The Legendary Bustle Bomb - Hot Rod Network. Things are never obvious at the beginning of anything—especially drag racing. Yeah, early drag racers understood the key to accelerating quicker was to increase displacement or reduce weight. They weren’t dummies. But they didn’t have 6. Drag racing in the middle of the last century was sort of a Wild West frontier of increasingly radical ideas. One of those ideas was the twin- engine “Bustle Bomb.”“I remember the first time it showed up. DBT TO RELEASE LIVE LP FOR RECORD STORE DAY 2017. In the summer of 2016 Drive-By Truckers recorded seven songs live with no overdubs at New York City’s legendary. 3D Daleks and TARDIS artwork and animations from Doctor Who, along with trivia, guides, games and lists of stuff. Concert in the Park, Summer Concert Series in Town Square 2017! Town Square Park (Nr Fountain), Schaumburg Rd & Roselle Rd, Schaumburg, http:// Poster. Giovanni Giorgio Moroder (Italian: [dʒoˈvanni ˈdʒordʒo moˈrɔːder]; born 26 April 1940) is an Italian singer, songwriter, DJ and record producer. ![]() Everybody was oohing and aahing that anyone would go to the trouble of putting two engines in a car the way they did.” — Art Chrisman. Bustle Bomb Mythology. Just about every student of early drag racing knows about a guy named Lloyd “Scotty” Scott who built this crazy- looking contraption with an Olds engine up front and a Caddy in the back. It showed up at the Santa Ana Drag Strip in the 1. Then it went to some big meet in the Midwest and went 1. As the legend goes, the Bustle Bomb set records practically every time it rolled off the trailer. The Bustle Bomb tale ends with it and its madman keeper seemingly disappearing into thin air, leaving a lot of questions unanswered. The truth is Lloyd “Scotty” Scott didn’t drop off the map; he moved to Spokane, Washington. As luck would have it, Scotty’s widow kept a scrapbook, which was basically a highly detailed montage made up of photos and just about every press clipping published about the Bustle Bomb and the events in her husband’s racing career. The Bomb Factory. Born in Detroit in 1. Scotty grew up in Long Beach, California. Eager to join the Army Air Forces, but unable to due to his age, he stated on his enlistment papers that he was born in 1. My mother didn’t even know when he was actually born,” says Diane Bignall, Scotty’s youngest daughter. It even says 1. 92. She offers a good reason why he enlisted early: “He didn’t have a good upbringing. He wouldn’t talk about it.”The Army stationed him at Spokane Air Depot, now Fairchild Air Force Base. During his service, he met Phyllis Moody, an accomplished pianist on the USO circuit. They married in 1. I first met the guy [through] the Spokane Roadster Racing Association,” says Jack Hordemann, Phyllis’ second husband. He built a 1. 92. Model A touring car and ran up at Deer Park.” In late 1. Scott family moved to Long Beach. He worked numerous jobs, among them as a mechanic during the day and then at night as a machinist in the aircraft industry.“[The place Scotty was working] was running this great, big vertical lathe, so he’d show up before his shift and watch the guy running it. When a chance came to take that job, he was ready for it. There was this other guy who worked there who knew Scotty didn’t know what the hell he was doing, Noel Timney. Timney was so awed by Scotty’s gall that he took him under his wing and taught him.”Meanwhile, Scotty found a spot in the drag- racing movement, at one point joining Larry Shinoda and Harvey Goldberg to drive the Chopsticks Special, the team’s 1. Ford roadster. In fact, Scotty drove that car to 1. Initially, what became the Bustle Bomb project actually included Shinoda, but his rapture to Ford in 1. That left Scotty, Timney, Goldberg, George Smith, and Harold Allison. The Bustle Bomb stood out for more than its unorthodox engine combination; it was one of the first purpose- built dragsters featuring a fully tubular space frame rather than a chassis adapted from a passenger car. Though radical, this construction now seems logical in light of its builders’ employment in the aircraft industry. The Bomb’s platform consisted of a ladder frame of sorts, each rail made from a round tube stacked upon another and the gap plated with steel sheet welded along the length. Four lateral tubes connected the individual rails. A feature in the August 1. Drag News mentions chrome- moly reinforcements throughout.