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The 427 Shelby Cobra instills ever ' car guy with pure lust, and in fact is what got some people looking at cars in the first place, this author included. The originals aluminum body, complete lack of frill, and take-no-prisoners powerplant combined with a look and stance that say, 'I will hunt you down and eat you for lunch, make for one of the most wicked cars of all time. And its not just a domestic fascination. The Cobras reach is global, and it caught the attention of a 7-year-old in...
Better Valvetrain
As on many old-school engines, the stock Buick shaft-mount valvetrain was marginal even for the stock cam and low-pressure production springs. Nelson's use of late-model valves, each with a slightly different length than the originals, also induced shaft-mount valvetrain geometry' issues. Going the exotic route, Jesel and T amp D will make custom rocker arms and shaft systems to order for a price. Nelson came up with a more affordable solution Machine a 6061-T6 extruded aluminum plate to accept...
Exotic Heads
Pete Aardema specializes in what could be the ultimate dare to be different, street-driv n head conversion changing American domestic pushrod engines to overhead cam configurations. The two main approaches used by Aardema for single overhead cam S0HC conversions, fabricating a custom cam box that bolts to the existing pushrod-type head for dual overhead cam DOHC changeovers, bolt-ingon a DOHC head from a foreign engine. Fera DOHC conversion, the idea s to adapt a head from an engine family that...
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NEVER BEFORE SEEN JAMES DEAN IN ACTION, 1955 Few photographs taken of James Dean during his brief life Feb. 8,1931 Sept. 30,1955 remain unpublished, but Source Interlink Media archivist Thomas Voehringermay have stumbled upon not one, but four such mages. It's possible that these black-and-white action shots have gone unseen since Bob UOIivo processed and filed his Motor Trend film fron a March 1955 SCCArace in Palm Springs, California. Ironically, because none of his three films I tad yet been...
The First 300mph Roadster
If there's any element of SCTA land speed racing at the Bonneville Salt Flats that can be called cutthroat, it's the competition in the Roadster class. Composed of simple, fenderless roadster bodies from model years '28 to '38, the class is the oldest, most traditional, most ill-handling, and most hotly contested of the bunch. The virtually unthinkable goal of a few of those racers has been to set a record at more than 300 mph. In October 2010, at the SCTA World Finals, it finally happened. The...
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Ton Ittn, - I Mii v Dn UW Slro -IXH . CMC U w gt Most of the pictures in the firs issue were from my files. That's Phil Weiand in the wheelchair page 12, top right . He was responsible, indirectly, for my start in race photography. A friend of mine from Oakland, Dick Sobotka, towed Phil's roadstertothe meets with his customized Ford, and I'd ride out there with him. Dick later became Petersen's first advertising salesman. Author's note The Southern California venues pictured here include El...
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A Pro Rodder Took an Old Idea and Improved on It a Lot. Photography Bill McGuire and David Freiburger Jeff Schwartz builds nice cars for a living. His company, Schwartz Performance in Woodstock, Illinois, is known for its high-end Pro Touring machines. The Vega featured here He threw it together from shop debris in his spare time just for fun, an almost tongue-in-cheek project. But it seems Jeff cant build a POS even when he tries The low-buck bomber is a hit wherever it goes, including the...