In a message dated 11/30/00 4:23:17 PM Pacific Standard Time,
rjl6n@cstone.net writes:
<< At 10:24 AM 11/30/00 -0500, EISANDIEGO@aol.com wrote:
> Apparently VARA allows him to run this particular car. Does anyone know
>whether the V8 Buick conversion was run competitively before 1972? I have
>seen one Devin with other V8 which was claimed to have been raced prior to
>1972. I recall that it was a corvette block, but I do not trust my memory
any
>more.
The Devin SS used a Chevy block and was definitely raced long
before 1972. They are pretty rare and rather expensive now.
>>
"The guy" running in VARA is Pancho Kohner. His yellow Devin runs a Buick
motor and it's beautiful and fast, but "a handful in the corners"...with
understeer I imagine! I know he bought the car a while ago and hasn't changed
the setup.
For Devin background, see a story in 6/89 Victory Lane (all I have is bad
photocopies of Pgs 58 & 60, sorry). I was researching info on Ak Miller's
Devin-Ford Pike's Peak racer available 4 years ago. What a Frankenstein!!!!
Model A front end and '56 Ranchero rearend. It was powered by a Ford 406 cid
V-8 (long gone) when it won the Hillclimb in 1962. Time and "street
modifications" hadn't improved it.
The article also mentions that Dean Moon campaigned a Devin bodied dragster
"Moonbeam" with a 640 HP supercharged engine that ran over 200mph on the
Bonneville salt flat and Andy Granatelli set drag race records with a
supercharged Devin C (Corvair power I think). Bottom-line: Anything goes
in(to) a Devin!
John Frymark
Triumph-powered TR4A
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