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Re: Vintage 4

To: <V4GR@aol.com>, <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: Vintage 4
From: "Keith Turk" <kturk@ala.net>
Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 17:46:50 -0500
I sent a Picture of Rich's Hot Rod to Mayf yesterday for inclusion on the
web site.... real neat little piece... and it does look like a Bonneville
hot Rod... if I ever saw one.. neat car...

Keith

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> From: V4GR@aol.com
> To: land-speed@autox.team.net
> Subject: Vintage 4
> Date: Thursday, May 27, 1999 3:48 PM
> 
>       I like the vintage 4 class because its not "I can buy better parts 
> than you" but "I can make better parts than I did last time." We don't go

> very fast (except for Roy Creel) but we have as much fun as anybody. In
63 or 
> 64 I met Dave Dozier at the drags and he was telling me about the 32
Plymouth 
> drag motor he used to have. He mentioned a Y block Ford head was a near
bolt 
> on. I thought about that for years and in 94 I found a 31 Ply engine, and

> away we went.                                                         
> Harold Johanson holds the record in V4GR at 144 at salt 147 at the dirt.
I 
> thought the Ply might do it at the salt, 147 at El Mirage looked tough.
As it 
> happened the fastest it has ever gone is 135 MPH at Bonneville and at El 
> Mirage. Still whenever it ran I was amazed that mismatched pile of parts 
> would run at all.             My roadster is the old San Francisco Ramblers 
> club roadster that ran at B'ville in 55 with a 260 Dodge hemi. Than it
was Al 
> Haloway's E/BFR and than I ran it as a G/GR until I put in the Ply. Its
has 
> Morris torsion bars all round and a swing axle V8 quickchange rearend. It

> went 142 one way with the 2 liter Lotus motor, went 219 for Al with 258
Blown 
> sbc.                                                                     
    
>                       I'm building a Blown flathead 32 Plymouth for it now, 
> hope springs eternal.                                 Rich Fox

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