The First Fuelie

[Joseph T.]

VIN # 10..The Tom MaCahill..Zora Duntov Pilot Car.

[Alexander C.]

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Awesome! Thanks for sharing!

More info, more pics?

Alex

[Loren L.]

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Perhaps we should all go back to the Vete Vues (?) articles that "presented" this car, with particular attention to the article's "Time Built" statements as opposed to the actual '56 time built schedule from Jim Frakes and the confirmation by Tom Parsons of that schedule

[Stuart F.]

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Saw this beauty at the winter meet. Awesome!

Stu Fox

[Stuart F.]

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BTW, I have a copy of the Mechanic's Illustrated magazine with the Tom MaCahill article, and another car mag with an article written by Zora himself about this car. I should say "had" as I loaned them to Doug Marion for a future "Back in the Day" article.

Stu Fox

[Terry M.]

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BTW, I have a copy of the Mechanic's Illustrated magazine with the Tom MaCahill article, and another car mag with an article written by Zora himself about this car. I should say "had" as I loaned them to Doug Marion for a future "Back in the Day" article.

Stu Fox

Stu,

Give my best to Doug. I am pleased to hear he is sill in the trade.

Terry

[Joseph T.]

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Perhaps we should all go back to the Vete Vues (?) articles that "presented" this car, with particular attention to the article's "Time Built" statements as opposed to the actual '56 time built schedule from Jim Frakes and the confirmation by Tom Parsons of that schedule

Loren

Bob Lutz assigned his executive assitant to help me on the Nassau car. In one of the emails from Bob..he mentioned the " 1955 Fuelie ". Maybe they were using an early Rochester prototype..or a Mercedes early injection unit.

I wonder if Art has anything on it.

Interesting!

Joe

[Bruce B.]

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The #10 first fulie car was at Bloomington and it looked as good as usual.
I love the air cleaner.

[Don Y.]

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Maybe they were using an early Rochester prototype..or a Mercedes early injection unit.

Joe

The early Mercedes-Benz mechanical injection used an in-line pump that is similar in appearance to a heavy duty diesel truck injection pump. I can't imagine anyone ever attempting to hang one of those on a Blue-Flame 6. I don't know how you could get one hung on a small block.

[John H.]

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The early Mercedes-Benz mechanical injection used an in-line pump that is similar in appearance to a heavy duty diesel truck injection pump. I can't imagine anyone ever attempting to hang one of those on a Blue-Flame 6. I don't know how you could get one hung on a small block.

And the Mercedes system was direct injection into the combustion chamber, not conventional port injection.