Notes on the Quarter Million Quarter Mile

[cammer427]

Another inconsistency seems to be if Jake King really did "tune" the Mutt Bros S&K Hemi Dart for the big race.

In the Quarter Million Quarter Mile story, Bobby says they had Jake King tune the Hemi. At the end of the story, DeFeo also mentions Ronnie Sox himself admitting to it: "(I also called) Ronnie Sox and he confirmed the connection as he remembered doing some subcontract work for the Mutt Brothers for that race."

Eugene Coard (one of the Mutt Bros), on the other hand, states on RonaldLyles.com that "there were rumors going around that the Dart was tuned a few times by Jake king from the Sox and Martin shop, that is not true the car was never out of Brooklyn. The way the car came from S&K that the ways we race that car just plugs valve and clutch adjustment."

So Ronnie Sox himself remembers contracting Jake King to tune their car specifically for that race, while Eugene Coard says it was just a rumor. Somewhere along the line is a little bit of . I wonder if anyone will ever know what really happened?

[cammer427]

I was talking to Tony DeFeo on another site about the story and he cleared up a few details. They published the article with some of the names of people/groups changed (i.e: "Mudd Brothers", etc.) as a liability concern. "Bobby" in the story was actually Barry Pittard, who was friends with the Mutt Brothers and Tab Talmadge. That's all I could really get out of him.

[442w30]

Do you really think anything written in Cars Illustrated was done without a wink of one's eye?

Sometimes the legend is larger than the truth.