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Joe Smith · Last edited by Joe Smith on Thu Dec 16, 2010 6:55 am; edited 2 times in total

You remember Turk Dale and his XX-A Gas Drag Bike, here he is at Bowling Green...Turk's Drag Racing was between 1976 and 91...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4a48ykFPt8

On top of Turk's Mail Box in front of his home is a old 1936 VLH motor as a Decoration...He decided beings they were both born in the same year it was time to do something with it...

A trip or two to the Swap Meet...

Turk started project September 17th, had it running December 6th... Motor is 1936 VLH stroked to 4 3/4 ",3 1/2 bore ,92 cubic inches,ported relieved, bigger stainless valves,valve springs from Paul Friebus, larger carburetor,drag pipes. Turk is making some .500 lift cams for later.

From the Mail Box to the Street...
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bandit.queen3807 · Joined: 18 Jan 2010 Posts: 7 Location: Derby, KS

That is my daddy! Isn't he the best??

He put this bike together in record time! It is beautiful and sounds awesome! Laughing

TURK · Joined: 15 Dec 2010 Posts: 4

IT is a VLH motor---T

Joe Smith · Posted: Sun Dec 19, 2010 11:07 am Post subject:

Turk and Iron Mistress number two...this bike ran Alky and N20...

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FASTLANE · Joined: 31 Jul 2009 Posts: 198 Location: EAST COAST CONN.

O.K. SO WHAT ENGINE DID HE REPLACE THE MAILBOX WITH Question

TURK · Joined: 15 Dec 2010 Posts: 4

Poor old mailbox has lost it's friend for 40 years ,no replacement, But the mailbox VL says WHAAAH what has happend to me,probably been 50 years since it has run.---T

Joe Smith · Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2010 10:50 am Post subject:

Couple more pictures someone sent me of Turk and Iron Mistress...

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bandit.queen3807 · Joined: 18 Jan 2010 Posts: 7 Location: Derby, KS

wow, those pics bring back lots of memories!

Joe Smith · Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2011 2:14 pm Post subject:

Announcing the Birth of the Bonneville Salt Flats Bike " JEZABEL" Mistress of the Salt, Daughter of "THE IRON MISTRESS" ready to rock and roar, going to Bonneville Aug 25-Sept 1. Racer again at 75...

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St. Lee · Joined: 22 Sep 2009 Posts: 41 Location: Savage, Minnesota

Granddaddy Joe, is this roughly the same configuration that you used when you ran dual carb Shovel heads?

Joe Smith · Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2011 4:40 pm Post subject:

TURK · Joined: 15 Dec 2010 Posts: 4

Greetings group: The front is a rear jug and head turned 180 & the rocker box turned 180 on the head, ports were raised and made bigger,2.250 ID ,D shaped exhausts 2.250 outlet. lots of welding and shaping. I had a flow bench when I built these heads in 1984. Turk

Joe Smith · Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2011 6:58 pm Post subject:

St. Lee · Joined: 22 Sep 2009 Posts: 41 Location: Savage, Minnesota

Thanks Turk. And thanks Joe - I have had a hankerin' to build a Shovel like this ever since I read about yours on your blog a couple years back. Now if only I can find a customer to pay me to experiment ...

TURK · Joined: 15 Dec 2010 Posts: 4

I used a front and a rear rocker boxes. The oil feed holes in the middle are the only differences I could see. If I was to do it again I would do it like the xlr 1000 and have a cam ground for it> but thats what we did in the 80,s. These were left over from then and I had a lot of cams. I did run 150 mph in the quarter on straight methanol with them,made over 150 passes no problems.