"Sneaky Pete" Robinson: "drag racing's Colin Chapman"

[Ace-Garageguy]

 

[Mark]

I watched that three times yesterday.  Like all of this guy's videos that I have seen, it's packed with information yet concise, not sensationalized, interesting in terms of the human element, and the story never drags or veers off on tangents. Robinson worked with George Montgomery to develop parts to improve the OHC Ford engine, something barely touched on for lack of time.  Had he lived longer, we might be seeing fuel cars running with engines derived from the OHC Ford today.  That time frame was the most interesting in drag racing, when different approaches could be tried and made competitive, before things got scienced out to the point of there only being one way to do anything.