From SBC to HEMI powered TAD
Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 8:20 am
NHRA ENTRY FOR: 405 TAD Carl Magee Victoria TX '92 McKinney BAE 421.
I built his first car, pictured below, he is scratching his chin; I'm the good looking shorty with the jacket on. This was the first race for the car, my friend Bill Rogers drove it; I tuned it to Top Eliminator first time out. This was in '64, I think.
Carl sold the car about 25-30 years ago and then he spotted it at a race about 2 years ago and bought it on the spot. I saw it about 10 months ago hanging in his garage. We know it is it because when finished for some reason I mounted the steering box on the wrong side for that particular box and the wheels turned the opposite direction of the direction the steering wheel was turned; a real trick to drive.
A mounting bracket was made and welded on the front cross member for a bell crank to change the steering direction.
Also this was the first set of front spokes I ever made and these were made from fabricated pieces of steel pipe with flanges welded on and I had left some very minute pinholes in the welds that were still slightly visible after chrome plating and after some 40 years they still looked the same.
http://www.thehemi.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=905
I built his first car, pictured below, he is scratching his chin; I'm the good looking shorty with the jacket on. This was the first race for the car, my friend Bill Rogers drove it; I tuned it to Top Eliminator first time out. This was in '64, I think.
Carl sold the car about 25-30 years ago and then he spotted it at a race about 2 years ago and bought it on the spot. I saw it about 10 months ago hanging in his garage. We know it is it because when finished for some reason I mounted the steering box on the wrong side for that particular box and the wheels turned the opposite direction of the direction the steering wheel was turned; a real trick to drive.
A mounting bracket was made and welded on the front cross member for a bell crank to change the steering direction.
Also this was the first set of front spokes I ever made and these were made from fabricated pieces of steel pipe with flanges welded on and I had left some very minute pinholes in the welds that were still slightly visible after chrome plating and after some 40 years they still looked the same.
http://www.thehemi.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=905