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El Mirage in Russetta Timing Associ- promote speed parts like Harman ation competition. Hernandez’s and Collins camshafts and an Edelheads, manifold and ignition lead brock manifold and heads. The car plate came from Offenhauser and was the Burke/Francisco streamliner were teamed with a Winfield cam that Wally Parks drove to 153 mph in and Kurten ignition system. The catalog listed Weiand manifolds and heads made for Fords, Mercurys and Studebakers and Navarro, Meyers and Cyclone heads for FoMoCo V8s, but there were other choices on other pages, such as Knudsen’s go-fast goodies for the Ford six and Tattersfield dual intake manifolds for inline Chevrolets, Chryslers and De Sotos. The Harman and Collins cams for Ford and Mercury V8s, Ford sixes, Chevy stovebolts and Lincoln, Mopar and Studebaker engines were listed. The fastest car that had ever run at a The 1949 Bell catalog sold SCTA meet up to that exhaust headers and hop-up time was another vehi- parts for the Ford 6. cle pictured in the catalog. It was used to
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1948. Winfield offerings in the Bell catalog included speed equipment for the Ford V8-60 engine that was used in many oval track racing cars. These
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