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HOPKINS ONE, do you ,or anyone else reading here ,have the e-mail or the phone number to get hold of the guy who runs the photo archives at IMS??...
Guys , here are some of mine and the excerpts from the George Riley book. Every model, sizing and jetting is in that book. The rack and pinions...
Thanks so much, No it is definitely not the Pankratz malloy , it just has that same jacking system in Rooties photo .It is also not the Henry and...
Rootie, hamb n egger, thanks for the hairpin question. I guess I am trying to get to the truth rather than the answer that might serve me the...
HAMB N EGGER, it is a tube frame with a hairpin front end.Tubular front axle with International spindles, Left hand (or inside of track )drag link...
Gentlemen, does anybody have any recollections of a Bob Pankratz Sprint Car?? I am reasonably confident that it was #98 with red numbers and I am...
Big mike b , deucemac ,Rootie and Mac Miller, thank you all so much in solving the Hank Henry history as it being the pink and purple Chuckie...
Hotroddon is 100% correct about the Bugatti steering. Bugatti had what is called "true centre point steering" That is a line through the king pin...
Thanks Mac , Patrick has rung Gary Rush and Bob Blacklaw this morning, he is all over it like a fat kid on a cup cake !! Cheers Greg
Rootie, thanks so much for your research,it gives us something to work on. Our racing groups are set up on dates down here and we dont need the...
Gentlemen, can I ask for some help? I am trying to help a friend authenticate a car down here which purports to be a sister car to the Fike...
Many thanks Gents , I am on it !! Cheers Greg
And seven years later here is Dee graduated from the dirt to the bricks. He passed his rookie test but crashed in qualifying or testing. I believe...
Well Rootie , if the other one is Dee Jones ,you can see how the attitude got me from something as small as an avatar. Peas in a pod ,or same...
Hey Rootie, is your new avatar maybe Dee Jones?? It just looks like a picture I have in my mind of his on track attitude. If so could you post up...
Josh ,I am sure Zakiras will have these drawings, but here is M.Bugatti's solution to the air pump, driven by an eccentric from the rear of the...
Re the Packard specials and Josh's pictures: Was anyone else stuck by the lift on those cams? I work on a lot of top end twenties race stuff and...
Just a long shot!! A sprint car run by Flloyd Demmitt with Roy Prosser as the driver, and a number of midgets run by him also. Could anybody on...
For Blackie Suede, Carrol, if you still need long drive pins there are some on e-XXX at the moment under "Halibrand" $30 for quite a few. Cheers Greg
Whilst we are posting things hoping for recognition, does anybody have any knowledge of this drop box on a V8 housing? It obviously pre dates the...
SIDEWAYS27, just a question on the George Shilala book. Is the document you saw specific to Midgets or does it carry information on Kurtis...
Hi from Down Under, I dont know what mag you are using on your project , but this is how we put in a mechanical "retard to start" on our Offy with...
"designs that work" , that was me . The other one down here has a later replacement axle. The Number on the axle was explained to me by Van from...
Good Morning , its another day down here, just over the longest hot spell for 155 years!! After yesterdays revelation on the cross spring front...
Thanks Rootie, was it a pre-requisite for USAC events to have certain components Magnafluxed?? Two of my Indy cars have Magnaflux decals ,and some...
Gentlemen, today I removed the front axle from the Shilala. It is either cad plated ,or has a gold type finish similar to Dow #7 that you see...
If you read the "knock-off" correctly, it says "52" ,not "32", although 32's were available for Amilcars and early Ferraris wheras most MG's and...
Josh, any chance of some update pictures of the progress on the Miller?? Detail shots are always fantastic, dry sump tank soldering work, steering...
Thanks once again for all your help. The car I have is the Flloyd Demmitt Shilala-Chev Probably only driven by Roy Prosser for Flloyd and probably...
Thanks guys , all questions answered except the date for the first 8" rims. As usual ,the collective of members and interested parties on here are...
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