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Martin, Hardly and expert but we did race 356 type Porsches in Gymknannas in Connecticut in the early '60's.
When people said "You're driving a Porsche, no wonder you win" We switched to decambered VW's with slight improvements and continued setting the same times.
Those early VW's and Porsches were easy to work on. One day we were sitting in my brother's kitchen when my sister-in-law, Judy. mentioned that we were getting pretty fast at pulling a VW engine. She asked us how long did it take to pull a VW engine. I looked at my brother and he looked at me and we simultaneously shrugged our shoulders.
Judy calmly picked up a stop watch sitting on the kitchen table, clicked it on and said "GO!"
With that my brother and I tore out or the house and headed for the garage where our old '57 split-window was sitting. My brother started jacking up the car with a scissors jack while I started wrenching the bolts behind the blower housing.
When Judy stopped the watch, eight minutes showed on the dial and the VW engine was sitting on the ground.
My brother was the true mechanical genius of the family and I've heard him describe setting up Porsche Carrera overhead cams and tower shafts to a local Porsche mechanic on the phone, strictly from memory.
USAF 1958-62
Dan, wow. I bet you and your brother always had the greatest of time.
Martin, I just saw him this past thursday. We sit around and remind each other of some of the crazy stuff we've done and forgotten.
I suspect there are many others out there who had interesting things happen in their life too.
USAF 1958-62