Made you look didnt i??? After the GMC thread finally cooled off i just felt the builders and the builder forum needed a little boost..................... Dont forget ALL the HAMBers are invited to my place for the first ever Indy Hamb-a-spam a- rama, Friday night of Indianapolis Goodguys. The next night is the cookout at Culberson Customs right down the street . Both events will be a blast rain or shine. Free dinner each evening , good food from spam to bar-b-que and all the Moon Pies you can eat. Just so i dont get slammed too bad i attached a picture of one of our flatheads. ( Wallys Motor) Cant seem to get it in the record book at Bonneville maybe build another HA/GR car ???
Oh Boy! I can already taste the moon pie and the smell of victory after beating all the 900 cu in GMC's.
Mr Mac, 900 cubes.........now your talking. Lets see, that would take 3, 302 Jimmy's. Then could I run 6, 6 inch tires? Ron
By the way, is anyone building a twin engine HA/GR? It might not launch well but it would be a killer on the big end. Look cool as all hell too. Do any of you guys remember the "Bustle Bomb" from the 50's? Best I remember it was the first car to run 150 in the 1/4 mile. I think it would kick all our ****s pretty easy. Then Bubba and I would have to donate both our engines to a single ch***is. Ron
Yeah 2 Flatheads are cool, and that picture is ugly, but what I find interesting is the crude early roll cage. So does this make cages traditional?
Ive been around drag racing since 1953. And ive seen every type of roll bar there is or was. Ive seen them made out of oil well drill tube, water pipe, muffler tubing. you name it. some were well above the head, some were down by the shoulder.( Old saying) If ya roll over, Just duck down..Never and I mean never would any track let these things go down the strip now days..The HAMB cars are just suppost to LOOK LIKE they did around the 50s but with somewhat the safty of things today. Can't wait to get mine finished...
Correct rejoinder for "old saying"; "If you're rolled over you'll be ducking UP." Sorry Thingy, just couldn't resist that one. Your point's "dead on" ('nother auld saying) as many of those contraptions failed painfully when put to the "acid test" (yet another, help me .....). You could make money betting on ours to be functional first, cl***ic second. Hell yeah, of course there were some impromptu "cages" built then. No standards to speak of (and the engineering was often suspect to say the least) but some of the '50s racers did give it some effort. So, cages as traditional? I guess you'd have to say technically yes. Maybe only if the design couldn't possibly hold up? ps. His tubes appear to be 4", and still bow in the middle a tad. Perhaps that's what gives a modi*** of suspension to it.
ThingyM, I was really just refering to the fact that it was in a cage configuration, not the materials. I fully realize that no tech would ever p*** a cage made of such material today. But if a cage were constucted of proper tubing in an earlier style wouldn't that be in the spirit of the early cars?
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