Ugo, glad to hear from you about Clem. He's unquestionably one of the
greats of the California hot rod and Bonneville movement, and his
friends know he is also the embodiment of kindness, fun and wit. We all
hope he will make a good recovery.
And not to be pedantic, but please note he spells his last name TeBow,
and that the original rendering of C.T. Automotive is this way, although
Clem and Don Clark styled the C.T. a couple other ways later, as Clem
recently told me. Such things DO matter.
Clem and Don first came to fame in Hot Rod magazine as the first
builders of a successful Bonneville Ardun, a 162 mph record in "C"
Roadster in '51 in Don's '32 Ford HiBoy roadster, running 25%
nitromethane with their homemade fuel injector.
As you point out, C.T. built the 248 cubic inch engine for the
Hill-Davis "City of Burbank" streamliner which took U.S. and
international FIA records in Sept. '52 at 229.774 mph for the flying
mile and 226.9 for the flying kilometer, plus two standing start records
on that occasion. The engine comprised used and rebuilt Ford Flathead
block-crank-rods etc. with the one-off Adams-Mohler aluminum OHV Hemi
conversion heads, and one of C.T.'s homemade fuel injectors, on 50%
nitromethane. These heads are on display today at the Smith Museum at
Speedway Motors, Lincoln, Nebraska.
The March '53 issue of Hop Up magazine has a splendid article about this
project.
Bill
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