[VCho455]

Originally Posted by post toastie

Mickey Thompson Challenger engines

Exhaust gaskets are a real B!$#@.

[misterp266]

Better when blown!

[Jack Gifford]

I wonder if the four gauges are oil pressures?

[Jack Gifford]

Originally Posted by post toastie

Mickey Thompson Challenger engines

Among the pieces I bought from Mickey (40 years ago) was a Cragar timing cover. According to Fritz Voight the strange 5-bolt pattern on the front of it was for a Harman-Collins mag that they used on each of the unblown Challenger.'s engines. Did H-C mags have 90-degree drives, as shown in the picture? The ones I remember from flathead days mounted flat at the front of the cam, just like the Ford distributor did.

[Baron Von Zeppelin]

Originally Posted by misterp266

Better when blown!

4 of those sumbiches . BadAss x 4 = Mickey Thompson

[camerjeff]

I wonder how this happened? I think the convertible top is still raised and attached to the front half of the Vette?

[Baron Von Zeppelin]

That is pretty wild carnage..
Even ripped the chassis in half ?

[north]

My uncle had new vetted every two years (the family bachelor) through the 60’s and 70’s. He crashed a few of them (he has narcolepsy) and it didn’t take much to total those plastic classics.

He managed to not kill himself in those crashes somehow but the cars sure disintegrated even by lousy standards of 60’s car safety.

[400 4spd.]

Originally Posted by camerjeff

I wonder how this happened? I think the convertible top is still raised and attached to the front half of the Vette?

Like Baron said, it ripped the frame in half. Where it tore away (forward of the "kick ups" that are rot prone) there are body mounts that secure the body below and behind the door jamb. The mounts for the top frame are above that body mount, so when the frame broke away it took door jambs and the body portion that the top frame attaches to. So the entire top assembly stayed with the main body.