Tuesday, January 03, 2017
four of the 427 Shelby AC Cobras did not get a 427 engine. They were delivered with 428s.... what a let down!
I'm not big on Fords, and don't respect very many Ford engines... and way up at the top of the list of the big blocks I'll refrain from every speaking well of is the 428.
But when Shelby American couldn't get 427s, he plopped (appropriate term) 428s into four 1966 Cobras.
CSX 3282 was one of them. CSX 3301 and 3305 were two more
http://www.highdefforum.com/1190325-post2019.html
https://www.mecum.com/lots/FL0111-104119/
But when Shelby American couldn't get 427s, he plopped (appropriate term) 428s into four 1966 Cobras.
CSX 3282 was one of them. CSX 3301 and 3305 were two more
http://www.highdefforum.com/1190325-post2019.html
https://www.mecum.com/lots/FL0111-104119/
the 99s
Aviators in Early Hollywood By Shawna Kelly
The organization was founded November 2, 1929, at Curtiss Field, Valley Stream, Long Island, New York. All 117 women pilots at the time were invited to assemble for mutual support, the advancement of aviation and a central office to keep files on women in aviation. Louise Thaden was elected secretary and worked to keep the group together as they struggled to establish themselves and to grow.
With over 150 chapters in the United States and Canada and another 17 offshore Sections located on five continents, nearly every member can feel connected to a nearby group. These groups work with their local communities to support the mission of The 99s: promote the advancement of aviation through education, scholarships and mutual support. Chapters and Sections sponsor and teach educational sessions for youth and adults. With youth, they use aviation to bolster STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) classes for youth, interesting them in the possibilities that STEM fields offer, for adults, they offer seminars for the companions of light aircraft pilots.
http://www.ninety-nines.org/
https://museumofwomenpilots.org/
https://www.facebook.com/99s-Museum-of-Women-Pilots-204164313080425/
I'm not exactly sure about the way this was written, but it seems someone took apart their Jenny airplane, put it on a 10 story building in Los Angeles, and then took off flying, to avoid being stopped at an airport
Who was prohibiting him for flying, and why, isn't mentioned. Seems like a publicity stunt to me, for the movie they were filming, which were released a lot faster after filming than they are nowadays.
back when a Honda Civic wasn't giving the owner enough "panache" someone decided why not market it with the name Avon Turbo Triumph Acclaim. Only 4 are known to still exist
The limited-edition Avon Acclaim, got its name from Avon coachbuilders of Warwick who did the conversion work, that had leather seats with piping to match the body colour, leather door panels, wooden and leather trimmed dashboard, wooden door cappings, two-tone metallic paint, colour-coded wheels with chrome embellishers, chrome-plated grille, colour-coded headlamp surrounds, vinyl roof and extra soundproofing.
The Avon Turbo had Lunar alloy wheels with 205/60 tires, suede upholstery, front air dam, and side decals. A Turbo Technics turbocharger increased the engine's power output from the standard 70 bhp to 105 bhp. It is thought that there are only four surviving Avon Turbos including the press car.
It should not surprise anyone that Honda would be getting a business going in England, after all, they opened a factory in Ohio and went about making cars in the USA. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triumph_Acclaim
The Acclaim was significant as the first essentially Japanese car to be built within the European Economic Community (now the European Union), to bypass Japan's voluntary limit of 11 percent market of the total number of European sales.
The Acclaim was also a major turnaround point for British Leyland itself, with the car sporting good reliability and build quality from the outset - a stark contrast to the quality issues which had plagued the Austin Allegro and Morris Marina during the 1970s.
The Acclaim holds the record for the lowest percentage of warranty claims for a British Leyland car.
New 427 Cobras waiting for Halibrand wheels at the LAX Shelby American facility. Photo from the George Watters Collection
one is being unloaded from the plane, with the top down
The GT-40 program had priority for the wheels so the Cobras had to wait for Halibrand to get caught up.
These are Street versions without the Semi/Competition version's sidepipes, hood scoop and roll bar. These cars are also awaiting their chrome bumpers.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/stiffspeed/
Ken Miles giving Mort Sahl a ride in a narrow-hip 427 street car at LAX
and google says the image can be found somewhere at http://saacforum.com/index.php?action=printpage;topic=27706.0
Steve let me know source of the photo is http://saacforum.com/index.php?topic=27706.195 but it doesn't say a thing about the status of the cars,
The Holman Moody Honker, tested by Andretti, and he called it the worst race car he'd ever driven
Andretti praised Holman Moody for exceptional Nascar racers, and he should know...he won in Nascar too, but he said they didn't get it with sports cars. Again, he knows these things.
