anybody there?

make that roubleta reefa*.


*if you could not identify the name bill vukovich, a name randomly
chosen, you may be too young to translate the above.

Art McGinn > wrote:

> make that roubleta reefa*.
>
>
> *if you could not identify the name bill vukovich, a name randomly
> chosen, you may be too young to translate the above.

I'll see your Bill Vukovich and raise you one Bobby Ball. I recall
sitting in the stands at the Arizona State Fairgrounds and watching him
in one of his earlier races...



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i confess i had to look him up. since we are having a senior moment
here -- it appears nobody will notice, on this list -- i will note that
i was a big fan of the dad of the indy 500's tom sneva's, ed sneva, the
dirt-track champeen of the stock-car track in mead, wash., driving a
battered '38 hudson hornet with (always) a slightly-illegally-bored-out
six-banger mill which just routinely smoked everything in sight. this
was at the same time ball was racing in arizona. those old dirt tracks,
with parts flying every which way into the crowd and potholes developing
before your very eyes and knocking-out suspension systems and even
wheels, were more fun than anything that followed them.



XS11E wrote:
> Art McGinn > wrote:
>
>> make that roubleta reefa*.
>>
>>
>> *if you could not identify the name bill vukovich, a name randomly
>> chosen, you may be too young to translate the above.
>
> I'll see your Bill Vukovich and raise you one Bobby Ball. I recall
> sitting in the stands at the Arizona State Fairgrounds and watching him
> in one of his earlier races...
>
>
>

Art McGinn > wrote:


> since we are having a senior moment here -- it appears nobody will
> notice, on this list -- i will note that i was a big fan of the
> dad of the indy 500's tom sneva's, ed sneva, the dirt-track
> champeen of the stock-car track in mead, wash., driving a battered
> '38 hudson hornet with (always) a slightly-illegally-bored-out
> six-banger mill which just routinely smoked everything in sight.

Wow, you really ARE having a senior moment! '38 Hudson Hornet? The
Hornet came out in 1951 and in 1952 the dual carburetter "Twin H Power"
version was introduced and Hudson became the one to beat in stock car
racing.

I recall in 1951 walking by the Hudson dealership in Phoenix and
spotting a chubby, red haired, freckled faced southern boy named
Marshall Teague working on his Hornet (yes, they were their own chief
mechanic in those days.) He wasn't too busy to stop and talk to a
couple of car-crazy teenagers and, believe it or not, shared a couple
of tech tips with us! The one I recall now was him painting the head
gasket with aluminum paint before installing the head because it dried
fast, made a good seal and could stand much more heat than any other
sealer made in those days...

Teague won the race and went on to become a legend. I remember him as
a very nice guy willing to talk about cars and racing to us.

http://www.legendsofnascar.com/marshall_teague.htm
and
http://www.legendsofnascar.com/Hudson.htm


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reviewing online pix of hudsons -- and there was some gorgeous models
in the mid-1930s -- i'd now suggest the battered ed sneva bomb was a '46
super six sedan or coupe. if hudson made an 8-banger, it must have had
one of those. it was running against v-8s and straight eights and just
routinely ran away from them. whatever, hudson must have had a design
death-wish with those bizarre step-down inverted bathtubs from the
hornet era. i would opine that that design, indeed, killed that worthy
brand. it was nice that pixar's "cars" saw fit to revive the model as
the ancient hero. i have heard a few greybeards say they'd love to find
one and drag the main with it, just for the nostalgic helluvit. for a
modern piece of machinery that does it all in so many ways, you can't
beat our little red-or-whatever four-bangers. truly.


XS11E wrote:


> Wow, you really ARE having a senior moment! '38 Hudson Hornet? The
> Hornet came out in 1951 and in 1952 the dual carburetter "Twin H Power"
> version was introduced and Hudson became the one to beat in stock car
> racing...

Art,

I sure can ! And what a loss it was. A spectular crash . Bill was a
good driver the just ran out of time.

Bruce Bing '03 LS

Art,

You are correct about dirt track. I can remember breaking a left "king
pin" on my '37 Ford dirt car going into turn 3 up in Poulsbo Washington
in the 1950's. It sure makes an interesting turn 4 when that occures .
:-)

Bruce Bing '03 LS