[Dan Case]

In 1973 I went to the IMSA sports car races at Talladega (the days immediatley before the 500 Nascar race) as a crew member on a L88 powered (gulp!) Camaro. Bob Christenson (owner driver) was racing against among others Peter “Perfect” Gregg in his works Porsche and Charlie Kemp in his COBRA II. I recall two V-8 cars with Webers. Kemp with his 351 Cleveland using 48 IDA somethings and a Corvette (Ex Jobe I think) with side drafts. The Corvette had an aluminum headed 427 (Chevy of course) with a side draft Weber system that looked much like the prototype that Phil Remington made for that 260 Cobra engine except bigger. That means it also looked like the side draft system on Corvette Grand sports. The linkage sure was complicated looking. I think they were 58 mm carbs. That looked gigantic. That Corvette was one of the loudest cars there between the Webers and sewer size headers.

It rained during the main race. The Weberized cars did not do so well as the weather changed from sunny dry to southern down-pour. These guys were hitting upwards of 160 mph (on racing rain tires) in the driving rain!!!!!