lame! was it mid-engined at least?

Looked like it had a Zetec na mounted longitudinally like the original. No one had a flashlite to see what trans set up it had. Still, if light enough with the right gearing , it would be more fun than a V6 Fiero.........

In one of the pictures I took, I could see a turbo off to the side of the block on the passenger side.

It wasn't 4 wheel drive though. Only 2 out back.

The owner said it was a Cosworth 4 of some sort.

+1 This is just so great

A message from: Harald Von Keszycki'
 

I have a habit of finding old racers.

A message from:
Harald Von Keszycki', retired at 82, living in Virginia and no longer wrenching.

"Jeff -Say hello from me to your circle of friends. They did the old ego some good".
Harald

WoW, good work Jeff.

I remember the CRE resident mad scientist and engineer, one Paul Berg (probably a thread all by himself), looking at Von K's 914 and telling him he was going to shoot somebody with the way the turbo system was configured . Sure enough, he burst a turbo wheel and shot a Datsun at Riverside. True story, I saw the wheel implanted in the Datsuns grill.

By the way (on a most somber note), Shav Glick passed on tonight. For those who have been in this thread long enough, you'll know that Shav was "our" friend and with the Los Angeles Times that didn't happen very often.

Rest in peace my friend.

We have lost a friend and a guy who put his heart and soul into what he did best. We should be so lucky to live 87 years as Shav did and write about all things automobile that he saw with his eyes over the years. Rest in peace.

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"You wanted to be noticed by Shav Glick," Andretti told the Times. "He certainly had my respect."




From the L.A. Times:
Shav Glick Remembers The Past
After 71 years as a sportswriter, Shav Glick, retiring at 85, remembered the past in an article L.A. Times Sports Editor Bill Dwyre asked him to write Monday, Jan. 16.

And the greatest memory of them all was of the day, when Glick was just 17, and the young Jackie Robinson played in an exhibition game against the Chicago White Sox in Brookside Park near the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, on March 13, 1938.

The White Sox won the game against the Pasadena Sox that day, 3-2, but Robinson got two of Pasadena's six hits, stole a base and played flawlessly at shortstop. After Robinson started a double play on American League batting champion Luke Appling's hard grounder, Jimmy Dykes, the White Sox manager, talking with reporters, said, "If that boy was white, I'd sign him right now. No one in the American League could make plays like that."

Glick was the official scorer for the memorable game. It was to take Robinson nine more years to become the first black player in Major League Baseball.

Great pictures accompanied Glick's retirement story, including one of him standing next to Robinson in the Pasadena JHunior College honor society photo of 1938.

But Glick's celebrated comment about his retirement wasn't in the article. "I haven't left the Times," he has said. "The Times has left me."

Glick did write, "You think about all the wonderful things you have seen and been privileged to write about -- 35 Indianapolis 500s, Formula One races, Times Grand Prix sports car races, every Long Beach Grand Prix but one, world championship motorcycle events, midgets, spring cars and yes, even drifting. And that's only the motor sports. How about two Olympic Games, a dozen Masters and U.S. Opens, a British Open at St. Andrews, Wimbledon, the World Series, Santa Anita Handicaps, and as a Pasadena native, more Rose Bowl Games than I can count..."

Now, if the Times had a decent editorial page, there would have been an editorial commemorating Glick's retirement. But of course, after the purge of virtually the entire editorial page writing staff, no one there remembers Glick.

Glick is not the oldest sportswriter in history. The Washington Post's Shirley Povich, if memory serves, wrote the last week of his life before he died at 93.

But still, Glick is a marvel. And the Times sports pages, diminished under the Tribune Company's awful ownewrship, still can muster great articles like his retirement piece. Dwyre, the great sports editor, is still in his place.

"As long as I covered sports, I got the most enjoyment from spotting young talent before it became famous, and interviewing young people before the world claimed them," Glick writes.

"Baseball fans think of Ted Williams as one of the game's greatest pure hitters. I saw that hitting when the Thumper was in high school in San Diego. He hit two prodigious home runs in the Pomona 20-30 tourament."

Thanks for the memories, Shav. "Retirement," he wrote, 'The dirtiest 10-letter word in the English language,' said media critic George Seldes -- begins today."

I bow my head at Shav Glick's passing.

He honored many of us by just mentioning our names in his column over the years.

RIP Shav.

It started as a beautiful day
 

It started as a beautiful day. Intended to get some work done on the car. Been windy for the past few days. Last night winds were clocked at 102mph. 102MPH??????? Come on Toto we better take cover.

Turned on the news and Malibu has a fire. Next thing you know Castaic has an inferno.

Like I said it started off asa beautuful Sunday...........
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Started as a little smoke on the horizon.
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Then erupted into this.............
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Victor,
Here is Harald Von K's side of the story.

"Yeah, and on the way out the turbine wheel knurled a spiral path into the inside of the tailpipe, sort of rifling its own barrel. Wish I had a picture.
Is this the Paul Berg who used to harass Corvettes with his little turbo Lancia?"
Harald

Hay, I got a photo like that too !! I've watched hours of news and while they show Chatsworth as being on fire - they never say where ?? But I can see it. Wonder how Mark M. is fairing?

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I just took it a 4:30

Paul Berg .................... Paul Berg. Ya he had a Turbo Fabrication Shop in North Hollywood called Turbo Tech (near the Varna Test Facility). I drove that Lancia Scorpion (nee Monte Carlo) to Ack Millers shop once. Ack drove me around the block in his Pikes Peak hillclimb Turbo 6 cylinder Mustang. Ack was very proud and pleased with the performance of that car. I didn't have the heart to tell him that Paul's car was much faster. That poor overgrown Fiat X1/9's shifter would lay flat on the floor when it came up on boost. It was fast. I passed a couple of motorcycles going up Sepulveda to Mulholland on their outsides. Ya, I can see Berg antagonizing Corvettes with it.

Some more pics from the Malibu fire on this link. These were taken at about 8:30 am today.

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Dave

looks like the fires made for some spectacular views on your drive. i had planned on doing the pca autox at el toro, but it got canceled due to the extremely high winds. unfortunately i had already driven 45 miles in that direction when i found out early yesterday morning. there was no appreciable wind in pasadena all weekend, so this was all a surprise to me. my sympathy goes to the victims of these fires.

Nice pics. Mullholland from Topanga to the beach is one of my favorite roads on 2 wheels or 4. It just gets so looney crowded some times. Next time you are out there you should stop in at Paramount Ranch and have a look. Most of the old track is still there, you can tread in the footsteps of Ken Miles, Dan Gurney and Phil Hill. That might be a good place for "Mulholland Reunion".

Kurt O.

Views of the equally scary fires in Agua Dulce and Canyon Country from "the race course," looking across the beautiful San Fernando Valley.

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As well as the direct impact on the outer communities, the air in Los Angeles is so thick with smoke and ash today from all the fires... this is bad. :(

I am in the middle of it.
Blue sky to the north and Hell to the south. It's a fly zone over my house. Hueys, Super Scoopers, Heavy Lift............

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I am packed and ready to go in two minutes notice. I am one canyon/ ridge over from the burn right now. Another fire has popped up in Stevensen Ranch about 4 miles south of me. 5 Fwy will probably close down soon.