Currie's duece street roadster was powered by a
monster 706 big block - a barn door ought to go that
fast with that many cubes! In '02 Thacker & Shine
dropped a Bill Mitchell 427 small-block in their
roadster, drove it from L.A. and ran 181.xxx Not a
record & not 200 but not too shabby!
Ed
--- Flowbench@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 10/21/04 5:12:32 PM Pacific
> Daylight Time,
> Jimwprice@aol.com writes:
>
> > Does any one know if another car has driven as far
> as the 553 Roadster did
> > this year to set a record over 200?
>
> Frank Currie drove his roadster from Anaheim to the
> salt, got a timing slip
> of 205 or so THEN drove it to Plesanton for a street
> rod event. By the way he
> installed the roll cage at the salt, spun the car a
> couple of time at 195 or so
> then put Duane McKinney in the car for the time slip
> of 200+. The year?
> around '93? Dan, Glenn, anyone?
> Mike
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