Getting McGurk’s Mail

My Dad passed away a few years ago, and I’m still digging through all of his automotive archives and ‘treasures’, if you will. I just found this McGurk Engineering SBC catalog and performance book he ordered in 1963 that’s still in remarkable shape. Looking at the materials and the date I know exactly why dad ordered this- He had procured a nearly-new 327 Corvette rolling chassis in 1962 and dropped his ’56 Vette body on it. After a year of dragstrip dominance in the Street Eliminator class at SEMO, the Max Wedge Hemis began to show up and eat his lunch. Pops was hoping that Frank McGurk would offer something more radical to take his 327 to the next level, but it was a losing battle against mighty Chrysler B’s…