{"id":492401,"date":"2012-06-01T06:30:50","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T13:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=27659"},"modified":"2024-12-27T03:08:14","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T03:08:14","slug":"jim-hall-rrdc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/jim-hall-rrdc\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Hall at the RRDC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='memberful-global-teaser-content'>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Telling about cannibalizing a pickup truck engine for his racecar, he said, \u201cAny of you would have really enjoyed\u201d that caper. And a grinning Jim Hall went on to explain that early in his career, when \u201cI was already into the hot-rodding of race cars,\u201d he built a Lister-Chevy with \u201call the hot stuff, Edelbrock manifold and Iskenderian cam and I ground out the heads and I thought, boy, this is gonna go.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_538891\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-538891\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/FL-PETELYONS.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-538891\" src=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/FL-PETELYONS.jpg\" alt=\"Pete Lyons\" width=\"300\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/FL-PETELYONS.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/FL-PETELYONS-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/FL-PETELYONS-71x100.jpg 71w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/FL-PETELYONS-293x415.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-538891\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pete Lyons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe went over to a little track in Hondo, Texas \u2026 got it off the trailer and got going and it was pretty quick, I was gettin\u2019 around there about as quick as anybody. 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