Rich, I sure hope you had to look that up. I would hate to think that
you could remember all that and I can't remember what I had for dinner
last night. Hope to see you on the salt or at salt talks. Doug Odom
in big ditch
Rich Fox wrote:
> The Wasp came out in 52 at 262 ci flathead six and 120 inch wheel
> base. Later (55?) shrunk to 202 cid and 114 wheel base. The Hornet
> came with the 308 flathead six and wheel base of 124, later at 121. Of
> course in '55 and '56 the wildly popular V8 Hornet came with Packard
> built V8 engines. Of 320 in '55 and 352 inches in '56. These were
> early Pro Stock terrors and were ruled illegal in '57 by NHRA in a
> complete capitulation to the big 3. A lot of people don't know
> that. Rich Fox
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