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Re: Rover V8 Devin

To: baxter culver <peyote222@dellnet.com>, fot@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Rover V8 Devin
From: Bill Babcock <billbab2@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 23:31:22 -0800 (PST)
Hmmm, now that you mention it, I might have been.

--- baxter  culver <peyote222@dellnet.com> wrote:
> Bill,
> Are you sure the car Vic Edelbrock rearranged wasn't
> his Lister bodied
> Corvette??  I didn't know he had a Devin SS.   BTW,
> you are right, a real
> Devin SS is a very valuable car.  Incredibly fast.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Bill Babcock <billbab2@yahoo.com>
> To: <fot@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2000 11:06 AM
> Subject: RE: Rover V8 Devin
> 
> 
> > There were, of course, Devin SS cars, which were
> > corvette based. Mr. Edelbrock rolled a very
> beautiful
> > one in front of Peyote last year. Pretty much
> totalled
> > it.
> >
> > If the car in question is a true Devin SS then
> it's
> > very valuable.
> >
> >
> > --- "BRANNON, VERNON" <vbbrannon@hlmdesign.com>
> wrote:
> > > There is a Chevy V8 Devin for sale in Charlotte.
>  If
> > > anyone has an interest,
> > > I will go look at it.
> > >
> > > Vernon
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: EISANDIEGO@aol.com
> [mailto:EISANDIEGO@aol.com]
> > > Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2000 10:25 AM
> > > To: LANG@isis.mit.edu; fot@autox.team.net
> > > Subject: Rover V8 Devin
> > >
> > >
> > >     There is a gentleman racing the equivalent
> of
> > > Rover V8 devin on the west
> > >
> > > coast. Have not seen the car, but he apparently
> as
> > > the aluminum V8 with the
> > > four carb setup used by the exworks rally cars,
> a
> > > close ratio muncie gear
> > > box, and Triumph rear end. Apparently he is
> having a
> > > problem with snapping
> > > the Triumph axles.I can only imagine a Devin
> with
> > > 300 plus hp.
> > >
> > >     Apparently VARA allows him to run this
> > > particular car. Does anyone know
> > > whether the V8 Buick conversion was run
> > > competitively before 1972? I have
> > > seen one Devin with other V8 which was claimed
> to
> > > have been raced prior to
> > > 1972. I recall that it was a corvette block, but
> I
> > > do not trust my memory
> > > any
> > > more.
> > >
> > > Cary
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
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