Gordon Bishop #33 Studebaker
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Dennis
Thank you.
Silly of me - Crystal Springs Speed way is in the USA, we don't have names like that in England!
Andrew
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Gordon Bishop #33 Studebaker
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Thanks Dave.
Thios is the 41 Stude coupe that had a flathead Ford V-8 that Ed Samples worked on the supercharger.
The one I am after is the later 53 coupe that was also supercharged.
Thanks,
Andrew
Gordon Bishop #33 Studebaker
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In a change from Hugh Babb, I have another question.
On Saturday June 22 1957, Gordon Bishop raced a "supercharged Studebaker Commander" #33 at Crystal Springs Speedway.
Does anyone have a decent picture of the car (the one I have is of Gordon squatting by the door and you can only see the middle section), who won the race and where did Gordon finish?
Thanks again,
Andrew in rainy England
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Oh no, Hugh Babb again
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Hey guys, I'm getting confused!
Basically I am a motoring historian and researcher here in England. When I go looking for info, I try to get dates so I can build a chronology. I did some digging today and came across a report in the Tuscaloosa News of Sunday June 14th 1959 which talks of a race meeting at Birmingham in which would be "(Bill) Latham's #33 supercharged Studebaker capable of reaching 500 horsepower." OK.
I also knew that Gordon Bishop raced a 41 Studebaker, also #33, called the Grey Gull. He had a big crash in that. It seems also he had a big crash in the Babb Studebaker too!
I believe the engine in the Grey Gull was actually a Ford so the negine from the Babb Stude must have gone into the #33 Ford coupe driven by Latham. How long was this car in existance? That would give me a clue as to when the engine came out of that Babb Stude.
Can ANYONE save me from Belle View hospital?
Confused (aka Andrew) of Twickenham (England)
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Hugh Babb - SEDCO
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Dave, I read that one too.
However I read that Babb had been hot stuff with fuel injection and supercharging after WW2. In various interviews both Billy Carden and Jack Smith commented on it.
Hugh Babb - SEDCO
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Thank you, Dave for that info.
So, for a simple Limey to understand, GM/Chevrolet used Nalley to form a shell company - SEDCO - to set up a supposedly non-GM backed racing team? What date did they do this? I believe 1956 but don't know the month. I am trying to make the Hugh Babb/Billy Myers link to when this new organisation was formed. It seems Babb entered a 55 Chevy driven by Myers (#46) in the first two 1956 Grand National races in November & December 1955. What I want to find out is whether the Babb entry was purely private or part of what was to become the Chevrolet/Nalley/SEDCO operation. Was this 55 Chevy fuel injected? Babb had been working on fuel injected cars for some years and this would most probably interested GM.
Or am I completely wrong here?
Andrew
Hugh Babb - SEDCO
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Hi guys,
this one is not strictly about the man but does concern him.
Can anyone tell me EXACTLY when SEDCO was formed. The month would be good and the date even better.
I believe it was in 1956, but.....
One of these days I'm gonna come over there and check out some fine cars and take in a few race meetings AND hopefully meet some like minded people.
Andrew
in a warmer, sunny and very pleasant
Twickenham, England
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Hugh Babb Information
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Hi Cody,
Thanks for this. The early stuff I didn't know about Al Dykes. I ahd a feeling he sort of graduated from fixing farm equipment to cars. He was good and got a reputation. I though I read somewhere that he tuned both bootlegger's cars as well a that of G-man Roy Shields - cklver move. Quite a few guys rated him, including Jack Smith who he joined in 63 at Smith's transmission shop.
Interesting tho if you look at the 40 Census, it lists Babb living in Paris, La Fayette County, Ms. yet he travelled around to Atlanta, Birmingham.
Thanks again,
Andrew