Wes
Right off I can't think of the liner that you say was burnt up. It's hard to
remember everything at my age. The Puimpkinseed was stretched about 2 feet
to get the GMC in it . The Ardun went in last year. Jim Travis spent a lot
of time on the restoration and upgrading. Had clutch problems and never made
a complete run as I recall. Don't know what the plans are for this year.
Glen
----- Original Message -----
From: "Wester S Potter" <wspotter@jps.net>
To: "glen barrett" <speedtimer@charter.net>; "William McIntyre"
<acromac@worldnet.att.net>; <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2001 8:05 PM
Subject: Re: Ford OHV 6's
> What was the tiny streamliner that was destroyed in a fire at Speed Week
> about fourteen years ago?
>
> I remember now that Bill Burke was talking to Steve and describing the car
> that was restored by Travers. Painted blue and white at Speed Week. The
> car I brought up to Utah had been raced by Bill without Eels' permission.
> It was painted gold and had bullet hole decals on it when I got it.
There's
> pictures of it on the cover of Sports Cars Illustrated from about 1964.
> Bill can't remember the exact number of different cars he has raced at the
> flats but it's around 20.
>
> Ak Miller spent a lot of Ford's money in the later sixties trying to get a
> Falcon 6 cyl. engine to go faster than the slant six in Wilford Day's
> Barracuda. Never happened, SCTA ended up splitting the class, retiring
> Wilford's record and Ak finally got a record. Funny thing was Wilford had
> done a lot of the work on the slant six in Ak's shop. The guy is a great
> tuner. Has the slant six in an Aston Martin DB coupe, I think it is a
DB6.
> Won the Aston Martin Hillclimb at Carson City a few years ago. All the
> Aston buffs were raving about the great sounding Aston engine ... until he
> popped the "bonnet." Some surprised faces.
>
> Wes
>
> on 5/25/01 8:30 PM, glen barrett at speedtimer@charter.net wrote:
>
> > Wes, Bill
> > Go to the scta-bni.org web site. Click on bonneville and go to 1999.
There
> > is a picture of the Pumpkin Seed on the 8-19-99 picture post.It had a
GMC 6
> > in it then.
> > Glen
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Wester S Potter" <wspotter@jps.net>
> > To: "William McIntyre" <acromac@worldnet.att.net>;
> > <land-speed@autox.team.net>
> > Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 9:01 PM
> > Subject: Re: Ford OHV 6's
> >
> >
> >> The Wee Wee Eel was in dry, spider infested, storage in Torrance with
the
> >> other Eelco car ( now at the Speedway Museum in Lincoln, NE.) for many
> >> years. Eels Lohn raced it with a British Ford engine. They had
problems
> >> with the engine getting enough gas until they took the jets out of the
> >> carb's. It went over 200 with that set up. It was almost a tricycle
> > set-up
> >> with the rear tires very close together ... just room for the sprocket
for
> >> the chain drive. Nothing to stop the chain from doing serious damage
to
> > the
> >> driver's head if it broke. I picked the car up from Eels in early June
of
> >> '94, brought it to Salt Lake and USFRA people restored the exterior of
the
> >> car cosmetically, re-painted it the correct color and put the same type
> >> lettering on the car. It was on display at Saltair until the shop
where
> > it
> >> was on display changed hands and we couldn't guarantee it's safety. It
> > was
> >> then at the Salt Flats Garage except for an Autorama show where we had
it
> > on
> >> display. Eighteen months ago it was moved to the Stateline Hotel in
> >> Wendover through an arrangement with Larry Volk, the Stateline manager
at
> >> the time and Eels Lohn. Last I saw the car some non-green-card janitor
> > had
> >> his stinking feet propped on it while he took a nap.
> >>
> >> The Pumpkin Seed was a smaller car that really resembled just that. If
> > I'm
> >> thinking of the right car it was tiny, short wheelbase, the driver
looked
> >> between his feet to see the course and there was just the clear plastic
> >> nose, not much of a bubble for head space. The car I'm thinking of was
> >> destroyed in a fire on the salt in the '80's.
> >>
> >> Wes
> >>
> >> on 5/25/01 7:44 PM, William McIntyre at acromac@worldnet.att.net wrote:
> >>
> >>> When I was drag racing in the late 50's / early 60's I think I
> >>> remember reading about a Ford OHV 6 powered Bonneville car called the
> >>> "punkin seed" possibly owned and/or sponsered by Ells Lohn of ELCO
> >>> fame.Perhaps Ardun Doug could enlighten us on this.
> >>> Bill in Mesa,Arizona where 110 degrees came early this year.
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