"Ed Huntress" wrote in message
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"Larry Jaques" wrote in message
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On Fri, 09 Apr 2010 10:07:57 -0400, the infamous Joseph Gwinn
scrawled the following:

I recall reading these explanations, but no longer recall the details. I
don't
recall that it was called "jacking", though. My friend didn't call it
that, if
I recall.

I dare you to find it when googling "car jacking".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swing_axle

http://www.corvaircorsa.com/wright.html

http://wapedia.mobi/en/Chevrolet_Corvair?t=4.

http://everything2.com/title/Chevrolet+Corvair

Anyone involved with sports car racing in the '60s knew it as jacking. If
you talk to someone who claims to have been there and who doesn't know
immediately what you mean by "jacking," in reference to Corvairs, VW's,
Porsches, Formula V's, Triumph Spitfires, or even pre-'64 Pontiac Tempests
g, then he wasn't really there.

--
Ed Huntress


Might have been a regional term. I raced San Francisco Region SCCA and do
not recall any discussions of "jacking".