Old Herb Adams car at Goodguys

[Skip Fix]

http://www.chevyhardcore.com/features/not-forgotten-herb-adams-and-the-vse-cheverra-racer/

Any of you guys see the car and how it did? Still have my old VSE catalogs and some extra parts like their weld in bushings.

[David Pozzi]

I'd like to know too.

[Skip Fix]

no one?

[neki67]

There was this early 2nd gen Firebird I could see during my French lessons in High School. I loved that car. That was 2 years before I got the first Hot Rod magazine I ever laid my hands on. The Cheverra was in it. It was in 1978 and I liked the whole idea. Mind you this is all taking place across the ocean in a small town in the Netherlands. It is from a time the Internet didn't exist.

35 years later and I still like the idea, so yeah, I also would like to know how this car did.

[tflyboy77]

I would like to know as well. Herb Adams is probably my biggest automotive influence. I got to meet him and talk to him at the trans am nationals a couple years back. He's a very humble person that wants nothing more than to build cars.

[bret]

I saw it run...don't remember exactly what times compared to the rest of us, but it was at least respectable. ESPECIALLY since the car [nor the driver] had any experience on that track.
Goodguys might be able to go back to retreive lap times.

In my mind...I don't even care how fast it was at Columbus...the cool thing about this car is how fast it was 35 years ago [with a big block and leafsprings]. I doubt the even Herb Adams would argue that technology has progressed in that amount of time. Whatever has been acheived since then stands on the shoulders of Herb Adams. He and that car set the standard for all the rest of us who get to make our living creating suspension packages. I, like many of you, initially learned the difference between bumpsteer and camber gain from his book...and why each mattered.

Mr. Adams, if you are viewing...my hat is off to you, sir!