Last week’s SIA interview with George Romney, while informative on a couple topics, was really rather dull. The very next interview that SIA published, however, with Donald Healey in SIA #67, February 1982, not only is full of Mr. Healey’s engaging personality, but also ranges over a wider territory, from copying Chrysler engines, to train […]
We’ve mentioned before that one of the great values of Special Interest Autos was that the editors and writers of the magazine were able to get their information straight from the men who made the automotive history that we study today. For instance, Arch Brown’s interview with George Romney in SIA #66, December 1981. Though […]
Almost unnoticed, a really good guy and good racer passed away last week. Shirl Greer was a Georgia native, a true Southern drag stud, who improbably became the NHRA’s Funny Car national champion in 1974 under some wild circumstances. Greer had been in ill health, and passed away at a hospital in Johnson City, Tennessee. […]