Sure looks like a GMC or Chevy six to me. LB, just because it only has four pipes don't assume it is a four cylinder as a lot of early engines had paired exhaust ports. Look at the first photo and count the spark plugs--there are four visible ahead of the magneto and one more showing at the very back of the engine as well as one that must be behind the top of the mag. Roo
Here is a V8 Ford with 16 exhaust pipes. 1943. And a GMC has 5 small soft plugs. Chevy has 2 larger. So it's narrowed down to a Jimmy
Tell you what folks I get whining when I post photos with no captions and then whining when I post captions VERBATIM from the site I got them from. So in the future captions will be TRUNCATED with only non disputable information remaining. I don't want any whining "well gee that's not what the original caption says"
Nobody is "whining", but rather they (myself included) are just trying to keep the facts straight so that some of the inaccurate information is not perpetuated. Roo
LB, I enjoy your posts, as many others do. That being said, nobody is whining. Sometimes information is incorrect and it gets corrected, that's all it is. I correct some guys when they have incorrect information that I know is wrong because I have worked on the cars in question. Sometimes the written word is misunderstood because of punctuation or lack of tone but none of that appears to be here in this instance. I appreciate your posts and I appreciate the person who makes the correction. Its just sharing information. I have to look up TRUNCATED before I comment on that.
I don't know. It just looks like a GMC six to me. I would have thought it looked like a GMC six to you. That is not whining. Whining is when you whine about someone correcting an obviously mislabeled photo.
Here are a few, most of which I hope are new to the thread. This is a new one to me--Don Poynter's Dallas Express. Prior to this car Poynter was partnered with Johnny Boyd with Tinker Faulkner driving a car called Banzai. The Dallas Express name had a longer life with Poynter as he was running a top alcohol dragster with that name in the late 80's with various drivers after giving up the seat himself. The Jackson brothers' High Heaven out of Lakewood, CO. Cal drove and Les tuned A couple of shots of Bob Hankins' Blue Blazer that was initially driven by Keith Drum. The second shot is obviously a lot more recent judging by the helmet and roll bar but the rest of the car looks pretty true to the original configuration. And a pair of Don Green's Rat Trap. Chuck Burch, Bill Carter, Dan Collins and Dan Geiger all had a turn of the wheel at some time along with George "Stone Age Man" Hutchesson who was evidently the first to get the car to go from A to B on a regular basis. And finally Julius Hughes Jr's Zot ll at Indy. This gas burning car was followed by a Woody Gilmore dragster that initially used this 327 Chevy (on fuel) and then a 392. Julius Hughes lll is currently running Zot Vl in nostalgia top fuel Roo
Yep! Revell had that one.... You can still find those kits on eBay from the last release.... 2013????
Pure Hell Drag Racing Bantam Roadster. Rich Guasco's built this Austin Bantam-bodied roadster with a blown small block Chevrolet engine.
So what was that car (the Orange Crate)...a "race car"...a "show car" or a show car that occasionally made it to the track ? While I also had a model of it as a kid, the real car never made it to any SoCal tracks that I know of. And the 2/3's shot of Pure Hell above is Irwindale Raceway in its heyday. Mike
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