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To: FastmetalBDF@aol.com, ardunbill@webtv.net
Subject: Honest charley
From: Dick J <lsr_man@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 11:36:22 -0800 (PST)

--- FastmetalBDF@aol.com wrote:
>           Hello  Bill,    I  can highly
> recommend the products of these two 
> manufacturers .   From  1961 to  1965,  I  used
> ( or should say  ABUSED )  a 
> Weber aluminum flywheel with a Scheifer Clutch
> setup on my  301" Chev  powered
> C / Gasser,  usually " launching " at  over 
> 6000  RPM, and on numerous 
> occasions,
> leaving at over  7500  RPM .   I  had  already
> gone through  a number of  
> stock
> Chevrolet clutches of both styles, and  didn't
> trust the stock flywheels 
> anymore as
> things progressed !     I   never  experienced 
> the  slightest  trouble from 
> either unit
> in well over 100 runs, so needless to say  I 
> became a firm believer in their 
> ability 
> " to take a licking  -----  and  KEEP  on
> ticking ! "    I  sold the engine 
> to a friend
> who told me, several years later, he had
> rebuilt the motor, but was still 
> using the
> same clutch / wheel in daily hard service in a
> truck ,  with no problems .
>        Since you mentioned their old catalog, I
> thought I'd tell you where I 
> bought
> those parts  -----  and  quite a few other
> goodies, back then, by  mail order 
> :
>                    Honest  Charlie's   in  
> Chattanooga,  Tennessee  !
> 
>    -----  we also had the pleasure of meeting
> him, and his lovely wife, " 
> Honest
> Gracie ", at the Charlestown, Rhode Island drag
> strip, in fall of  1960 or ' 
> 61 .
>          They were visiting New  England in
> their new " candy apple red "  T 
> - Bird .
> 
>        Again, I  had great service from those
> parts, way back then, and would 
> not
> hesitate to utilize them today .   Good  luck
> with your flathead  (  actual 
> flathead
>   -----  or  Zora' s  heads ?  ) .
>                                           Bruce
>  Ferguson  on   COLD  
> Connecticut  shoreline 
> 

=====
Dick J  
in east Texas
ECTA #72  FX/GMR
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