Another gem from the Cobbs archive, thanks for posting this Ryan. I didn’t check the whole list of results but one name caught my eye right away. M. Dees, I assume that would be Mark Dees, lawyer, hot rodder, Bonneville racer and Harry Miller historian whipped his ‘54 Merc sedan around the course in 1:00:77.
What an interesting turn of events from what we've come to expect from Tom Cobbs. Thanks for the history lesson @ Ryan. As an aside, in the mid sixties, my oldest brother went off to college in an odd looking little Singer car. I'm not sure if it was a Gazelle or a Hunter.
Mr. Cobbs was present at more than a few important events. I stumbled across a Brian Lohnes video a few days ago about the history of nitromethane. It seems he was the first loser in a nitro vs gasoline 'organized' race against Vic Edelbrock. Vic had run across some discussion about nitro use and bought some from the Dooling brothers (of tether cars fame) that were mixing it into the fuel they sold. He spent some time experimenting and found that 20% added to gasoline gave a substantial increase in power without grenading the flathead. He somehow promoted a match race against Tom's blown flathead and handily beat him with only carburetors. One run only, and Vic packed up and left before anyone could figure what the 'funny' smell was...
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