Re: [AMC-list] Breedlove's LSR attempt; trivia

[Joe Fulton <piper_pa20@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

My only Indy connection is that my late wife's grandfather Bob Carey finsihed third in the 500 in 1932.  He was an early member of the 100 mph club too (finished the race with an average speed of over 100 mph).

I'm pretty confident you could contact someone at the Indy Racing Museum (or whatever it's called) and they could either provide the 60s/70s rules or put you in touch with someone who had the rules archived.

Joe Fulton


> Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:53:57 -0800
> From: tom jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>
> 
> in AMC #13:
> 
> I'd heard that from some of the Navarro people: Navarro
> 'lent' one of his
> turbo-ramblers to Breedlove for Bonneville. So apparently
> that's true.
> 
> There were TWO different turbo sixes:
> 
> * stock block, single turbo, 500 - 550 hp. Originally had a
> huge 5" Dellorto
> carburetor, then shortly the Hillborn mech. FI.
> 
> * modified block, twin turbo, 700 - 750 hp, mechanical FI.
> The major mod for this block was four bolt mains. Even the
> "stock" block had
> mods to oiling, etc.
> 
> I've got one of the single turbo, stock two-bolt mains
> block. It is 182ci.
> 
> I can't figure out where or how to read the rules for Indy
> in those years
> (67, 68, 69): for whatever class #50 was in, what were the
> displacement
> limits?  I always assumed that the 182ci was for the
> Indy rules, but it
> would be interesting if the motor I had was for the
> Bonneville car.
> 
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