I have some cackle fest videos .....good eye watering stuff......:LOL:
The videos will almost make the eyes water...........:3dSMILE:
Theres alot of people out here building them just for a cackle fest.
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I have some cackle fest videos .....good eye watering stuff......:LOL:
The videos will almost make the eyes water...........:3dSMILE:
Theres alot of people out here building them just for a cackle fest.
Here are some pics I had saved:
and more twins.
TV Tommy Ivo and the twin nailheads.
If you want to see dozens of twins, go to this site called "Two To Go". Great stuff!
http://www.twotogo.homestead.com/
I think I'm the guy who built that 286 engine on the back with the centrifugal blower. In fact, I think Stan ran that blower on his street car for a time. If that is the one I built, it was 3-3/8 x 4 and had an Isky 404 cam with radial tappets. Did you know anything about that car? I'd really like to know if that is the engine I sold Stan in Spfld in 1956 to get the money to buy a Chevy V8 for a street rail job that I wanted to run.Quote:
Originally Posted by Henry Rifle
Jim Delaney
Your inclusion of Stan's 2-engine car is astounding to me. I believe that I am the guy who built the rear, 286, engine. It had an Isky 404 cam with radial tappets (same cam as Yates-Mickelson) and was balanced by Granatelli in Chicago. The heads-as I sold it to Stan in 56- were Evans. Are you familiar enough with the car to verify thats the engine? I haven't spoken to Stan for 50 years and would be thrilled if that was a pic of an engine I built in Spfld.
Jim Delaney
Jim,
No, I can't verify. I haven't seen Stan since the early 1960s when I left for college. I remember the car, but I was more interested in his F/Gas slingshot.
I was looking around the web, and found the following:
http://www.hotrodder.com/cgi-bin/dra...num=1191353195
Stan was at White Hall, IL with Joe (we used to call him Jody) Hendricks earlier this month. Joe's running an AA nostalgia Fueler. When I was in high school, Joe was running a '40 Ford gasser, and Paul Smith was running a hot rod '55 Chevy. "Pork" John Lawson has crewed for Stan, and Joe and has run some cars of his own. I went to high scholl with all those guys.
I miss the North Grand Icy . . .
Wow,
Haven't heard anyone mention the North Grand Icy in a while!! I met Stan in the Knucklebusters Hot Rod Club...were you there too?
Jim
del5132@comcast.net
I wasn't a member, but I remember the name. I was a bit younger than Stan - graduated from Virden High in '61. The big boys would let us hang around, but we weren't in the "in" group. We were the "Potsies" to their "Fonzies." :LOL:
My crowd was running 49 - 52 Chevys. Mine was a nosed and decked blue '52 post with a Corvette six, Fenton splits, dual carbs, rolled pans, '55 Pontiac bumpers on the front, mesh/doorknob grille and spiders on reversed-rim wheels. I blew away some small block Chevy V-8s at the eighth mile strip in Springfield. Lucky it was only an eighth. They were coming on fast. :LOL:
Do you remember a Cadillac-powered white '32 (I think - could have been an A-bone) Ford roadster from the Virden area? Bill "Woody" Woodruff was pretty well known in the local hot-rod circles.
Man, what have I found???? I grew up at Palmyra,Il grad in 59, used to go to Alton, saw the 204 run, remember Stans twin, probably played basketball or track against you guys-- Worked at Schumaker A/C Impliment in Waverly
all before I went to Chicago to work for the airlines--went to California in late 60's, built our fuelers with my old room mate John Keeling and now cruise these kind of sites--and also ScaleAutoMag forum where I answer questions for the guys building models of my cars
Jerry
Back to Chicago area mid 70s, UDRA pro stock, etc, etc
Jerry
Jerry, I grew up an hour south of Chicago, and am about 5 years younger.
While you are on here, I have to ask a paint question. Who actually came up with the "string art" paint design for your beautiful race cars? I was impressed from the first time I saw them, and would still rank those as one of the best designs I've seen.....and I've been in that biz since '71! Jay Moody
Well, I didn't know it was called string art. George Cerny Jr did it and he used real narrow tape kinda laid on in a tangent sort a way??? The unusual and trick I think was how the design was carried from one panel to the next--
The FED was done back part, and Kenny Youngblood did the lettering, when we did the front body work Nat Quik did the gold leaf . He had a orangish colored Zebra striping that ran thru out the the verigated gold leaf Keeling & Clayton letters--It only showed up in some pictures under certain lighting--was a real surprise when we discovered it!!!
I appreciate all the comments we have gotten over the years about our cars, but I really think that it is just an example of the fantastic art work of the painters of that time---sort of like a Renisance? It sure is hard to make something these days as everyone expects the latest thing I do to top what I have already done??????
I just built a 32 five window for a customer that is out there----I'll have to post some pictures of it ( and maybe a couple of my diggers?)
Jerry
I won the MSM conference and Macoupin County long jump championships in '61, and our '60 football team was undefeated and un-scored upon (until the last quarter of the Auburn Game). We also won the Waverly Holiday basketball tournament in 1959 or 60. I looked in the records, but didn't see any Palmyra games. I'll bet we met at a track meet or two, though.
My grandfather Cox was born in Palmyra in 1891. Do I remember a major fire that burned most of downtown Palmyra in the '50s or so - or am I having a synapse cross-fire.
You need to look for Northwestern High---
Yes there was a fire in Palmyra that burned up Jennings Chevrolet--we were breaking windows out of new cars so we could push them away from the building--had to be 57-59
Schoo; principal was Cox but I don't think he was that old
Think I threw the discus? 880, and high jumped some--was Valdictorian 1959, wanted to go to Air Force Academy, congressman gave it to political friend, offered me Naval, but I didn't want that---got drafted when JFK got shot--did Selma march thing against King--
Long time ago---
Jerry