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Registration opens for the London to Brighton Run


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https://www.hemmings.com/blog/2017/...ns-for-the-london-to-brighton-run/?refer=news


The Bonhams London to Brighton Veteran Car Run is the world’s longest-running motoring event, and an annual celebration of the gift of freedom that automobiles have given us. Entry registration for this year’s run, which takes place on November 5, is now open for all pre-1905 vehicles. Organizers are putting a special focus on French motoring, and would like to welcome as many French marques and participants as possible. Registration is also open for the open-top bus tours that follow the run, providing transit from London to Brighton and back again.

London to Brighton commemorates the Emancipation Run held on November 14, 1898, to celebrate the passage of the Locomotives on the Highway Act, which raised the speed limit in Britain from 4 MPH to 14 MPH. (Though a requirement that automobiles be preceded by a man on foot and carrying a red flag had been done away with in 1878, the law overturned in 1898 is often referred to as the “Red Flag Act.”)

The event takes place on public roads between London and Brighton, often following the same route as the original. Owners from all over the world and all walks of life converge on London for this event, united in their enthusiasm for these pioneering machines, while spectators line the 60-mile route, cheer them on.
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:D:D
 
I haven't seen the whole thing...


I lived in Houston. We drove up to Alvin in a '54 Chevy truck. Talk about a rough ride.
 
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http://www.enginelabs.com/news/the-...&utm_campaign=the-magnificent-mopar-max-wedge

In 1963, the musclecar wars were raging and engine power was everything. In January of that year, the Beach Boys recorded “Shut Down” – a song about a drag race between a 1962 Super Stock 413 Dodge Max Wedge and a 1963 fuel-injected Corvette Stingray, and that pretty much summed up the action on American streets and strips for the era.

Drag racing was the hot competition, and every American automaker wanted to win NHRA titles in the factory stock classes. No expense was too high to put muscle on the strip. That commitment led to some legendary low-production factory-built racing cars
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If you wanted the real drag racing weapon, you had to specify sales code 09. You got the 426 with two carbs at 13.5:1 compression and rated at 425 horsepower and 480 pound-feet of torque. With this code, the engine internals were beefed up and you got a 320-degree cam and a special free-flowing exhaust that was quite loud. Oddly, both of these engines were called Stage II, there was no Stage I engine.

In addition to the engine, you could get the Dodge 330 or Plymouth Savoy with lightweight aluminum front bodywork, a hood scoop, absolutely minimal interior. The battery was even moved to the trunk for better weight transfer. With this engine, you could go straight from the dealer showroom and run the quarter-mile in the low 12s at about 116 MPH.
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Now them's wuz sum wheelz!!!
 
Rightguide said:
The 413 was a great engine but when it came to U.S. 1962 Nationals SS/S Eliminator, Ramchargers best 413 was beaten by Hayden Proffitt's Cone Chevrolet 409 Bel-Aire, It's best run was 12.17 119 MPH.
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See the 409 parts article back a page or so - the Edelbrock heads for it.


For a Mopar big block, for two grand, I can buy a set of CNC ported aluminum heads that'll out-breather anything that Max ever Wedged out. One has to be a fool not to be able to build 400 horses with a two-valve v8. Half again is well with possible.


LIVINRFANTASIES said:
:D:D:D:D The best picture on Lit !;)

We had a set of SHARP heads and a SHARP dual carb manifold and reason to have it on the 46 Mercury coupe.
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I enjoy your contributions to this-here thread. Welcome here, and welcome to Lit - such as Lit is. I can't find my icepick, but I know where my boot daggers are . . . . ;)


4est_4est_Gump said:
You people crank me up...
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I could write that you are the official crank(y old injun), forged on the anvil of Intolerable Oppression, Hammer-wrought by Travesty and Injustice as wielded by Da Man, all heated by the fires of Hellish Cruelty . . . but you'd either sink into the morass of self-pity . . .


or you'd be so damn smug we wouldn't know what to do with you.


Ours is officially my logest running conversation ever . . . .

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As a symbol of space age forward thinking, the Studebaker Avanti was intended to be the bolt of lightning that would help the company change its image and prove to buyers it could make fun, exciting, technologically advanced cars. Although the effort ended in failure, the Avanti certainly didn’t fall short when it came to styling, originality and performance.

The Avanti was Studebaker’s first all-new body style since 1953. The unique, wedge-shaped body with sharp lines sat on a modified Lark Daytona convertible chassis. The under-the-bumper radiator air intake and round headlight design gave the Avanti a facial expression all its own.

Three engine alternatives were offered: the base R1 power plant, the supercharged R2 and the seldom-seen and expensive R3. The R1 was 280-cid/240-hp V-8. The R3, although garnering a great deal of publicity, was an extremely rare commodity. The R2 was readily available and (at $210) not terribly expensive. It offered a different brand of performance from the 400-plus-cid V-8s generally available in the mid-1960s.

While the R2 lacked the brute force of other muscle cars, the use of a supercharged and relatively small V-8, along with clever and resourceful use of existing Studebaker components, resulted in an American car that needed no apologies or alibis for either its acceleration or handling.

Officially listed as a 1963 model, the Avanti received a tremendous publicity boost through the successful assault upon existing American records by an R3-engineered Avanti in August. Among the new marks established was a two-way Flying Mile mark of 168.15 mph. Early in 1963, a four-speed-equipped R2 Avanti that was almost completely stock, except for its exhaust system, averaged 158.15 mph through the measured mile.

The R2 Avanti engine was based on Studebaker’s V-8, which had entered production in 1951 with a displacement of 232 cid and 120 hp. By 1963, this V-8 had evolved through several displacement changes and for the R2 had reached 289 cid. A sealed Carter AFB four-barrel carburetor was used in conjunction with a Paxton SN-60 centrifugal supercharger. Due to the supercharger, the compression ratio of the R2 was at 9.0:1 — lower than the R1’s 10.25:1. Output of the R2 was impressive: 289 hp at 5200 rpm and 330 lbs.-ft. of torque at 3600 rpm.
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