Ram Fury
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Lads --
A couple of weekends ago, I took the Big-Tailed Beast (my SonoRamic Commando equipped '60 Fury) to a car show at Pikes Peak International Raceway. It was quite an affair and I understand they had over a thousand cars there. Surprisingly, there were as many resto-mods as there were pure hot rods, though triple-nickle Chevies predominated. The Beast didn't win anything, as expected, but it sure attracted attention -- one '57 Belaire even moved from next to us because the owner thought he was being neglected.
I did take it on the 1/8 mile strip but I really have no idea how I did. I'm a product of the old days with the flagman and I just can't cope with those lights. Also, in my day, we had timing slips and I completely forgot to look at the results posted on the lights. Don't get old.
There were a couple of interesting comments, though:
"Sir, is that an early version of the deactivization principle where only half of the cylinders fire to operate more economically?" "Nope. She's running on the primary two-barrels of EACH carb all the time until I put my foot into it so I can watch the fuel level go down as the MPH goes up."
"Oh, a Slant-6. Does it have an aluminum block?" "No, it's actually two cast iron slant-4's coupled together much the same as Chrysler did on their 5-bank (five 251 CID straight sixes arranged around a single shaft) engine on the M4A4 Sherman tank in WWII."
People are interesting.
Joe Godec
A couple of weekends ago, I took the Big-Tailed Beast (my SonoRamic Commando equipped '60 Fury) to a car show at Pikes Peak International Raceway. It was quite an affair and I understand they had over a thousand cars there. Surprisingly, there were as many resto-mods as there were pure hot rods, though triple-nickle Chevies predominated. The Beast didn't win anything, as expected, but it sure attracted attention -- one '57 Belaire even moved from next to us because the owner thought he was being neglected.
I did take it on the 1/8 mile strip but I really have no idea how I did. I'm a product of the old days with the flagman and I just can't cope with those lights. Also, in my day, we had timing slips and I completely forgot to look at the results posted on the lights. Don't get old.
There were a couple of interesting comments, though:
"Sir, is that an early version of the deactivization principle where only half of the cylinders fire to operate more economically?" "Nope. She's running on the primary two-barrels of EACH carb all the time until I put my foot into it so I can watch the fuel level go down as the MPH goes up."
"Oh, a Slant-6. Does it have an aluminum block?" "No, it's actually two cast iron slant-4's coupled together much the same as Chrysler did on their 5-bank (five 251 CID straight sixes arranged around a single shaft) engine on the M4A4 Sherman tank in WWII."
People are interesting.
Joe Godec
