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Cool Stromberg Photographs

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Happy New Year everyone! Here’s looking at a great 2012. We love old hot rod photos, especially with 97s in ’em. You can learn so much. So we thought we’d start the year with something cool we’ve had hanging around here for a while from our good buddy Tony Thacker, Director of the NHRA Museum. Four super-cool early, wire-wheeled, ’32-grilled hot rods, all with two high-stepping Stromberg 97s a piece. Don’t know much about them (ie nothing!) but they’re clearly pretty ancient. My money’s on the late ’40s. And clearly at some influential locations.I am sure I have seen that car in the top right photo before. That hokey, grafted-on closed car screen surround rings a bell. Early pump-in-head engine with polished ally heads, and an agricultural steering box mount – I wonder what reception you’d get with that at this year’s Father’s Day Show? The ’32 at top left has a Duvall-style screen by the looks of it. And maybe the bottom right car too – check out the chrome front spreader car, painted hubcaps, chrome head bolts and unfilled grille. This dude was styling’! I’m even wondering if those 97s are chrome….

Check out the cars in the background, too. That chopped ’36 three-window with solid hood sides is sandwiched between two other customs. The one on the left is getting the rear fenders leaded to the body, and a cool new trunk-mounted license plate treatment. You can only imagine what the customer felt about that dirty rear fender sat on his white Carson top. Enjoy…more soon…

 

Hotrod Hayride 2011

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The Hotrod Hayride is the year’s ‘must go’ weekend for many UK traditional hot rod guys and gals. Held at a real old-timey venue, just to the west of London, and combining cars and bikes with art shows, circus freak show, Burlesque, airfield drags, the infamous Wall of Death and two nights of rockin’ entertainment, it’s little wonder it has grown in popularity each year, dragging folks in from all over Europe. For the past three years, Stromberg has sponsored the Sunday morning Soapbox Derby, handing out a pair of brand new Stromberg 97 carbs to the winner, with signs, shirts and other collectibles for the runners-up. It’s a simple deal. They set up a ramp at the top of the hill. Folks build great soapboxes in wild and whacky styles and shoot it out to be first to the bottom.

To be honest we’ve never made a huge deal out of our involvement, mainly because we really go just to chill out, meet old friends, neck a few beers and enjoy the scene. Sadly this, (ie. a raging hangover), is also why my pictures of the event were few and far between and include no Soapboxes at all. So I have added a few from 2009 (didn’t remember to take any in 2010) so you can see what the heck I’m going on about. Still, I’m sure you’ll enjoy them just the same. Wanna go next year. Set your Tardis for 27th-29th July 2012. And click here for more info and tickets.

The Remington Lakester

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Not really news in a ‘new’ kinda way, but we’re moving our website home page news feed to point everyone at this Bulletin so I guess it’s new to this….you get the picture….

The important bit is that we were super proud to be involved in the recreation of Phil Remington’s 1941 lakester. Unveiled at a special party honoring Phil, who was 90 this year, at the NHRA Museum in Pomona, the blue roadster is an exact recreation by Burton, Michigan’s Dan Webb. Webb hosted the party for 400 of Phil’s closest friends, including Dan Gurney, Stu Hilborn, and… er…us.

Built in 1941 and raced at the lakes from 1946-1948, the roadster consistently ran over 130 MPH running a 21 stud Ford flathead fed by two Stromberg 97 carburetors. As Dan Webb wanted this to be a perfect recreation of the beautiful lakester, he insisted on Genuine Stromberg 97s for the beautiful new motor, built by acknowledged Ford flathead expert (and Genuine Stromberg dealer) Mike Herman over at H & H Flatheads in La Crescenta, CA.

Congratulations to Phil Remington and Dan Webb for creating and recreating one of the all time greats from hot rodding’s past. We’re proud to be a small part of it. I reckon the pictures say more about the awesome quality of the car than I possible could, so just sit back and enjoy the show….

 

Who’s Who at the Antique Nats?

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You meet at all the best folks at a Stromberg show booth. Look who rocked up to to meet us at this year’s Antique Nats.

Robert and Suzanne Williams. Don’t know who Bob Williams is? Where have you been…in prison? Google him…you won’t be disappointed. In the meantime, we’ve added a picture we found of Dick’s ’32 roadster and Suzanne’s ’34 Tudor – chopped (many years ago), by new Stromberg Team Member Rick Pearmain.

Cigar Larry McCullough, who has new Stromberg 97s on all his hot rods.

Dick Flint and Dick Winfield. Dick Flint’s bright red track nosed 1929 Ford Model A roadster needs little introduction, but here’s a pic anyway. The Glendale Sidewinders member had Valley Custom form the distinctive nose and pan,helping it run 143mph at the lakes. The car was restored by Don Orosco, winning the prestigious Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance Hot Rods Class in 1999.

Ray Salmon, who we caught installing stacks on his new Stromberg 97s at the Antique Nationals. He said his little Model A Roadster ran better than ever with new 97s  – and right out of the box, too.

Click on the small pictures for the slideshow.

 

New Stromberg TwoStep fuel lines

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Designed by us and manufactured exclusively for Stromberg, the TwoStep range combines clean, simple looks with leak-free construction and simple installation. The  1/4inch 304 stainless steel lines are bent on a smart CNC tube-bender for real accuracy and consistency, proving more than enough fuel flow, even on the 3×2 manifolds. We’ve retained the traditional Ford Nut compression fittings of course. And our unique stainless tee-pieces (shaped to match the throttle stops off our linkage parts) come with furnace brazed joints so they’re leak-free and ‘invisible’ too .

We wanted to offer the look and quality of a hand made, one-off piece, at an affordable price, but with almost every manifold for 97s putting the carburetors and fuel pump in a different place, it was quite a challenge. Suffice to say, that like every piece, we do, we carefully CAD modelled everything before manufacture so you’ve got no linkage clearance worries (typical with banjo fittings, for example), and a lot more flexibility, especially in 3×2 progressive linkage applications. Naturally, every Stromberg TwoStep fuel line comes with full instructions, but further help is available via the Stromberg Tech Center at www.stromberg-97.com.

At launch, the range covers five Ford flathead applications, for intakes and fuel pumps that are available brand new. There are lines available for the Offenhauser 2×2 regular – the 1090 intake – with the 59A or the 11A ‘pepper pot’ type fuel pumps. The Offy 1075 intake 2×2 for 8BA engines. And also the Edelbrock 1108 3×2 intake for 59A engines up to 1948 – again with two different fuel pump types.

More are planned, as development funds become available! You’ll find all these on our website  – click for Linkage & fuel delivery. And click on the pics above to view full size.