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I have some cackle fest videos .....good eye watering stuff......
The videos will almost make the eyes water...........
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/

Originally Posted by Henry Rifle

I was looking for info on "The Greek's" 204 mph run at Alton in April, 1960 (I was there!) and I found this photo of Stan Lomelino from my hometown, Virden, IL. Stan was a blacksmith by trade, and a local hero to the car guys. He won Indy several times in the F Dragster class (flatheds).

This is an experimental twin he built. It was too heavy and too complicated, but an interesting experiment. The rear end was set up with two pinions running one ring gear, and used floating truck axles.

Stan was one of the reasons I started working on hot rods - hanging around his dirt-floored shop watching him work. He was always receptive to young folks, and helped a lot of us out. He was one of the unknown, unrecognized pioneers.

I remember a unique use he had for a flathead. He ran it on four cylinders, and used the other four as an air compressor.

Stan still has a listed phone number in my home town. If I ever get back, I need to look him up.

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.
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
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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."

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.

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