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Photo GDR-00432

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Owner

  Charles Wilkins

Make

  Renault 4CV

Class

  Competition (Middle Eliminator?)

Driver

  Charles Wilkins

Track

 

Event

 

Photographer

  From the Charles Wilkins Collection

Year

  1962

Comment

 

This was an early attempt at a funny car - Renault 4CV on tube frame.

Used the same small block chevy from roadster (283 with 4 -2's , Crane cam) My Dad contacted Harvey Crane who was just getting started in Florida in 1960.

You could open the front doors for access to engine, and driver used the two rear doors. Neat to look at but a bear to control as it would get squirrelly at end of track. You can see one of the exhaust pipes just below front door. -- Charles Wilkins

 

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