Dedicated Day 2 Thread

[Salvatore]

a ratchet style of shifting?

[John Brown]

Yep, it's a racheting shifter. No way it can miss as long as you just pull back once for each gear change. The 57 Nomad was a F Gas car with a 10,000 rpm plus 287 inch engine, so the Bieber shifter eliminated the possibility of not having the gear changes happen. That could have been catastrophic.

[Salvatore]

My buddies ran a G/MP or F/G, 57 wagon back in the 70's-early 80's. 288 cubes 50 lb. flywheel, Nash 4 speed with a 3.00 first gear with a 6.17 ring and pinnion. Set the record in G/MP at Suffolk, Virginia around 1976 or so at 11.33. Don't think the Bieber really caught on around here but Modified Eliminator did.

[John Brown]

Anyone running G/MP in Pennsylvania had to be a masochist, what with Paul Blevins just down the road to contend with. My friend was running G/MP also, until NHRA started teching for windshield wipers. Seems the tunnel ram and carbs interfered with the wiper motor. The easy solution was to take off the front bumper and run gas class. Shortly after, say around 1972, he got married.... and there went the drag racing program.

[Salvatore]

yes, Paul Blevins was right here in Jersey. Lot of G/MP cars around then. Hildebrandt and Suriano beat CJ Batten in Bowling Green in 1976. Pete Smith won the class at the Sport Nats that year I believe. The Wop Shop boys in Texas were pretty fast. They had Lee Shepherd and Dave Nickens helping them. They learned to run fast with those small motors in the heat!

[4onthefloor]

My Gold BBC moroso Valve covers for the 496 Stroker motor that's going in my firbird in a Few weeks..These SCREAM "day2"

[Fast67VelleN2O]

Here is a cool item I just found in a box of parts in my garage attic. Don't remember where it came from.

Saap advance kit. Cool vintage packaging to boot.