Here's something I found interesting about the Honker, it's chassis was designed by the same guy that designed the Ford GT, Len Bailey... Alan Mann Racing developed the chassis, but running the program and building the engines was up to Holman Moody
http://www.ultimatecarpage.com/car/870/Holman-and-Moody-Honker-II-Ford.html
Ever hear about the sabotage in the garages at the 1969 Can Am race at Riverside?
Controversy surrounding the 12th Riverside Grand Prix.
According to one documented account, the Group 7 unlimited horsepower cars driven by Chris Amon and Lothar Molschenbacher "had been tampered with" prior to the $70.000 Oct. 26 Canadian-American Challenge Cup race.
Amon, veteran Formula 1 pilot from New Zealand, was assigned to a factory Ferrari which encountered numerous mechanical problems prior to the race. Amon's crew discovered, in a routine check before the staging on the grid, that the cotter pin had been removed from the balance bar, a vital part of the braking system. Another pin was inserted.
Although the 700-horsepower Ferrari started after the rest of the 36-car field had been led away by the Barracuda pace car, it was blackflagged off the track three laps later for a push start by its crew.
All cars must be started internally, according to SCCA rules. Soon after the start the new brake lining worked itself loose, forcing a pit stop which put the crimson-and-white car out of contention. It finished 16th.
Although the saboteur or saboteurs were never caught, one fact remains: They had easy access into the garage area, enabling them to perform such an act. Motschenbachcr. a German-born mechanic-driver from Beverly Hills, discovered a left rear flex line of his McLaren MK-12 Chevrolet had been cut, presumably with wire cutters. The Molschenbacher crew changed the flex line and bled the brakes, arriving 10 minutes late at the pre-grid.
Unlike other sanctioning bodies such as the United States Auto Club (USAC) and the National Assn. for Stock Car Racing (NASCAR), the SCCA does not enact stringent security measures to bar non-participants from the pits and garages.
According to one documented account, the Group 7 unlimited horsepower cars driven by Chris Amon and Lothar Molschenbacher "had been tampered with" prior to the $70.000 Oct. 26 Canadian-American Challenge Cup race.
Amon, veteran Formula 1 pilot from New Zealand, was assigned to a factory Ferrari which encountered numerous mechanical problems prior to the race. Amon's crew discovered, in a routine check before the staging on the grid, that the cotter pin had been removed from the balance bar, a vital part of the braking system. Another pin was inserted.
Although the 700-horsepower Ferrari started after the rest of the 36-car field had been led away by the Barracuda pace car, it was blackflagged off the track three laps later for a push start by its crew.
All cars must be started internally, according to SCCA rules. Soon after the start the new brake lining worked itself loose, forcing a pit stop which put the crimson-and-white car out of contention. It finished 16th.
Although the saboteur or saboteurs were never caught, one fact remains: They had easy access into the garage area, enabling them to perform such an act. Motschenbachcr. a German-born mechanic-driver from Beverly Hills, discovered a left rear flex line of his McLaren MK-12 Chevrolet had been cut, presumably with wire cutters. The Molschenbacher crew changed the flex line and bled the brakes, arriving 10 minutes late at the pre-grid.
Unlike other sanctioning bodies such as the United States Auto Club (USAC) and the National Assn. for Stock Car Racing (NASCAR), the SCCA does not enact stringent security measures to bar non-participants from the pits and garages.
Anyone (child, girlfriend or grandmother) can purchase a $5 paddock pass which allows free reign in the working garages. A milling throng of 80,200 attended the Riverside Grand Prix. It seemed they all had paddock passes. At 10 a.m. on race day, it looked like Times Square on V-J Day. Drooling babes in arms, girls wearing that blank expression of "What's going on here?" and the perennial camera buff loaded down with $2,000 worth of equipment, strolled through the garages.
One mechanic, working on Dan Gurney's McLeagle Chevy, had to push his way through a layer of. six bodies to reach the car. As soon as he bent down to work on the left rear wheel hub, the young man found himself entombed by spectators leering over his head. Under such conditions it would be a simple matter to drop a foreign object, like a bolt or rock, down the engine stacks of the intake manifold. The cutting of a fuel line or brake lining would pose no special problems.
Riverside president Les Lichter denied any connection between the spectators and the tampering. "Although they (the spectators) may cause some inconvenience to the workers in the garages." said Richter. "It is very doubtful that sabotaging of cars occurs because of them. I think it would be unfortunate to make a rule and just say, 'No, you can't come in here anymore.' For many of these fans, the garage activity is more interesting than the ' race."
