<VV> Re: GREAT RACE with limited Corvair content

[vairtec at optonline.net]

Early in the Great Race history, it was running a route that took it 
through Pennsylvania at the same time that I was working as track announcer 
for the United State Auto Club midget series.  I was following a midsummer 
five-races-in-five-days schedule in my Greenbrier, which was also my 
hotel.  En route from the historic Williams Grove Speedway in Pennsylvania 
to the next event (at which track I can no longer remember), several of the 
Great Race participants passed in the opposite direction.

One of the participants that year was a massive old fire truck.  I have no 
idea how large the cylinders in this vehicle's engine were, but my estimate 
is "five gallons each."  I as drove in my Greenbrier on the Interstate 
highway, I could not only see the fire truck approaching, but I could hear 
it and I could FEEL it!  I was astounded at the sound and the vibrations 
from a single vehicle on the other side of a grassy median, when I myself 
was hardly in a quiet machine.  Neat experience!

--Bob
Robert W. Marlow
Vairtec at optonline.net