One of my favorite pictures.

Bonneville Speedweek 2011 new motor

Well after a solid few months of work from myself, Max jr. and sr. at H and H Antique, and Logan Davis and Chuck at their new shop "Vintage Performance Automotive", I am happy to report that the new banger is finally together and running in the Bellytank. All test fired and broken in, she's ready to hit the salt. We loaded her in the trailer yesterday and we head out on Wed. Were still running 3 of Clives new Stromberg 97's and the Gemsa overhead cam head, but everything underneath is brand new..... Stronger, lighter etc.
Were hoping for speeds in the 160 + range. Wish us luck !!
Here's a short video:

Bonneville Speedweek 2010. "4 banger carnage"

It was not a good Speedweek for the old Henry Ford 4 cyl. The Banger Gods were not shining their blessings down upon us. We'll not all of us anyway.
The Old Crow took off like a rocket on her first run and hit 165 mph at the first mile, but it appears the stock cast iron bellhousing couldn't take the torque and decided to desecrate instead. We tried to fix it, but the shrapnel took out too many parts. Here's a pic:


The So-What racing team had it worse than us. Also on their very first run, and not even to the 1 mile, this happened:


Yes, that is,.. or was... A Winfield head. Bummer huh?

Speaking if heads,.. The Vaughan Quick & Easy team didn't have much luck keeping their head together either:

Let's hope they brought a spare, I hear the motor is fine.

I also heard that the R2 racing team of Richard Reed has 2 rods hanging out the side of their block, but I couldn't find them to take a picture. Anybody got one?

Well. That's all the news that fit to print.

The old crow in the Sacramento Antique Auto museum. I get her back in a couple weeks and then it's a mad thrash to get ready for Bonneville

Mobile photo

Old Crow

Bonneville Speedweek 2009

It was a wonderful year. My buddy Ryan popped his Salt cherry and wrote a wonderful blog about it. Here is a link, check it out:

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/?p=5827

The Redbull air races San Diego 2009

Thanks to Red Bull, I got the VIP treatment this year at the San Diego air races, and I must say, it was one of the most fantastic racing events I have ever been to, (Next to Bonneville of course.)

 The weather was fantastic, the planes were in your face, and the red bull was flowing.  Good times.   I highly recommend this event to anyone.  Try and make it out sometime.  Enjoy the pics.