On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 2:25 PM, Ken Waller <[email protected]> wrote: > In the early 70's I was involved with a group of engineers that built a > Pinto for Trans AM, IMSA & SCCA B sedan racing. We started with a body in > white. Eliminates a lot of work & discarded pieces. > We ran a 1600 cc pushrod, 2.0L SOHC & a 2.3L SOHC in various configurations > as determined by the ruling bodies. For an independent, we did alright. Held > the B sedan track record at a local track, finished several 6 hour enduros, > one in 4th place. Never really could compete with the Datsun 510 factory > cars - too much HP among other things. > I got my regional SCCA license with it. Won overall in a regional race at a > local track in the rain. > The owner just did a ground up restoration after all these years - he'll > probably try to pedal it.
He'll likely get much better results if he "peddles" it. Mind you, it's a Pinto. Perhaps you did mean "pedal"... :-) cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
