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I was a part of a drag racing team in '66 (Mr. Ed, owned by Ed Wills). I don't know if they still do it, but we put warm up plugs in just before the race & ran the engine to warm it up. Every time, we'd have people crowded around, and we'd ask them to step back because it would be very loud. Of course they wouldn't, but at soon as the engine lighted up you could see all of them moving back as if pushed by a wave. If I remember right, the engines only produced around 1,800 housepower. Chrysler supplied the engines & Keith Black built them. Ed would take them out of the crate, and run them for one event. Then he would crate it back up & send it back to Keith.
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Marv Evans
'69 911E
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