Yes Bonneville and Loring! As I have made Lorting, Bonneville is on my list!

55 Vicky & customline

58 Rack Dump, 55 F350 yard truck, 57 F100

59 & 61 P 400's, 58 F100 custom cab, 69 F100, 79 F150, 82 F600 ramp truck, 90 mustang conv 7 up, 94 Mustang, Should I continue?

I think that Bonneville should be on everyones bucket list.

Paul J. - '57 E Code

Take a couple years and several trips to the flats to understand all of it.

Frank/Rebop

Bristol, In ( by Elkhart) 

Besides Cee/Girl it stood for C/ Gas Coupe and Sedan. Back then (no-production) this was more of a production class style which allowed blowers/superchargers with a 2 engine class bump. I surmise that this was the 259 CI which would have been in "E" but with the Latham went up to "C". "E" was under 260. "D" was 261 to 305 and "C" was 306 and above; not sure where it ended but I believe it followed today of 375. "B" was to 440 and above was "A" There was no "AA" .

Crazy, but I believe there was a time where 305 or "D" was the biggest allowable blown engine. and that ran as an "A". Another thing was the Fuel classes only allowed 1 jump in class instead of 2 like the gasoline classes.

Also Streamliners, Lakesters, (open wheel) Modified Roadsters. and Competition Coupes were Fuel (anything you wanted to run) because they were considered race cars and real race cars didn't use gasoline in the eyes of the SCTA.

In the late 60's or early 70's a superchared gas class was made for only coupes and sedans; so they did not need to have unblown and blown classes running together. Weird; It was that way when I started in 1974...............Lots of history there............JD

56 Vic, B'Ville 200 MPH Club Member, So Cal.

I'll have to say I really admire Karol Miller for his achievements. He stepped up and showed everyone what a great engine the Y was with some extraordinary tuning from his own experiences in his tech dept.( small garage behind the house ). He expelled the myths of it being a shallow breathing engine there by winding it to 7000 grand during shifts sure cleared that up at Bonneville.

-Gary Burnette-

I bet it worked too..

-Gary Burnette-

I thought that was for cee/girl. Chuck

Y's guys rule!
Looking for McCullouch VS57 brackets and parts. Also looking for 28 Chrysler series 72 parts. And early Hemi parts.

MoonShadow, 292 w/McCulloch, 28 Chrysler Roadster, 354 Hemi)
Manchester, New Hampshire

Dry lakes, what does the C/G stand for in "Bonneville talk" ? Or is that c gas from drag racing?

Frank/Rebop

Bristol, In ( by Elkhart) 

thanks for the reply DryLakesRacer. You're right I meant to say Latham!
I went back and read the story on the HAMB article again and it does mention Karol did run that setup on that car at one time, later on. So this photo is probably from later in the racing career of that Vicky. Also the exhaust thru the fender wasn't added till later. good to know my old eyes and brain haven't quite given up yet.
Sure is great to look over this old history.

       A  L  A  N   F  R  A  K  E  S   ~  Tulsa, OK    

I believe it's a Latham. He used it with his 259 inch engine. The SCTA allowed blown and unblown to run in the same class with a blower set down engine sizes. 260, 305 were 2 of the inch sizes at that time. I'll need to look up in my old rule books the others if anyone wants to know.

56 Vic, B'Ville 200 MPH Club Member, So Cal.