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RECALLING GOLDEN TIMES.(Revs)
Byline: TERRY PARKHURST
Golden Wheels, a vintage racing fraternity celebrating the golden era of open-wheel racing, sprang forth at a funeral for a fellow racer 30 years ago. "We hardly seem to meet anymore, except for funerals,'' Pike Green recalled saying at the time. Green founded Golden Wheels, an organization in Washington state that works to keep old race cars on the track.
All of the club members' 29 machines are open-wheel, oval-track race cars. Most have been restored to the era in which they were built, many sans roll cages.
Four-cylinder Offenhausers, Ford flatheads and even a four-cylinder engine from a Chevrolet Vega are used in these cars.
"I bought it in a sack,'' said Bob McMurty, describing the original condition of his 1947 Kurtis Kraft. Fellow club member Harry Stryker did the restoration.
The double-overhead-camshaft Offenhauser in McMurty's car displaces just 1800 cubic centimeters yet produces 200 hp-outstanding for an engine design that dates back to 1935.
"I started with about 55 pieces,'' said Dick Fredell of his 1935 custom-built midget. That ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, RECALLING GOLDEN TIMES.(Revs)