--- FastmetalBDF@aol.com wrote:
> Hello Bill, I can highly
> recommend the products of these two
> manufacturers . From 1961 to 1965, I used
> ( or should say ABUSED ) a
> Weber aluminum flywheel with a Scheifer Clutch
> setup on my 301" Chev powered
> C / Gasser, usually " launching " at over
> 6000 RPM, and on numerous
> occasions,
> leaving at over 7500 RPM . I had already
> gone through a number of
> stock
> Chevrolet clutches of both styles, and didn't
> trust the stock flywheels
> anymore as
> things progressed ! I never experienced
> the slightest trouble from
> either unit
> in well over 100 runs, so needless to say I
> became a firm believer in their
> ability
> " to take a licking ----- and KEEP on
> ticking ! " I sold the engine
> to a friend
> who told me, several years later, he had
> rebuilt the motor, but was still
> using the
> same clutch / wheel in daily hard service in a
> truck , with no problems .
> Since you mentioned their old catalog, I
> thought I'd tell you where I
> bought
> those parts ----- and quite a few other
> goodies, back then, by mail order
> :
> Honest Charlie's in
> Chattanooga, Tennessee !
>
> ----- we also had the pleasure of meeting
> him, and his lovely wife, "
> Honest
> Gracie ", at the Charlestown, Rhode Island drag
> strip, in fall of 1960 or '
> 61 .
> They were visiting New England in
> their new " candy apple red " T
> - Bird .
>
> Again, I had great service from those
> parts, way back then, and would
> not
> hesitate to utilize them today . Good luck
> with your flathead ( actual
> flathead
> ----- or Zora' s heads ? ) .
> Bruce
> Ferguson on COLD
> Connecticut shoreline
>
=====
Dick J
in east Texas
ECTA #72 FX/GMR
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