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What is the reason for the engine to sit at this angle? Was it does weight transfer?


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No probably to get the correct driveshaft angle.

 

OR when raising the engine for weight transfer the trans sits higher in the cockpit so to keep some room and trans tunnel small they tilted the engine. I don't think that driveshaft angle is very good. Most raised the car higher. Could be anybody's guess.

Pat

 

WOW!

Pat

 

Headers, dumps, moon tank, mags, AND a Blower what's not to like.

 

Well for starters I have a problem with the fact that I don’t own it! Lol


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Glasses Gasser

 

I took this photo fifteen years ago at a street show in Oswego, Illinos.
I believe I posted this here about three years ago.

 

Well known car at Thunder Valley. Rapps own the track.

 

Did you stutter a bit there uncleandy? Same photos two days in a row.

Roo

 

Yes, I'm getting senile in my old age. I guess I really liked that one. Thanks for the proof reading. Bill

 

Nice to see this one in living color (it appeared here in B & W on page 67 and here is a better version of that shot)

Bruce Reed was the mechanic while Jim Sermersheim drove the Evansville, IN based car. Bruce eventually dropped out of racing to spend more time with his family and started to build a street rod but he pased away at 78 in 2012.
Sermersheim had a business building fiberglass reproduction parts for Corvettes but he passed away in 2013. The business still exists in Evansville and also trades as Lee Bumb Composites.

Roo

 

Neat picture, great history lesson. thanks for posting.

 

Big Batch

 

Is this the 57 from rodders journal years ago?


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Sorry it was just on a photo site

 

Yea Yea it's an altered this day

 

Corvette Auto Parts. Crazy spoiler

 

This one is an altered as well--no lights or front brakes. Well, actually it looks more like a show car as I don't remember many race cars (especially altereds) running the factory side pipes.

Roo

 

Another altered (BB/A to be exact). Don Kirby's car that his brother Bud drove at times. John Garrison built a stroked, blown 427 Chevy for the car and talked Pat Foster into driving it. In Foster's own words "The car was horrid, short, high, rectangular tube frame, straight front axle, much like the 'Gassers' of the day. I loved Garrison and agreed to drive it when they got the new engine in it. It was a genuine 'Kill yer' self kit' as Olin would say! I made about five attempts to get her down through there with very scary results. I told Kirby, no more, that's it."

Roo