Art & Inspiration WILD PIPES...cool and crazy headers picture thread

This picture just makes me smile!

 

The biggest damn megaphone I’ve ever seen.


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posted by Mick Coyne here:https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/1938-41-willys-build-shots.1136556/page-14

 

Hello,

From the late 50s, the team of Cirino, Groves and Durfee had been a terror in the Modified Roadster ranks. They were usually found at the San Gabriel Dragstrip and other So Cal venues during the early days. The basic style/build of the roadster fit the rules of a Modified Roadster. 25% set back of the motor being the primary difference between street roadsters and modified ones. The other was the exhaust. Boy, did Cirino, Groves and Durfee have some wild exhaust pipes on their original modified roadster!!!

Durfee Automotive A/R campaigned by Cirino and Groves NICK CIRINO AND FRANK GROVES

“If you hung out at San Gabriel in the early '60s, you knew this roadster, Cirino & Groves, sponsored by Durfee Motors. It started in primer with an injected Olds, when they went to the blower, they just built a manifold and mounted the port injectors on top...no chrome or paint until they ran one of the early Smoker's meets, then they shelled out for chrome and paint. Still v-belt drive, probably by Tom Beatty. I saw this car on the Ridge Route on the way back from Bakersfield, and didn't recognize it with paint until I stopped and realized it was the old Durfee Motors car.” @296ardun

The modified roadster was introduced to my brother and me at the 1960 Bakersfield Smokers March Meet.
1960
The wild headers were trimmed to equal length each and the sound was still wild and powerful.

Jnaki
Durfee Automotive 1960 Bakersfield
1960
1961 shorty pipes
1965

 

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What's the the green car to the right?

 

I know this thread is about headers, but that trailer leaves a lot to be desired. With that said, it must have got the job done though.

 

I think it is the wild cutup Corvette Gasser/altered I have posted before in the Corvette Gasser thread.

 

Saving money for the Dragster LOL.

 

Chico Breschini B/Dragster powered by a fuel-injected small block Chevrolet engine.

 

427 Mystery motor

 

posted by 40ragtopdown in the traditional photos thread

 

posted by swi66 in the vintage thread

 

posted by swi66 in the vintage thread