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Show , -s,i - - r"' - I" ; " " r, t fry. . frA Bill and David Wilson, teenage sons of Mrs. Doris Lyman, work on drag racer in the driveway workshop of their horns-. The youths 'have built the car from parts of three vehicles, and hope to have it is Sunday's Sun-day's races at the old airstrip track. They are assisted by Ron Cassetari, who will drive the car Sunday. (Spencer Photo) Moab Youths Find Education, Fun in Dragster Competition Once the racing bug gets into your blood stream, you're a gonner, according to 15 and 1(5 year old Bill and David Wilson, sons of Mrs. Doris Lyman, of Moab. The boys contracted the fever from their late step father, Burns Lyman, who began teaching them the intracacies of building drag racers last year. Now both may usually be found in their carport, pulling gadgets off cars to trans-fed trans-fed to their 27 T-Roadster which they hope will be a winner at the races next Sunday. There's more to souping up a drag racer than pulling pull-ing off the fenders and giving it a name, the boys have learned over the past year. They have both averaged aver-aged two or three hours a day for the past two summers sum-mers as they tinkered with their pet vehicle, and now have an estimated $5,000 tied up in it. Yet neither will be at the wheel Sunday. Ron Cas-seft'ari, Cas-seft'ari, 'a '9-' ''year veteran vet-eran of the track, will pilot the car for them, and has been on band to lend a hand when rfeeded during its fabrication.. The Wilson boys' B-Al-tered 427 Chev. Powered Drag Racer, as yet unnamed, un-named, started as a 34 Ford Coupe, a 427 Chev., and a 27-T Roadster. They transferred the engine, tires, and rear end transmission trans-mission into the '27 chassis, chas-sis, added a pair of special spec-ial IOV2 inch "slicks", on the rear wheels. The Chev. engine was souped up with a manafree induction system, sys-tem, and: now has a rated h.p. of 700 that will turn 11 seconds in a quarter of 120. The engine has cyclone cy-clone headers, with heavy duty 4-speed Munsey trans mission. These are just some of tihe intricate installations common to a drag car, which often sports an investment in-vestment that would put a luxury car to shame. But their take-off power and speed on the track would do likewise. Bill and Dave have spent two or three hours each day for the past two summers sum-mers working on their car. and once it gets on the track, their time and S5, 000 investment is uncovered uncov-ered by insurance. Neither boy will be driv- ing Sunday, but they'll be on hand to root for Cas-settari Cas-settari when he competes with such veteran contenders contend-ers as Dwaine Russell, of Grand Junction in his 327 Chev. fuel injected "Red Baron." Nor will, they take lightly the threatening threaten-ing competition of Whitey Shoffner, also of Grand Junction, when he brings out his '51 Ford Anglia, with 327 port injection. Competition at the Moab drags is getting more fierce with each race, the Wilson boys note, as more and more ears are attracted attract-ed from upstate .and south, into New Mexico. But the Wilson boys will not have too much time to fret between be-tween now and race time, they have much work to do before their racer is ready for the track. What do they gain from their work. "Mostly how to do things for ourselves," Dave says. Bill is looking forward to a racing career and wants to be a mechanic..;,.. mech-anic..;,.. Just building a car doesn't make you a mechanic, mech-anic, though, both boys agree.. There's much to learn about the inside of engine mechanics. Right now they still call on Cas-setitari Cas-setitari for inside work. The Wilson boys racer will be blue, and will probably pro-bably have a name, by race time Sunday. Time trials are set for 9 a.m.; eliminations at 1 p.m. The public, of course, is invited. |