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YOU ARE THE MAN

 

You guys are on your own for the weekend. My boss must still think I'm a malinger because I got sick after R&R because I'm the "Duty Officer" for the entire weekend. Well someone has to man the "Red Phone" in case the "Balloon goes up" but can't do any surfing for Vettes in the "dark space" LOL.

 

I liked the sound of your last outing much better. Wink Wink.

 

Yes for sure.

 

How cool is that !

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I had a Man-A-Fre on my first 61 vette back in 1966. Even with the 30-30 cam it was too much. I took it off and loaned it to a guy I knew. Met up with him years later and asked where it was?? He said he left it in his Mothers house when he moved out. She throw it out in the trash. When I built my 395 engine I wanted to do the 4-2 set up again, but I learned that the intake ports on the manifold were so much smaller than the Brodix ports. It looked funny to see the manifold sitting on the head and seeing the intake port on the head exposed most of the way. WTF, A single 4 BBL manifold is good for 50 more HP.

 

FOUND THIS ONE ON THE DRAG CARS IN MOTION THREAD

 

FOUND THIS ONE ON THE JUNIOR STOCK THREAD

 

Still one of my favorite wheels!

 

Well finally got a few hours of free time it's been very busy around here with the events in Europe having a knock on effect on all stations.

Hanley & Allen F/G Corvette Gasser



Larry Koop D/MP



Phil Parker's B/Modified Production '59 lifts the wheels at the NHRA U.S. Nationals. This Texas-based flyer ran a small-block Chevy and five-speed transmission and was sponsored by Shioleno and Coleman.





Terry Sherrill's beautiful A/Modified Production '57 Corvette leaves the line at Pomona. Sherrill's big-block powered 'Vette has clean paint and graphics, lightweight alloy wheels and eight-second timeslips




This B/ Modified Production '59 sports a Formula 5000 hoodscoop to ram cold air to its twin-Holley-carbed big-block.The 1135 number on the side glass indicates that the car hails from the NHRA's Northeast Division 1.



This late 50's photo taken at Amelia Earhart Field, Hialeah (South Florida), Florida, features a B/Gas '32 Ford Victoria sedan getting ready to run Don Gist's 1959, 290 hp, 283 Corvette.



unknown blown vette



Unknown drag racing Vette



that's all for today the HAMB is acting up when trying to post photos.

 

"Keep the faith baby" C/A vette dragging something hanging down the strip.



"ILLEGITIMATE" B/A & B/G vette

 

Not Blown Tunnel Rammed

 

Curses messed up again. That is what I get for not looking too close and just using the original captions LOL.

 

We knew that you weren't paying attention.

 

LOL "distractions" the ones that are with you now are the best.

 

Injected B/Altered Vette



"Kirby" Corvette this time BB/ALT (see vette gassers for it in gas class)

 

does this count as a hot rod?

just need to find magnesium wheels for the front.
planning on this for induction

although, checking out a wieand drag star 6x2 today

 

Looks like one to me

 

How about this one dicing with a ferrari at sebring?

 

PBRmeASAP your car certainly has the look of a hotrod to me.

Loudbang cool pic at Sebring. I looked up the results and found the Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa 61 was eventually disqualified for illegal refueling. Two of the drivers were Innes Ireland and Sterling Moss which is pretty cool as well. The 62 Corvette was owned by Grady Davis and was driven by Don Yenko and Ed Lowther. It finished second in class behind the exact mate to this car also owned by Grady Davis and ran the #2. The #2 car was the car I was fortunate to sit in after it was originally restored by Mike Ernst back in the 80s.

Whenever I see one of these old Corvette warriors they give me a sense of pride. We all know the Ferrari is just flat out cool but for the Corvettes to dice it out with them shows the Vette is not too shabby either.

 

Great fill in the history Jim. For sure it was always fun to see them messing with the big bucks Ferraris.

 

Flashback D/Altered Vette (and yes I know It was in the altereds thread but I re-post them because not everybody follows both threads)






Jim Head early injected Vette D/A

 

Really nice.

jp

 

SOME PICS I FOUND CRUISING THE WEB TODAY. THEY ARE PROBABLY ALREADY ON HERE