This why you run a blow proof bell housing and scattershield
This is the old Ron's Drive In gasser from Spokane used to run "in my young days" at the Deer Park WA strip. My memory claims this happened in 66 or 67 likely the early part of the season. I remember this was a cold miserable day, and we had retired to my 57 Chev parked along the spectator side. For some reason I was sitting in the pass seat reading a program my buddy bought. He yelled and I looked up "Ron's blew a clutch!!" ............and looked up just in time to see "junk" coming out the bottom
It says 292 this was a 265/283 Chev bored to 292
Seconds later WHAM!!! A big piece of pressure plate about 2" square had scraped nearly horizontally down the rear quarter of the Caddy parked next to us, so the piece had gone BETWEEN THE CARS
My buddy claimed a guy was hit and died later that day, but I can't find the story and don't remember
This is the old Ron's Drive In gasser from Spokane used to run "in my young days" at the Deer Park WA strip. My memory claims this happened in 66 or 67 likely the early part of the season. I remember this was a cold miserable day, and we had retired to my 57 Chev parked along the spectator side. For some reason I was sitting in the pass seat reading a program my buddy bought. He yelled and I looked up "Ron's blew a clutch!!" ............and looked up just in time to see "junk" coming out the bottom
It says 292 this was a 265/283 Chev bored to 292
Seconds later WHAM!!! A big piece of pressure plate about 2" square had scraped nearly horizontally down the rear quarter of the Caddy parked next to us, so the piece had gone BETWEEN THE CARS
My buddy claimed a guy was hit and died later that day, but I can't find the story and don't remember
