Ken Gillanders of Temple City CA, drag raced a TR-2 in the sixties and seventies.
He made his own oversized cylinder liners out of high pressure gas pipe and had forged pistons made for it. He smashed out the combustion chambers in the head and had Cyclone Excelsweld create new chambers, into which he installed huge valves sourced from Hercules industrial engines.
It ran a pair of 45 DCOE Webers.
Lining up at Irwindale Drag Strip he staged against a 396 Chevelle. The announcer got the crowd stirred up by asking who thought the funny little foreign car could beat the Chevy.
Of course the crowd cheered for the Chev, until the Christmas Tree lit up and spotted the Chevelle two lights head start!
Ken smoked the Chevelle.
Later he became the Mayor of Temple City.
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