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Article for Keystone Motor Club newsletter:
My 1958 Renault Dauphine, barely out of high school, and a few misadventures............

How I saw it.......

How it really was......sort of...
I had a hole in the back bumper so I could insert
a jack handle and crank it by hand........which was entertaining to watch when the battery was dead
and the car drew a crowd at the bowling alley.......

I had moved the tail lights inside and behind the grill for a "cleaner" look.....along with deleting the bumpers to save some weight....

It had a Ferlec electric clutch........pull the shift lever to the left rear of the H pattern.....
rev it up and when you let go of the gearshift, a micro switch under the floor would engage the clutch......
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Another day.......
When the Highway Patrol followed me and pulled into my driveway I parked my 53 Chevy as close to the back end of the Renault as possible, and on demand presented him with my auto registration. Since the numbers on the paper matched the tag on the 53 Chevy, He was greatful that he would not have to arrest me and work overtime.......... so greatful in fact, that he did not notice the Renault registration paper had the same Chevy tag number stamped onto it as well........

1959 Renault Dauphine

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How I drove it.....sorta.....

I recall a divided road u-turn in Charlotte North Carolina when I put the Renault up on two wheels.......a good reason to lower it....... I didn't know until that day, that swing axle cars would pivot themselves up into the air on a hard turn........

My co-pilot must have thought I was Sterling Moss since I didn't kill us both........and the car came back down
on four wheels........but he never rode with me again........

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An article for the Keystone Motor Club newsletter.
An update in 2022 says that Drag Racer Don Garlits has the Vapor Engine in his Ocala Museum....
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Years ago, legendary stock car racer Smokey Yunick made an engine run on gasoline FUMES instead of
the traditional liquid that becomes atomised and then becomes vapor/fumes and then burns.
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Smokey's engine (Seen running at a Daytona car show) may still be around unless someone bought it up and destroyed it.
The video of the vapor engine is still posted on Tampa Racing....unless someone destroyed the video.
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This video is pretty crude, and because it has no slick looking and clean fittings, and the truck is dirty, worn
and his hunting/woods truck, some people may ignore it, instead of paying attention to the principle involved.

It works on a carburetor and not on fuel injected cars.........Fuel injection SPRAYS the liquid gasoline to atomise it and then burn it.

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If you need to satisfy your car show addiction this weekend....REMINDER: Caffeine and Classics, Streetside Classics monthly automotive gathering, is this upcoming weekend! Taking place on Saturday, December 28th, from 9:00 AM until 12:00 noon! Caffeine and Classics is a fun and spirited event featuring complementary coffee, donuts and the company of fellow car enthusiasts. As always, ALL MAKES AND MODELS ARE WELCOME!
All Streetside Classics locations will be holding Caffeine and Classics events this weekend. For directions to your local showroom, click below:

• Tampa, FL

....And from Streetside, it is only a short distance to a hot dog joint where Elvis ate
in Zephyr Hills on Gall Blvd/US 301....years ago.

Thanka vera mush...... lol

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Raise your Mason Jar.........
The last American Hero is no longer with us.
..........long live Junior Johnson!

See posts 139-144...and a little more.....:
https://www.tamparacing.com/forums/g...history-4.html

There are a several more references to Junior Johnson scattered around Tampa Racing.com...but you have to go searching for them.
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NASCAR legend Junior Johnson at age 88

Images courtesy NASCAR

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When your rallye car comes in dragging a rear wheel...
I admire people who don't quit easily.

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Where Were You in ’66?

Article for Keystone Motor Club Newsletter
By D. Randy Riggs

See also post #70 Where Were You in '62?
When WE were American Grafitti.

Reading the feature stories about the 1966 12 Hours of Sebring and the birth of Funny Cars got me on a rambling rumble in my brain about the racing and automotive scene in that timeframe, hard to wrap my arms around the fact that it was 50 long years ago.



DJs were spinning tunes like “The Ballad of the Green Berets,” Winchester Cathedral,” “96 Tears,” “Last Train to Clarksville,” “Good Vibrations,” and “California Dreamin’,” which many young people were actually doing—Haight- Ashbury and all that—especially the ones living in more frigid climates and who longed for palm trees and orange groves and year-round cruising.

