The Jalopy Journal
Here's a similar alternator setup. It's a kit. I've used Gilmer belt pinion drive for differential/transaxle fluid cooling pumps. [IMG]
When eyes' retinas contract to accommodate brighter lights, it also reduces the eye's ability to "see" dimmer, less brightly lit objects. Newer...
Chevrolet SBC was built 1954-2003. Been looking for a definitive total production number.
Either the shifter handle needs adjusting or somebody's got one screwed up wrist. [IMG] [IMG]
cheap-n-dirty wrote: "In 1979 Bob Joehnck built the first Buick V-6's that made any serious power. 350 hp on gas, 200 mph at Bonniville in a...
Buick/Rover aluminum V8 engine is the small-block Chevrolet engine of England/Europe. Lots of speed parts available there. Jeremy Clarkson likes...
Front end looks like a mashup of Bugeye Sprite and 1963 Buick Riviera [IMG] Rear end looks like 1960-64 Corvair Cut up like this is what would...
This MUST be built. Too many things right about the concept. Proportions, aerodynamics, NACA duct side scoops, ducted lay-down radiator GT40...
My daily driver has Mobil 1 10W-30 since its first oil change at 1,000 miles. That was 28 years and 415,000 miles ago and the engine has yet to be...
Tonight it's Texas Red Dirt Country [MEDIA] [MEDIA] And some Charlie Robison "Desperate Times" [MEDIA]
Why cover the most attractive feature?
Mebbe the scoop from a 2002-2005 Thunderbird complete with recessed front section [IMG]
According to Texas Monthly article about Pig Stands that restaurant was formerly an original Pig Stand that closed, the building was bought by a...
Lumpy's work. Over my garage workbench [IMG]
Drive-in restaurants were invented in 1921 in Dallas when Kirby's Pig Stand opened on the old Dallas-Fort Worth Highway. Eventually there were...
Pedro Rodriguez was the finest driver in the rain there ever was. Ayrton Senna was good but Pedro Rodriguez was better. A lot better. Someone said...
So you were there for The Flood! Here's Delmo Johnson in 1965 - his Grand Sport led the first lap ahead of Pedro Rodriguez's Ferrari and Richie...
A short video of 1963 Nassau road race. Several Mecom Racing Team cars and drivers including Grand Sport Corvettes. The "Unknown Man" talking to...
Here's George Wintersteen's factory upgraded Grand Sport, chassis 002. One of two re-built specifically to compete with Carroll Shelby's 427 Cobra...
noboD, got to work on Grand Sports 003, 004, 005 and either 001 or 002. The latter car was at Lee Miller's shop Performance Incorporated on North...
Fender flares met tech requirements. We copied the flares on Delmo Johnson's Grand Sport Corvette when we built the "factory racer" Vetta Ventura...
[IMG] Kaspar, this was Jim Hall's car. It was originally Mecom Zerex Blue before Hall repainted it white. I worked on it when John Mecom first...
1962 was the year this then-teenager got started. One of the first races as crew/mechanic was Green Valley Raceway in Smithville TX. Found a pic...
Perfect! (was Lakeland Raceway in TN or FL? lol)
(Short anecdote... When I left for college in 1967 there was a complete manifold, rat-trap WCFB carburetors, fuel lines and linkage sitting under...
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