Sometime between 5 p.m. Saturday and 9 a.m. Sunday, the tampering was rumored to have occurred. Whether it was a crew member of a rival outfit or a 'sadistic spectator,' no one seemed to know. But can the racing fraternity afford to shun the incident? Racing is inherently dangerous without adding the specter of sabotage. More stringent laws, limiting access lo the garage area lo drivers, crew members and working press, should be enacted by the SCCA. A novelty for spectators can hardly be an adequate excuse for endangering a driver's life.
November 7, 1969
Independent from Long Beach, California · Page 47
In Mark Donohue's book, Unfair Advantage, Mark says that he was told by mechanics that sparks set off some gasoline, the fire extinguisher wouldn't work, and then the fire got to some racing tires. Page 269
Burkey pointed out this Camaro pace car with a plexiglass bubble on the hood, the 1967 Camaro Cherokee. The blister shows off a Mark IV 396 complete with four dual weber downdrafts.
1967 Can-Am Road America, the driver is the Can Am spokesman, Stirling Moss
http://www.diecastxchange.com/forum1/topic/185130-pro-sports-racing-cars-wanted-in-118th-updated-52116/
Originally built as an SS/RS convertible with the 396-cu.in. Mark IV big-block V-8 engine, the Camaro went directly to the GM Styling studios to be customized under the direction of GM design boss Bill Mitchell to help generate publicity for the then-new Camaro.
Alterations included split bumpers front and rear, a seamless ducktail-style rear spoiler, a hood tach, driving lamps and a special domed hood fitted with a clear Lexan top that displayed the big-block engine, which had been swapped to the hotter L78 375hp version of the 396, fitted with a quartet of Weber down-draft carburetors mounted to a Moon intake. Turbine-style wheels styled after those used on the Corvette were also fitted. The restyled body was then treated to a custom candy-apple red over gold metalflake paint finish and dubbed the Cherokee.
http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2017/01/new-images-of-cherokee-ss-camaro-mark.html
http://www.deansgarage.com/2016/1967-canam-road-america/
https://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2013/11/27/freshly-restored-one-off-cherokee-camaro-debuts/
https://www.mecum.com/news/2009/02/09/mecum-auction-to-offer-special-1967-camaro-cherokee-styling-car/2075/
Monday, January 02, 2017
Joe Leonard driving the McKee Mk. 14, a four-wheel drive special with an automatic transmission and a twin-turbo 7.5-liter Oldsmobile
It turned out to have too much power for its brakes and was withdrawn, never to be seen again
http://www.diecastxchange.com/forum1/topic/185130-pro-sports-racing-cars-wanted-in-118th-updated-52116/
Mario Andretti with the M6B, the “429’er, actually 494 ci, 8.1 liters
They claimed 720 horsepower from this monster and Andretti said he could get wheelspin in any gear any time; he said the acceleration was so great he had trouble reaching the gearshift.
Unfortunately, during pre-race warm-up a constant-velocity joint failed, breaking an upright which was fixed but the unseen CV joint breakage prevented the car from starting from the pit lane at race time
http://www.diecastxchange.com/forum1/topic/185130-pro-sports-racing-cars-wanted-in-118th-updated-52116/
Dan Gurney, Ford loyalist that he was, had been struggling for the last two years trying to get a decent Ford engine in his McLeagle but Ford wouldn’t spend the money.
Once he was turned down for a copy of the 429’er 8.1 liter that Mario Andretti had, he finally sold his soul and got a 7-liter Chevy for his McLeagle
http://www.diecastxchange.com/forum1/topic/185130-pro-sports-racing-cars-wanted-in-118th-updated-52116/
the McLaren Mk. 1-Traco Oldsmobile
http://www.diecastxchange.com/forum1/topic/185130-pro-sports-racing-cars-wanted-in-118th-updated-52116/
Another spare tire under the windshield racecar
Fastest downhill wheelchair you'll ever see, Stacy Kohut's mountain biking 4 wheeler
as long as the high center of gravity doesn't cause a tip over, everything's going to be cool.
It’s a 6.5-inch suspension travel gravity buggy made of chromoly, which he takes out between two to 12 runs a day, three of four days a week.
This season at Whistler, he went through four sets of four wheels, four sets of four tires, two pair of handlebars, eight sets of brake pads, 10 pairs of gloves, a couple helmets, three jerseys, some pants, two kidney belts
http://www.pinkbike.com/news/whistler-four-wheel-fury-stacy-kohut-video-2016.html
http://www.redbull.com/us/en/bike/stories/1331832624347/four-wheel-mountain-bike-stacy-kohut
2 weeks from now, Vintage Snow Mobile World Championships in Eagle River
January 13 – January 15
Jan 13 at 12 PM to Jan 15 at 3 PM
https://www.facebook.com/events/1245265538846128/
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