Great information, Jerry!!!! Hope you're getting all this racing history written down somewhere, sure would make for good reading when folks are trying to remember how things really were!!!! Back then nobody had access to wind tunnels, just had to figure it out! You guys had something of an advantage there being in the flying biz you were aware of what the air could do for you---and against you!!!!

We used to play with cowl induction in the mid 60's, though quite by accident!!! We were running a '57 Ford with a bad hood latch. Banging second gear would occasionally undo the latch and allow the hood to pop up to where the safety catch would hold it---and for some reason the car ran faster on those passes!!!! I remember Dad saying that it must have something to do with that cold air getting into the carb air horn somehow....We had no idea that the base of the windshield was a low pressure area and it would draw air into the carb, we just knew it made the car faster!!!!

Neat trick with the Saran Wrap on the wing tips! Definitely know what you mean on the extra weight! One night while racing a Super Mod on dirt, we put all the mud we scraped off the car after the heat race into a bucket---dang thing was HEAVY!!!! Some people even asked why we wasted time trying to "clean" the car between the heat and the feature seeing as how it was just going to get dirty again anyway!!!!! Dad told everybody that's why they let me drive the car, I was the lightest!!!