Sunday, November 30, 2014

Dahm bros and Winston Ranger, Life Photo.

The colour images in this post are from the Life archives.
#386 is Winston Ranger T roadster which was powered by a 248" 1941 Chev 6 cylinder
#518 Red roadster is Jimmy & Tommy Dahm modified roadster that was the December 1950 Hot Rod Mag cover car and Hot Rod of the month, feature below. The Orange #71 track roadster I am yet to id I will eventually.









Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Sowers Speed Equipment

One of my favourite dry lake roadsters is Ray Brown's '27 T, probably because he raced against the Spurgin/Giovanine roadster but also it was one of the first rear engine T roadsters.  Rear engined T roadsters would go on & dominate the modified roadster class right up to '59.

Ray's roadster ran a couple rare parts that are even rarer than the V8-60 Eddie Meyer heads and intake. These rarer than rare parts are a Sowers in/out gearbox and a Sowers crank driven water pump. If anyone has info or literature regarding Sowers speed parts please leave a comment below as I would really like to learn more about them.
Cheers
Jimmy