Recent content by Wild Bill Burge

Original Z-11 cam Hey guys...reading some of your Z-11 cam numbers jogged my memory, just a little, as I'm 62 and well...Anyway, in '63 at age 19, I bought for my bench seat Impala an over the counter Z-11 cam. aluminum fan shroud at $9.00 a side, aluminum water pump that leaked and front...

Lamar Walden's aluminum Z-11 heads.. Checked Lamar Walden's price on his web site and his aluminum Z-11 heads are $5999.00 complete. Of course I had a set of these heads about 10 years ago on a 482 blower motor that Lamar built. You could drop an egg through the intake ports! He also built my...

Thanks guys for a great time at the Norwalk event. I enjoyed meeting everyone and riding in Bob's "Heart of Darkness" 409 down the 1320. Brought back many fond memories of years past. The track is much improved since the 60's and 80's. I'll write to Doug Marion at Chevy Rumble and tell him what...

Lamar should know, he built my Z-11 engine years ago and the damn thing went 10:80's in a 63 body beating a Thunderbolt! "The Living legend"

I remember them well... I remember a warm summer night back in 1965 cruising around with my best friend in his refridgerator white 1963 Ford 406 tri-power. A 1965 blue Corvette wanted to race pink slips...naw, we lived in Ohio and didn't have pinks! Anyway, we lined up and heavy Ford with...

Dude, you're sick, but I love it! Wild Bill

Phil...I still have a picture of my old 63 Z-11 taken in front of your shop years ago! "WHEN THE BEACH BOYS SANG ABOUT IT, THEY HIT A NOTE THAT RANG AROUNG THE WORLD...AND IT WAS NOT FORGOTTEN! tHE LIVING LEGEND......WILD BILL BURGE; YOU REMEMBER

Hell yes! I wrote you on your site but Hell, yes it's my old Z-11. Probably taken at Quaker City Dragway in 1988. Were you there the weekend? Beat a '64 hemi as I remember and hauled the car from Columbus on an old ramp truck, just like back in the day! At the drivers meeting after the...

Dyno's 1961 409 Chevy I have a 8x10 colored picture of Don's 1961 white/red interior bubble top Impala on the return road at, I think, Indy's US Nationals. Has a hood scoop, yellow licence plate # VRA 109, OS/S 826 on passenger window along with Don's name and Vogue tires and Jardine headers...

Harrell's Z-11 heads In the late 80's I built, and raced "The Living Legend" Z-11 clone drag car which was featured in many magizines, including the lovely "Miss Linda V" leaning on the aluminum fenders at Raceway Park, admiring my dual quads as I admiried hers! The Z-11 heads and intake I...

End of an era In the summer of 1965 I still had one of the fastest cars around, a 1963 bench seat Impala 340 hp 409 with 456 cogs. The 425 hp engine had puked long before that. We used to race on a long zoom surface in Wheeling West Virginia just across te Ohio line. Every kid who'd purchased a...