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I just saw something familiar on 'Home Improvement'. Tim was racing Bob
Vila on their riding lawn mowers. Of course, Tim had souped his up. The back
view of Tim's mower showed what appeared to be one of these Turbonique units we
were talking about awhile back, complete with flames shooting out the back pipe,
and a big fuel tank off to the side. I've seen this episode many times, but have
never noticed this before.
On another note, I drove about 300 miles Monday afternoon and evening, from
western Illinois to central Wisconsin. It took about 9 hours. Most was
on U.S. interstate highways. What a pathetic mess! In many areas, no plows
were out, several inches of snow were on the road, and traffic was moving around
40mph. I know the highway budgets are in bad shape in WI, and I expect our state
& county & town roads to be maintained a bit less. But I sure thought
the Interstates would be well taken care of. It was some places, but in general
it was not.
And gas in Iowa was $ 0.20 per gallon less than at home...
Jim ACES #2020 still winter - below 0*
again tonite, and more snow in a couple of days
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Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2004 8:40
AM
Subject: Re: [Chevelle-list] Z-16 in Hot
ROD
Holy cow! and they wanted to use this on a
go-kart!
http://www.ada-interlock.com/kart/
I'm sure someone ended up as a Darwin Award Contestant.....
yenkochevelle wrote:
That is a cool article in this months Hot Rod
magazine on the Turbonique drag axle cars. For some reason they used a real
Z-16 Chevelle. This gives us Chevelle guys bragging rights to the quickest
factory stock engine car in history.The 1965 Z-16 Chevelle. It ran in the 9s with original 396 engine. Of course it had a
mini turbine on the axle for help but the rest of the car was mostly
original.
That would be a cool car for nostalgic drag racing.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 11:03
PM
Subject: Re: [Chevelle-list] Z-16 in
Hot ROD Kent:
I
have an ad from 1965 (1965 Z16 with turbo rearend) with the turbo rear
end. It bolted to the rear and produced some great ET's. according to the
ad the stock z16 produced 1350 HP to rear wheels and was officially timed
@ 149 mph @9.95 ET. the turbo-axle was produced by Turbonique, inc. Their
address was 20 North Kent Street - Orlando, Florida 32805.the ad
states that when you flip the turbo ignition to standby , your
throttle foot can call for that extra power when you need it - and you get
it instantly, because the time lapse from ignition to full turbine power
was 1/20 of a second.the time of 9.95 seconds was @ the Dallas , Georgia
Dragstrip July 24, 1965. This probably was the fastest Z16.
Larry (Z)
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