'Way back when', late 50s early 60s, there was a man here, in the NW, racing a '55 Chev, don't remember if it had 265 or 283 cu. inch motor. The story was it had a 'Racer Brown' cam, meant to be used in a limited class hydroplane. Of course the motor had pistons, headers, carburation, everything done right, and 4.56 gears. He was very knowledgeable, worked as a mechanic, a frequent winner and well respected. The tachometer he used, maybe because of limited availability only went to 8,000 RPM. So the story was he turned the motor to 8K , count to three, then shift. He thought that he was getting about 10K RPM out of that Chevy motor. Some said he would lift the left front tire off the ground, the first wheely I remember. One thing I know for a fact is he, like many others at the time, he
drove the car to work daily. It was the only car in the family. The shop he worked in was broke into, the only thing stolen was his tool box, shortly after, he disappeared. I was hired, a real rookie, about 20 yrs. old. It helped pay for college, I certainly didn't replace him. My brother saw him about 20 years later, at 'the drags' in Florida. My brother managed and 'wrenched' the Bubble Up car '240 Gordy' Bonin drove.
