Bonneville Salt Flats, 1962: Like most contests of speed, history usually finds a place for the truly unique, the highly skilled, and the fortunate. The rank and file often have only their names in a program to mark their valiant efforts. In this case, it’s Bobby Cox out of Lynwood, California, with his 380-cid 1958 Pontiac Bonneville. running a 380 put Cox in the C/Gas Coupes and Sedans. This photo was one of four vehicles described by Car Craft Managing Editor Lynne Wineland: “In the constant search for power and a way to cram greater amounts of the rarified air into large-displacement engines, late-model sedans and sleeker sports cars sprouted appendages designed to trap the wind and force it to the engine.” The Cox car, however, was unique in its choice of ram air equipment: furnace pipe, flex pipe, and metal strapping, which fed the dual-quad setup on the normally aspirated engine. Check out the exhaust plumbing—literally. They look like cast iron with taper threads on the ends. Nothing goes to waste at the Cox household. Wineland describes the car as a “153-mph Bonneville,” which would be 4 mph shy of the class record, set in 1960.
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