ONE HOT LUMP, PLEASE
From the archive 50 years ago: Custom Car, December 1972
Half a dozen pages ago, you’ll find Keith Lee’s story about the exploits of the much loved Stones racing team. By a strange coincidence, exactly 50 years ago Custom Car featured its first ever front cover engine pic – and was one of their engines. The 427 Chevy which helped the team’s legendary Tee Rat to become the UK’s first altered to run in the 7s, it was brought to our studio by Dave Stone and ended up being photographed for the best part of a day. The reason? Custom Car’s staff had been getting down and dirty with the whole subject of engine building – and this here article was the result. It may have dated badly, and the prices quoted in it will make you hoot, but like every item in our Archive series it’s a piece of history that helps make sense of the present – and even today, it’s an informative read by anyone’s standards
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