
Ben D'Pietro, circa 63/64 from Popular Hot Rodding Magazine, May 1964. Benny ran a 52 Kaiser Henry J in A/Gas with Pontiac Power. It had a 62 or 63 SD 421 bored or stroked (or both) to 440 c.i. He ran a Racer Brown roller cam with perhaps Jahns pistons and Hilborn injection. Car had a B&M Hydrostick cast iron 4 speed automatic with 33 Studebaker front end and 57-64 Pontiac Olds rear. I believe he used to match race a blown Vette. They used to give the Vette the head start. Bennie was still into cars as of May 2007, alive and well in his 80's. This car and some of the motor stuff was floating around the Mass/RI area in the early to mid 80's. There was a finned aluminum valley cover installed after this picture. Oddly enough, the finned valley cover was raised and flat on top and would clear very few induction systems. With the Hilborn, you had to mill out the fins under the barrel valve bracket to clear!