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Kamis, 22 Mei 2014

Trans Am racing.. I'd forgotten the icons that were making the cars competitive

Sam Posey's Challenger engine was built by Keith Black

Dan Gurney's Barracuda were built by Phil Remmington

Sabtu, 17 Mei 2014

Whoops, caught cheating at taxes... in order to fund a racing team

Once known as ‘the king of drag racing,’ Evan Knoll—former Torco Racing Fuels owner—pleaded guilty in a $100 million fraud.

He was sentenced at age 52 to 14 years in jail.

Knoll’s legal problems stemmed from allegedly misusing the 18.3-cents-per-gallon tax levied on fuel to help fund road construction.

But when the fuel isn’t used for regular road-going vehicles, such as dragsters, you can apply for a refund. According to prosecutors, Knoll got about $87 million in refunds, but the claims he made were reportedly fictitious.

found on http://www.autoweek.com/article/20140428/MOTORSPORTS/140429886?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign= and the
April 14 print edition of Autoweek magazine

The most notorious one race wonders

Bill Balough's "Batmobile"

The big DIRT race at Syracuse every Fall had become almost the Daytona 500 of dirt modified racing. Each year, the best of the New York, New Jersey, Vermont, and Pennsylvania dirt mod scene would convene at the New York State fairgrounds in Syracuse for a huge race on the mile track.

Around 1980, Gary Balough and Greg Weld showed up at the event with the damnedest – looking rig ever seen – a Lincoln Continental roof over the most high-tech car that would ever grace the dirt mile in central New York.

Modifieds couldn't use sprint-car like top wings for downforce, so Weld and Balough put the flat Lincoln roof from a 60's continental on their car and angled it forward exactly like a wing.

Its wide flat roof was canted to be a huge, controllable wing for the wide-bodied car. There were wind tunnels along both sides, the entry slats to which could be controlled by Balough while at speed.

Even the wheels were different. Weld, who had connections within the Indy car world, had installed Indy car knock-offs on the car, in contrast to everyone elses’ regular lug nuts. The driver sat in a contained compartment, with a curved cowl similar to a sprint car. By the time the race was lining up to begin, it was clear to all in attendance that Balough would win – the only question was either by how much or, if not, what broke on the car to stop him.

From what I have gathered, he was lapping the field of the best dirt modified racing had to offer before halfway. Nothing failed, and Balough was a big winner. I guess the pair of Weld and Balough were told never to show up at another DIRT race with the thing. It survived a strange chain of events thereafter and ended up on display at museums such as the Saratoga Automobile Museum.
http://www.catamountstadium.com/63rd_column_3troublesomecars.htm

More to come, definitely one of Smokey's cars... I just have to figure out if it's going to be the Chevelle or the Camaro, or the Mustang

Kamis, 15 Mei 2014

1977 Mint 400

Found on http://themint400.com/media/photos/1977-mint-400/

Selasa, 13 Mei 2014

Bruce McLaren vs Jack Brabham

Found on Facebook, I can't recall who's page

Senin, 12 Mei 2014

AMX racing posters

Found on https://automotivehistorian.wordpress.com/2014/04/13/1968-amx-racing-posters/

Kamis, 08 Mei 2014

racing improves the cars... and sometimes changes them in small ways to be more competitive than other race cars

Denise McCluggage is now writing in the Hagerty Magazine, and her column is called "Racing Past"

Wow, what a cool and spot on title...

Anyway, this months issue has her article and she was telling about the "LeMans Start" and its affect on race cars, and things that affected the LeMans start...

I was intrigued by the notion of Porsche switching from right side of the steering wheel to left side to allow drivers a momentary improvement in the time it takes to start the car when jumping in, as their right hand would go for the shifter or steering wheel... moving the ignition switch to the left gets one thing away from the already over utilized right hand.

The Le Mans Start was doomed when the cars became much more difficult to jump into, as Jackie Ickx was aware of when he took his time strolling across the track to his GT 40... which didn't have windows large enough to jump into, and were all hard tops, and had the top of the door interlock as 25% of the roof.. if you are familiar with a GT40 door, you know what I mean, the top of the door is horizontal, not vertical.

Hagerty.com

Rabu, 07 Mei 2014

Skip the first minute 26 seconds. .... 1959 Apache that autocrosses

Full gallery at http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-editor-of-classic-chevy-runs-this.html

What the video interview doens't mention, is that the owner is the Assoc. editor of a Classic Truck Magazine http://www.classictrucks.com/staff/wes_drelleshak/ . I met him at a couple San Diego and So Cal autocross and SCCA events