
Probably 128 mph in 1969 in my friends 67 Plymouth Belevedere with a 426 Hemi on recap tires. Not our brightest moment. He still had throttle left...
Not much banking on that track.
I think it was about 1952 when my dad took us to the local dirt track. Later on we were visiting relatives in Defiance, Ohio and got go to their...
Hi ChampRod. You might consider joining the Studebaker Drivers Club if you haven't already.That combination you are working on sounds interesting....
I like the coke bottle idea. I used to trap a lot of mice where I worked prior to retiring. I always tied the traps off with light string....
My Dad swapped a 232 stude v8 into our 48 jeep station wagon when I was a kid. Then when I came of driving age the 232 was replaced with a 259 v8...
Uhh, wouldn't you think that the heat from the cast iron would pre-heat any air before it reached the valves?
Another word on the rambler V8. There was a fellow that built a 327 rambler here in the early sixties, that showed it's rear bumper to a number of...
Hi Mike - A friend of mine put a front clip on his 58 Hawk using a mid-80"s GM frame from a Monte Carlo. It worked out real well. You can also...
Hi Joe - I saw your car at the SDC meet in Springfield in 2011. I was very impressed with the car and your workmanship.
I remember seeing a Cosworth/Ford four cylinder in a midget in the late eighties that would run circles around the four cylinder chevys. I don't...
Cost?
I found the stude crank to sbc conversion info over on the racingstudebakers.com forum under the thread "billet block".
As a side note, I believe that a popular swap in southern California in the sixties was a reworked stude 289 crank in the small block chevy for a...
Hi Jim - What is the front suspension from ? The car really looks nice.
hi berstmeister - If you are not a member of the Studebaker Drivers Club you might like to join. They will be having their national meet in...
My dad had a 34 ford pickup before I came along. I found another for him in 1991 in El Paso, Texas that he had restored. My brother and I...
I remember that those tornado sixes were popular in racing in Argentina. Kaiser had a presence there. I guess that they figured out the potential...
Try Cathcart's Studebaker, he specializes in the 170 six. He stocks Offy twin carb manifolds, aluminum heads, cams , headers etc. The website is...
I am very curious as to which Willys engine was used in the Popplewell Willys. Was it the F-head six?
I went to my first race when I was four years old(now 61). They were racing flathead coupes. I remember two of them touching wheels and one went...
When I was young and stupid I was working on a 58 Dodge, wiring the muffler back in place. It was supported by a bumper jack only. The neighbor...
I drove a 66 Carryall/Suburban for close to twenty years. We put a rear sway bar on it right after it was bought and it made a huge difference in...
Van - I remember Donnie Beyers trying out that sprint car on El Paseo street one afternoon. He must have passed me going close to a hundred mph...
I am curious if anyone remembers a Ford powered sprint car out of the San Diego area in the late sixties nicknamed the Flying Ford. It used a 427...
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