“Those were scrap pieces left over from the triggers my uncle was making,” Lonnie Timney reveals. His uncle, Allen, founded Timney Triggers, a renowned firearms- component manufacturer where Noel Timney worked occasionally. Aircraft practices appear everywhere in the Bustle Bomb. A hoop sprouted just behind the seat. A tube emerged near the back of the engine and ran diagonally up to the seat hoop. Another tube mounted diagonally from the back of the framerail to the same point on the seat hoop, effectively turned the frame into a large truss. Another hoop emerged where the front diagonal members met the framerails. That held the mounting plate for the front engine. While that seems pretty standard issue today, it wasn’t in 1. An adapter on the backside of the engine plate coupled the front engine to a conventional 1. Ford transmission equipped with 2. Lincoln Zephyr gears; Scotty used Second and Third gear exclusively. Linkage from a simple lever between the driver’s legs led to the Second- Third shift arm; another lever safely ahead of the steering wheel was mounted directly to the First- Reverse shift shaft. The engine- mounting hoop also doubled as mooring points for a Norden steering box. The “Chopsticks Special” also ran a Norden, and given the association with Shinoda and Goldberg, it’s entirely possible that steering box came out of Chopsticks. The Bomb’s third partner, Harvey Goldberg, also from the Chopsticks team, owned the front engine. Originally a 3. 03, the Olds displaced 3. It had Howards equipment, including an F5 cam with mushroom tappets. The induction system was unusual: a Weiand dual- quad manifold with adapters to mount two Strombergs per opening, at the time a benefit as four- barrel carburetors lacked flow capacity. Photos of a similar setup on Chopsticks suggests that’s where Bustle Bomb’s engine came from. The fourth partner, George Smith, brought the Caddy to the party. According to Bustle Bomb’s Oct. HOT ROD feature, it also underwent a 4- inch bore and got one of Howards F5 cams. Only this one got the benefit of a 3- 7/8- inch- stroke crank from Miller’s Crankshaft Grinding (it displaced 3. A little trivia: Miller’s shop was pretty much across the street from Lakewood Muffler, which belonged to Clarke Cagle (no relation to Gary Cagle). Clarke Cagle and Joe Mallard ran a swing- axle drag car around 1. As you’ll see, swing axles and exhaust tubing play a significant role in this story. So does another Cagle.“I raced for Orville. When I went to race in Spokane, he took me over to one of his barns and there was Bustle Bomb. He’d taken his motors out, but there was the chassis and body in a tin shed on one of his properties.” — Don Garlits. The Bomb’s Caddy engine got the same induction as the Olds with an additional part: a hydro- check valve. You could say a hydro- check valve is a tiny shock absorber. The carburetors had a spring, only this one pulled the throttles open. The hydro- check valve merely controlled the rate by which the butterflies moved. Before the race, the team pulled the butterflies to the idle position and locked them in place with a latch that connected to a lever in the cockpit. Pulling that lever let the butterflies open at a rate of roughly 2 seconds from idle to wide- open throttle. Why “Bustle Bomb?”“My mom was actually the one who came up with the name for the car,” Lonnie Timney reveals. She said that rear engine hanging off the car looked like a bustle under a woman’s dress.”The Bomb’s fifth partner, Harold Allison, opened Allison Machine Works on Cherry Avenue in Long Beach. Noel Timney took two Model A gear cases (banjos, if you’re of that age) and split each from top to bottom, parallel along the axle centerline. That gave him two front halves with the pinion bearings. He then created a jig that made a new banjo out of two front halves. In other words, the new gearcase had a pinion pointing forward and another pointing backward. Timney also made a spool from scratch, but rather than broach the ends for axles, he machined the ends with a bolt pattern to mount Spicer U- joints. A steel brake rotor was sandwiched between the joint and spool. Remember the mention of the third Cagle? Toby and my dad worked together at a machine shop in Signal Hill [near Long Beach],” Lonnie reveals. He designed the calipers for Airheart. He also told my dad how to make those.”Timney made axleshafts from 1- 1. The outboard ends rode in bearings pressed into a steel tube housing. The inboard end of the housing had a machined- steel yoke that linked to a trunnion fastened to the chassis. A Morris Minor torsion bar held up each end.
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