Bill Ward also "played" with a SBC powered Corvair on the salt.
Ed
Wester S Potter wrote:
> Tom,
> He ran them for at least two years ... had to be early on in the life of the
> Corvair because they were the original body style. Some rude comments about
> how hard it was for him to squeeze his rather large body into that drivers
> compartment with the roll cage in place. Don West was running a Corvair
> body at the time with a supercharged Chrysler Hemi in what would have been
> the front seat of the four door sedan. It was easier for us to get at the
> Chrysler for maintenance between runs than for Andy to get at the Corvair
> engine with all his addd-ons.
> Wes
>
> on 4/17/01 7:30 AM, Thomas E. Bryant at saltracer@awwwsome.com wrote:
>
> > Wes
> > I wasn't aware of Granatelli running Corvairs. When was that? All Andy's
> > competition that I knew of had to do with promoting his Paxton
> > Superchargers.
> > Tom
> >
> > Wester S Potter wrote:
> >
> >> Andy Granatelli first came to the salt with Corvairs didn't he? I know he
> >> raced them for at least two years at Speedweek.
> >>
> >> Wes
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