OT - Hill Climbing in Nebraska at the Speedster Reunion

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Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Rob Heyen - Nebraska on Friday, June 21, 2013 - 12:03 pm:

The hill climb practices are going now. So far I'm leading in the 400 cubic inch and bigger class :-)





Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Philip Berg on Friday, June 21, 2013 - 12:14 pm:

Looks like fun. This will be the second year in a row that I've missed an event in Nebraska. Always a few weeks late or early. Will be in Omaha the end of July. Not all bad I plan to pick up my Dayton wire wheels for my 16.

Keep the pictures coming.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Dave Hjortnaes, Men Falls, WI on Friday, June 21, 2013 - 01:24 pm:

Rob

Do you have any competition in your class?

How well does the K get up that hill?

Did you beat Humble Howard's time in Lucky 7?


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By John Danuser on Friday, June 21, 2013 - 06:33 pm:

Looks like it was HOT there today just like all the previous ones, no shade, sorry I missed it


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Frank Harris from Long Beach & Big Bear on Friday, June 21, 2013 - 07:04 pm:

95 degrees with a 20 or so mile an hour cross wind. The T's were about two seconds slower than the A's. Well run event but it was a shame that the timing device broke and only gave the e.t. and not the speed. But it was very accurate, so they got the figures right. They gave us readings at 60 feet and one tenth of a mile which is 528 feet.

We had a carburetor issue with a leaking float and so didn't get to make a single test run. So the first run was for the record. We only had two runs and no test because of our carburetion problems and no change in the rules for test runs. They run a tight ship.

The Model A through C engines had a lot of different classes for port, and head configuration, transmissions, and other things that the later four cylinder Fords did t o make them go fast. The T's only have two classes. Flat head and overhead valves. Cranks and other mods all run together. So a stock T runs against a C crank with a Z head with a big Winfield and nasty cam.


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Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Terry Woods, Katy, Texas on Saturday, June 22, 2013 - 02:05 am:

In most places, that's not a hill; that's someone's driveway. Even in our Gulf Coast prairies, the hill on Damon, Texas' salt dome, has more elevation than that.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Dennis Henrichs on Saturday, June 22, 2013 - 03:48 am:

Speed bump with traffic cones. :-)


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Dennis Henrichs on Saturday, June 22, 2013 - 03:50 am:

Looks like a lot of fun though.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Jim Eubanks, Powell, TN on Saturday, June 22, 2013 - 07:12 am:

My driveway is just a little steeper than that and a lot steeper if you talk to someone else that has come up it!











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Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Frank Harris from Long Beach & Big Bear on Saturday, June 22, 2013 - 08:51 am:

That picture was doctored, here is the real hill.






syeep hill


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