Those Great Specials...

[Ron Mann]

wow....changed a bit! I'll have some more from about the same era.

[Ron Mann]

and here is one...In the uncropped version you can see the car is marked as a BMod car. About the same era...same hill.

[Rich Sweigart]

Joel Lipperini in the Sabol. Ex- Hap Gardner car. Minus bodywork, center seat conversion, rotary engine.

[Ron Mann]

You the man!

[Ron Mann]

Paul Furst and his Mod II Corvair. Not sure why it was classed with the modified cars...anyone?

[Joe Foering]

I believe it has a V8 in it.

[Rich Sweigart]

I doubt it was a V8, Modified 2 was for 1300cc to 2500cc engines.

[bob oswald]

If it was under 2500 it would have even been the smaller of the two available corvair engines if my memory is correct

[FV95]

How big was the Rover V-8?

[Ron Mann]

Couldn't have been as simple as an open exhaust?

Here is the winged special of Larry Long...gotta love the purpose built "wing" cars! I believe this is/was Mazda powered as well.

[Ron Mann]

Just in....from Dennis Frick. A great line up of Specials...

The Royale - Porsche of Dennis Frick
The Firand of Tim Firestone & Denny Anderson
Debaugh I or John Debaugh
Elva - Porsche of Gerry Segal
Elva Porsche of Albert & Dave Derecola

Duryea...mid 70's

[Ron Mann]

PHA veteran Jeff Whitmoyer shared some info with me pertaining to the Modified Corvairs that ran in the 70's.

" I wanted to share a little info on a V8 Corvair that was running in the mid 70's. Somewhere between 75 & 77 there was a Corvair running with a Buick/Rover V8 in it. As I recall the engine was ~3.5litres displacement which should have put the car in Mod III (as I remember classifications from that era). I also recall the car being involved in a shunt somewhere around Turn 8 or 9 at Duryea. I remember looking at the car with astonishment as it puked coolant from a crumpled radiator or punctured hose while sitting at Turn 9(off the course). Took a few minutes to figure out that it was a transplant.
As I'm writing this I'm thinking that the Mod II Corvair may have had a Porsche powerplant stuffed into it, or else was running the Turbo version of the Corvair flat 6. I don't believe there was anywhere else to put Turbo'd cars back then."

The Paul Furst car could be the Mod II car Jeff is talking about....I'll get the Mod III car ID'ed and posted ASAP.

[Ron Mann]

Well...the Modified III Corvair was run by a Pat Fetterman. Sad thing is...I have nothing more on this car or driver. 1976 season...he came in second behind Jake Symanovich at Pagoda.

[Ron Mann]

Who could forget the Blue Twister Torino of Tony Ford?!?! always a crowd favorite.

[FV195]

Now in Jack R's collection
THOR

[Joe Christ]

he Body I used to build BRAND X came from the remnants of a car that Myron Munchak had left after flying over "The Jump" at Weatherly and landing in the trees and underbrush. It consisted of many pieces which I had to re-assemble after buying them from him. I'd already built the "bird-cage" chassis and the cockpit area was 3" longer than his doors, so I extended them by that amount. The nose-section of the body also needed some NACA air-vents cut into it, behind the front-mounted radiator, to aid the air-flow through the cooling-fins. For hillclimbs, the car had only a one-gallon "weight-saving" fuel-tank because the engine could run for 6 miles on that gallon under full throttl.

Joe Christ

[Ron Mann]

welcome to the forum Joe, and thanks for the addtional insight on your car!! Here is a pix...

[Joe Christ]

Ron; BRAND X ran on MICHELIN X street-tires and, since the car was somewhat "tail-heavy", I managed to slide it off the course backwards on Weatherly's first righthand sweeper at the top of that long uphill-straight from the starting-line. The only damage to the car was that very small dent in the aluminum portion of the underbody that you can see immediately behind the left-front wheel in your photo !

Joe Christ

[dspgti]

This ebay ad is interesting. If you watch the youtube link I think there are a couple of still shots from Hershey?
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/PORSCHE- ... 240%3A1318

Dave Y

[Ron Mann]

there are some shots from Hershey in the film. The first two stills are taken at the Milton Hershey School...parking lot was used for tech.