"Party-vi" (party-vi)
04/30/2015 at 09:30 • Filed to: History Lesson
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"Party-vi" (party-vi)
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Quite a bit of history in this picture. Arthur Chevrolet is seen at the inaugural race for the newly opened Atlanta Speedway in a Buick race car. Arthur Chevrolet was a brother to Louis Chevrolet, the famed co-founder of Chevrolet. Louis and Arthur both raced for Buick early in their careers. Arthur Chevrolet held the first patent (1930) for an overhead valve engine and a device that was used to retrofit an overhead valve train assembly to existing flathead engines. Louis Chevrolet partnered with William C. Durant and others to start Chevrolet in 1911. Durant was previously hired by David Dunbar Buick in 1904 to manage his new car company Buick. Two years prior to hiring the man that would take his company from him and create General Motors, Buick invented the overhead valve engine.
Rock Bottom
> Party-vi
04/30/2015 at 10:06 |
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Well found pic, though I prefer their later Frontenac-Ford machines!
tromoly
> Party-vi
04/30/2015 at 12:06 |
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Is that a ratchet srap holding the engine cover closed?
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Party-vi
> tromoly
04/30/2015 at 12:17 |
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That would be the old leather strap an buckle engine cover management system.