On Fri, 9 Apr 2010 23:41:06 -0700, the infamous "Bill McKee"
scrawled the following:


"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

[Ed, I saw your comments via Bill's quote. I just checked google and
couldn't find any of those links in the first twenty pages of google
returns, ya shameless ******.]


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

Dad raced SCCA gymkhanas and autocrosses in Little Rock, AR in the
early 60s and I never recall hearing the term. I cut my teeth on his
Austin 100-4, tuning the spoke rims for him. It's what drove me into
the auto repair business at the end of high school. shrug

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