[Lee]

We recently put our house up for sale, and quickly got an offer. According to the realtor, when the wife (buyer) walked into my house, saw the collection of old Hot Rod magazines, a camshaft on a shelf, then went into the garage and saw the T/A, the Cutlass, tool boxes, tools, degree wheels, ...., and about 70 end-tags from custom ground cams on the wall, she felt like her grand father had guided her here and decided this is the house she had to have.

I wasn't sure who she was or who her grand father was, at first. I was just told that her granddaddy was in the Hot Rod Hall of Fame. It was a few days later that I got the whole story.

I haven't got to meet her yet, as they live in a different state at the moment. We should be closing in a few weeks, so that will probably be when we will first meet. Anyway, I thought it was kinda cool to have a connection with somebody like Chet, and even more so with our respective interests in camshafts.

[PontiacJim1959]

Wow, very cool coincidence. Chet Herbert used to advertise his cams in the back pages of hot rod magazines. In my early 20's (about 1978) I wrote Chet Herbert a letter looking for a solid cam for my 2 x 4 409CI engine I was building. He wrote me back a hand written letter. Told me he had the perfect grind for my engine and a new blank he could grind it on. I think it was $49.00 back then? That cam made that 409CI talk and pulled like a freight train from 2,500 RPM's and on up with no let up. I usually broke an outer factory valve spring (dual spring set-up) once I got past 6,500 RPM's, but that cam/engine was still pulling hard and fast. So I set my Mallory rev-limiter tach and its red shift light at 6,400 RPM's. Remember those? LOL

[mgarblik]

Originally Posted by Lee

We recently put our house up for sale, and quickly got an offer. According to the realtor, when the wife (buyer) walked into my house, saw the collection of old Hot Rod magazines, a camshaft on a shelf, then went into the garage and saw the T/A, the Cutlass, tool boxes, tools, degree wheels, ...., and about 70 end-tags from custom ground cams on the wall, she felt like her grand father had guided her here and decided this is the house she had to have.

I wasn't sure who she was or who her grand father was, at first. I was just told that her granddaddy was in the Hot Rod Hall of Fame. It was a few days later that I got the whole story.

I haven't got to meet her yet, as they live in a different state at the moment. We should be closing in a few weeks, so that will probably be when we will first meet. Anyway, I thought it was kinda cool to have a connection with somebody like Chet, and even more so with our respective interests in camshafts.

That's a really cool story. Sounds like it was meant to be.

[tom s]

When I was very young and just getting into the pontiac racing I lived a couple blocks from Chets shop in Anaheim.I used to stop by and talk to him about cams for them.Very cool guy.Tom

[Lee]

I'll have to give her the link to this thread, when I finally get to meet her in person :-)

[Chief of the 60's]

Tell Doug, Greg from Oddy's (in NY) says hi.

[johnta1]

That's cool, Lee!
This is Doug's daughter then?
I always liked him in Top Fuel, sad day when his sons died.


Where are you moving to now?

[Jim Moshier]

That is a very cool story!!

[Lee]

Originally Posted by johnta1

That's cool, Lee!
This is Doug's daughter then?
I always liked him in Top Fuel, sad day when his sons died.


Where are you moving to now?

Doug is her uncle, her mom is Doug's sister. Snooping on the internet, I found pictures of her with Doug's sons (RIP).

I'll still be in the Houston area, just outside of Crosby, a teensy bit closer to the track in Baytown :-)

[Mr Anonymous]

Some things are just meant to be.

I used his 01B grind in a daily driver, low compression olds 350. That thing ran good for what it was! I put the 03N in another, it was very respectable. Mail and money orders back then!!