Can somebody tell me what this is?

[Scream And Fly]

Looks like a V8 to me. I'd really like to know more about this strange setup.

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[CUDA]

Sure...

https://www.thehulltruth.com/boating-forum/284094-chevy-big-block-outboard.html


https://www.thehulltruth.com/boating-boat-show-photos/225928-worlds-largest-outboard.html



Dick Harrell was famous racer in the 60's through the 70's He was called Mr. Chevrolet because of his devotion to Chevy. Fords and Chrysler sponsored their drivers, but Harrell did it on his own and kicked their butts.

Dick Harrell stands out as perhaps the largest exception to that rule; after all, he both drove and built cars with incredible talent and tenacity.

Born October 4, 1932, in Phoenix, Arizona, Dick spent most of his youth in Carlsbad, New Mexico. It was in Carlsbad at the age of 14 that Harrell first slipped behind the wheel of Sprint cars and, later, stock cars. A three-year stint in the Army took him to Korea and Oklahoma and employed him as an aircraft and helicopter mechanic and gave him his first taste of drag racing. Returning to Carlsbad, Dick began drag racing in a 1956 Chevrolet at tracks hundreds of miles away and earning a reputation as a fiercely competitive and talented driver.

Still driving Chevrolets–as he would throughout his career, even when other Chevrolet drivers jumped ship–Dick graduated from amateur racer to professional in 1962, electing to remain mostly on AHRA tracks. At the time, he campaigned a 427-powered Z-11 Chevrolet, so when Ford introduced the Thunderbolt in 1964, it was only natural for Dick to respond by stuffing a Z-11 427 into a Chevelle.

“It took a real love of the sport to race three and four days a week at tracks that many times were barely paved,” wrote Matt Strong in Drag World Magazine years later. “But it was the barnstorming days on the road that earned Dick his fantastic following of loyal fans.” It also didn’t hurt that Harrell always took the time to sign autographs for his fans and to provide free racing and tuning advice to any fan that asked.

His openness with advice also likely led to the next phase of his career. When the 1967 Camaro debuted, Nickey Chevrolet in Chicago hired Dick to help the dealership develop and market a 427-powered Camaro, considered the first such conversion. According to Dick’s daughter, Valerie, it was through Nickey that he met Don Yenko, who would shortly afterward persuade Dick to convert Camaros for his dealership in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania.

His move to Yenko came about the same time Dick opened his first solo speed shop, the Dick Harrell Performance Center, at a temporary location in East St. Louis, Illinois. “Dad had a deal with Yenko to make a percentage off the performance parts he sold: headers, traction bars and various motor parts,” Valerie Harrell said. “Dad had an advantage as he was at drag races everywhere and the Funny Car was a great promotional item. As time went by, Dad was making more off the parts than Yenko was off the cars.”


He later moved his shop to Kansas City, Missouri, in early 1968, but he was in the right place at the right time when another driver named Herb Fox got lost in St. Louis in August of 1967. Fox, a drag racer sponsored by LaHarpe, Illinois, Chevrolet dealer Fred Gibb (see Hot Rod Hero, HMM#54, March 2008), stopped by Harrell’s shop for directions and noticed two 427-powered Camaros that Dick was preparing for Yenko. Upon hearing about Dick, Gibb bought the two Yenkos for resale through his dealership.

Pleased with the success of those, Gibb asked him to start dropping 427s into Chevelles, Camaros and Novas that Gibb supplied and would then sell. According to Valerie, Fox’s visit came at the right time for another reason: A falling out between Yenko and Dick that led to a court battle meant that Harrell no longer had access to dealer-ordered cars for his famous conversions; Gibb stepped in at the right time to provide those cars.

“Dick didn’t give up his independence by associating with Fred Gibb,” said Ken Boje, a Gibb historian. “It was really just a business relationship, and he kept his own business in Kansas City going throughout this time.”

Through the association with Gibb, Chevrolet asked Dick to help engineer and develop the ZL-1 all-aluminum 427 for its use in Camaros in 1969.

His own business–which he advertised as the “home of the original 427 Camaro,” had the potential to blossom, Strong wrote. “It not only appealed to those interested in drag racing but to many customers that simply trusted Dick’s reputation and wanted only the best service for their ‘grocery getter.’ The shop was equipped with the latest in diagnostic equipment and some of the nation’s top racing mechanics were trained under his personal tutorage [sic]. Dick could have become a wealthy man if he devoted his full efforts to business.”

Instead, Dick split his time between the business and his personal passion of drag racing, maintaining a healthy race schedule during this time. In fact, the AHRA named him Driver of the Year in 1969, then Driver of the Decade in 1970.

But it was also his love of drag racing that brought Dick’s life to a violent end when he crashed his Camaro fuel Funny Car during a race in Toronto, Ontario, on September 12, 1971.

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https://dickharrell.com/about-dick/

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It's been posted here before

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It's been posted here before

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Greg and I are new here.

[merccrazy]

Where is the middle finger emogi?

[David - WI]

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Greg and I are new here.

https://www.screamandfly.com/showthread.php?362733-Small-Block-on-OMC-mid&p=3346823#post3346823

[CUDA]

Thank You

I just know the name from drag racing, He was King in the time frame I was interested in drag racing.

[Krazymaan]

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Greg and I are new here.


Guess he showed you. :cheers:

[capteliminator]

Thank You

I just know the name from drag racing, He was King in the time frame I was interested in drag racing.

Thank you for what? Why not do your own search instead of being a smarty pants???:rolleyes: