I thank you for the lead on the book! Ruchard Hollywood's
car, very nice ride! I approched him while he was running
at 199 at that meet. If memnory serves me right he was stuck
at that speed and needed 1 mph for a record and the 2 club.
begged hin to close off a bunch of holes in the car for 1
pass same as we did in the Winston cup stuff for qualifing.
That is a really well done car, very nicely built.
Dave
> Chris R Harris wrote:
>
> Dave & List,
> tracked an old copy of John Wyer's book
> "The Certain Sound" on Barnes & Noble's website
> www.bn.com under the "rare, 2nd hand & out of print"
> section. Huge price at 337 UK pounds.
>
> Another of my favorite old books of a very interesting
> automotive engineering nature is "Lucky All My Life" by
> Harry Weslake, the so called Wizard of Air. He is
> credited as the developer of the flow bench, due to
> inspiration watching his father calibrate old domestic gas
> charge meters with a flow rig for that purpose.nIn later
> years became involved with Dan Gurney and jointly formed
> Anglo American Racers AAR and built a very promising V12
> F1 style engine that showed promising undeveloped
> performance against the all dominant DFV Cosworth of the
> day. For various reasons project became stillborn and
> Gurney changed AAR to mean All American Racers. The Gurney
> Weslake small block Ford heads came out of their original
> partnership. Any one out there got a set or had anything
> to do with these now rare, very collectable items ?
>
> No Dave didn't make that international meet back then at
> Gairdner, certainly heard all about that great
> Cossie Lakester you were involved with, I believe the
> timers were your nemesis on that occasion. Was very
> involved with Richard Hollywood's yellow 64 Ford Falcon
> C/GALT that ran there however.
>
> Chris Harris NZed.
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