Coolest or Oddest Combo..... - Page 17

ZASKO · 03-12-2009, 04:26 PM

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Originally Posted by bill dedman

Ford sixes....

Back in the '70s, somebody cut up some 351 Cleveland V8 cylinder heads into pieces, and adapted three of those four pieces to a 300 Ford inline six, but I can't remember who it was. Might have been Tiffin, Ohio's Jan Reidell, or maybe Canadian Ralph Hope (Hope, Lang, and Rydell.)

Anybody else remember that? Of course, it couldn't run Modified Production; had to be classsified in as a Gas Coupe.

Ran just like a V8, of course... formidable!!!

That was Arlen Fadley in a Ford Maverick- some modified class

ZASKO · 03-12-2009, 04:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Doug Domm

Wasn't that motor 1969 only?

right "69" only

FED 387 · 03-12-2009, 05:38 PM

was not fadely---it was Bruce Sizemore---Comp 387

John Mason · 03-12-2009, 08:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Bill Rolik

John,

By any chance, is this your H/SA Catalina? I shot this at Island a couple of years before I started racing myself. The name on the quarter panel is "Tomahawk".

Bill Rolik

SS 1514

Bill,
Sorry I took so long to reply. I missed the whole thread end.
That is (was) me in my old Pontiac. Most successful race car I ever had. Really tore things up for 3 years, won a lot of races, then decided to go SS racing. Bad mistake.

Bill Rolik · 03-12-2009, 09:58 PM

John,

I am pretty sure that particular night at "The Patch" was the only time I ever saw your car. And it was certainly the only Pontiac I can recall out of the Duffy's stable.

Running a combination like the Catalina today would surely attract attention.

At today's speeds, you would probably need the biggest Brembo brakes in their catalog to stop that bad boy, especially at "The Patch"!

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FED 387 VIP Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 3,349 Likes: 328 Liked 280 Times in 150 Posts	Re: Coolest or Oddest Combo..... was not fadely---it was Bruce Sizemore---Comp 387

03-12-2009, 09:58 PM	#165
Bill Rolik Member Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Hasbrouck Heights, NJ Posts: 120 Likes: 1 Liked 47 Times in 9 Posts	Re: Coolest or Oddest Combo..... John, I am pretty sure that particular night at "The Patch" was the only time I ever saw your car. And it was certainly the only Pontiac I can recall out of the Duffy's stable. Running a combination like the Catalina today would surely attract attention. At today's speeds, you would probably need the biggest Brembo brakes in their catalog to stop that bad boy, especially at "The Patch"!