Up and down the boulevard, it was truly a time of change. Over on Woodward Avenue in Detroit up by Southfield and Royal Oak the muscle car scene had revved up big time, and in SoCal in Van Nuys the Bob’s Big Boy with its roller skating car hops and drive-in service was so popular on Wednesday evenings that cars filled with the young crowd would be lined up for blocks waiting for a turn to order a Big Boy and a vanilla Coke and to check out the gals or guys in the cars around them. There was also the Bob’s on Colorado Blvd. in Pasadena, Calif. that catered to the cruising crowd, which other than an occasional blast away from a stoplight, remained orderly and respectful most of the time, unlike the hooligans who came in later years and managed to get the cruising shut down by the police.

Kids weren’t into drugs as a daily ritual, and the young American’s rite of passage was geared toward the automobile. The muscle car era was at the redline, and with baby boomers entering the job market in droves (unemployment figures were the lowest in 13 years), (Pres Trump has set an ALL TIME record for low un employment 2019), the ones who had dreamed about cars they might own in the future finally could go down to their dealer and place an order for that GTO or SS 396, an L-79 Chevy II or a Ford Fairlane with a 390 or a Street Hemi in a Dodge or Plymouth. Prices ranged from $2,400 to about $2,800 for models such as these and a new Corvette Coupe was base priced at $4,295.

While the U.S. was making news on its race to the moon, other races were more local. Drag strips were popular because unlike road racing, one could take their daily driver to the strip and let it rip, perhaps coming home with a class trophy for the display case.

1966 was also the first year in which protestors in large numbers were speaking out against the war in Vietnam. Nightly reports on the news (no 24-hour news cycle then) only added octane to the fire. As support for the war waned, so did support for President Johnson. It would eventually prove to be his undoing.

The government was turning its attention toward the automobile in the interest of safety and the environment. Lap belts were now standard equipment in front seats but actual usage was about 3% and weak drunk driving laws added to the highway carnage of 48,500 highway deaths annually. Technology in terms of smog reduction was in its earliest beginnings, so air quality in certain regions of the country—particularly the Los Angeles basin—was terrible on warm summer days.

Ford’s “Total Performance” campaign was in full swing (this was the “swinging ’60s,” after all) and the GT40 had certainly worked out its bugs and walked away with the Daytona 24 and the Le Mans 24 Hour races, with a Ford X-1 Roadster taking the 12 Hours of Sebring. Mission accomplished!

The Indianapolis 500 had an unfortunate multi-car wreck on the first lap, and 11 cars were eliminated right there and then, including the Dan Gurney and A.J. Foyt entries. Richard Petty won the Daytona 500 for the second time and Jack Brabham won the Formula 1 World Driving Championship in a Brabham BT19 Repco V8, the first man to achieve the feat in a car bearing his own name.

Did I mention that hi-test was 32 cents a gallon and a week’s worth of groceries for two cost about $18? Just happy I was part of it. Were you?
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lol ..........'66? As a matter of fact Randy, I was getting my first ticket for driving without a license on my motorcycle,
Then learning the secret to driving at night without headlights (the bootleggers in NC drove with no headlights all the time) , .............and then my dad finding out that I owned a motorcycle, when he read about my court appearance .........for driving at night without headlights......

It was years later that I learned the secret to not getting stopped by the NC Highway Patrol........and if I could have just made it a little further that night to those back roads...... -Bob

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For January 18 3rd Saturday 2020, This weekend!
Confirming: we are now meeting at Winn Dixie, 7649 Gunn Highway and Van Dyke Road, East side of parking lot.

I plan to arrive early and park facing the "notch" with my
hood open to attract attention to the meeting.

Thanks to Milt Roorda for keeping the Keystone Banner and bringing it over for the meeting.
Milt always has an interesting/educational display with his car....and last meeting....Doughnuts!
Anyone bringing some coffee, orange juice, etc?
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Keystone Motor Club was founded in 2012, with our first meeting in a members garage.
For FEBRUARY 15 2020 meeting, we are waiting for a confirmation as to meeting at a members house.
No location disclosed to members until I get the confirmation.
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Saturday 25 January will be the Kumquat Festival, flea market and car show in Dade City.
Might be a good idea to arrive early to get a good parking space.

Keystone Motor Club has been invited to the Cigar City Flatheads motoring tour March 6-8 2020,
and details are in the Keystone newsletter.

Gasparilla Concours is April 17-19 Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park 600 N Ashley Drive Tampa FL 33602