Yep- - - - -"There's no substitute for cubic inches!" There's a modern corollary to that one, which I coined while building round track and pull truck engines- - - - -"There's no substitute for cubic dollars!" [snip]
Jerry
"There's no substitute for cubic dollars!"
Seen painted on the door of a Peterbilt towing a racecar trailer in the pits at Bonneville Speed Week a decade or so ago. Jerry, didn't you live in So. Cal before that? Maybe he copied you.
Bonneville is a real trip for gearheads like us. Made friends with the owner of a 34 Ford from Portland OR with a built 270 Jimmy. His way beautiful and much lighter daughter at the wheel. They limit it to 4800 RPM after they scattered one on the salt at 5500RPM. 170 something MPH two way average IIRC. The flies were terrible and lived in my camper for months till they froze.
