while we are all here going over the past do not forget oscar koveleski's
cross eyed ferrari with a small block chevy in it! just another car #54 .
it ran like stink and sounded great on the hillclimb circut. it was not
just another red ferrari!
chuck.
----- Original Message -----
From: Jim Hayes <hayes@mediaone.net>
To: <WSpohn4@aol.com>; Vintage Race List <vintage-race@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, December 01, 2000 3:44 AM
Subject: Transplants
> WSpohn4@aol.com wrote:
> > How about the D type
> > that ran at Westwood, fitted with a big block Chev motor
> Or the Ferrari Testarossa that Neil Cargyle (Nashville, TN) ran in SCCA
> C Mod in the late 50s and 60s with a Corvette Fuelie engine after
> telling Chinetti where to go when the second engine blew up. Or the
> Maserati 300S I found in a barn in Brockton, MA in '73 that had been
> raced with a 400 ci Pontiac? Or the T series MG with a Flathead Ford
> that runs VSCCA? Or the Riley/Flathead "Ardent Alligator" from VSCCA.
> And then, the most whacko perhaps of all, Briggs Cunningham's SSK
> Bu-Merc with the straight 8 Buick engine?
> Everyone should read Alan Girdler's "American Road Race SPecials" book
> to see what a variety existed!
> Long before the sports racing cars became high tech, the modified
> classes thrived with modified production cars mixing it up with the real
> race cars. Many were created by engine swaps when it became unfeasible
> to replace the engine with originals or the owner simply wanted the
> extra speed of a small block V8.
> The BOP aluminum V8 probably holds the record for the most varied engine
> swaps due to its light weight and small size. Worked great in Lotus 19s
> and Cooper Monacos - started the movement that became the USRRC and
> CanAM. In fact we (my brother and I) owned a Cooper Monaco modified by
> Ed McKee for Roger Ward with a 333 Traco Chev and an aluminum body by
> Troutman Barnes. (Photo on the second row of the archives page:
> http://people.ne.mediaone.net/hayes/archives.htm )
> And, man, did those V8s sound good!
> Jim
> --
> Jim Hayes Fotec/Cable U
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> All generalizations, with the possible exception of this one, are false!
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