McCoy -60- History

[Bob Heywood]

Does anyone know how the McCoy -60- s were being set-up at the end of their competitive era?

Thanks.

Bob

[Dennis Saydak]

I have one that was custom set up for me by Franny's chrome service back in the 60s. It has precision aligned bearings, chromed sleeve, properly gapped rings and a "sewer pipe" venturi. It also has a turned down head & fins as per Telford's Top Cat article. It should be a real barn burner but I no longer fly speed and I've never run it.

[Bob Heywood]

Interesting... Very nice McCoy.

Cliff Telford won Open C Speed at the 1962 Glenview NATS with a speed of 167.84 mph. Bob Violett won Sr. C with a 152.87 speed.

I started Speed in 1967 with an ex Jerry Roselle McCoy that had some work done by Franny's along with a phenolic laminate rotor and a pressed in venturi. The stock rotor retaining rings were replaced by a soldered brass sleeve to set the rotor clearance. But, the basic design was not changed. Performance was on par with Violett.

I was wondering if anyone had gone to a flat top piston and a squish band head by that time.

[bob whitney]

Bob, seems to me that guys were starting to punch them out to about like 62's then the Rossi 65 came out and pretty much did the McCoy in , the Rossi was just a more modern copy of the McCoy but with bigger passage ways and a full 65

[Bob Heywood]

Right. The early Rossi had a lot of McCoy DNA. I figure it wasn't just a chance step change. By that time one or more tuners likely had built a McCoy that was pretty close. My curiosity has me wanting to know more.