Lots of good reading here. Like to read about other guys introductions to Inlines. Mine was kinda inherited as my dad use to race a '39 Chev coupe with a 270"GMC in it at the local oval tracks. He also towed with a '39 Chev coupe that was powered with a "Jimmy" because you never know when you would need extra parts. I remember the story of the race car that needed a rad one nite to make it to the feature. Many a night he would be flat towing the car home and somebody had to try and beat him him thru the light. I don't ever remember getting beat but I am sure there must have been someone at one time. My brother like to do the Sat. evening "drags" out at some desolate strip of highway with all the local hot rodders. His ride was a '54 Chev 2 dr sedan with a 261 bored .090" over, larger valves, cam, headers and 2 carb intake along with the old 4 speed Hydro trans from the pickup trucks. Man, when that thing shifted with your foot in it, you were back against the seat. Biggest fun with it was when the racing was done and he had beat up on a couple of 300HP 327 4 spd Impalas and 390 cu in Galaxie's, he would lift the hood to show them what they had been beat by. My '40 Chev street rod started out with a stock 250" Inline with a Saginaw 4 spd and it worked great until we started towing a 30' house trailer and I thought I needed a V8. Sadly it is still in the '40 but will be changed. In the meantime, the '54 Bel Air HTP custom that I bought has the correct motor(250 with the 4 spd, headers and a 4bbl) and my pickup truck has the 292 with 5 spd and my oval race car has a 250 Inline in it. Heck, even the wife's pride and joy has an Inline (1972 MGB Roadster). My son thinks a little different, we will have to work on him some more.
It's like the other guys were saying, it is real nice to be different and get away from the "belly-button" motors.
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Ontario Inliners
1940 Chev Sedan
1954 Chev Custom
1965 Chev Pick-up
