Last week's Area Auto Racing News contains a Herb Anastor story about Joe Barzda, who was one of the first to put a Chevy V8 in a USAC sprint car. Does anyone know how USAC set the size limit on the Chevy? Obviously, if they had set it too small, it wouldn't have be the "Offy Killer", and history might be different.

BTW, Barzda made the sprint car by stretching his midget. He didn't lengthen the chassis as others did, but simply added a "suicide front end" to it. I remember cheering for Joe in that car against the big names that came East to run Reading or The Grove.

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I thought He used a Ford engine. Maybe the Ford came after he tried the Chevy?

Originally ,the car raced as a sprint with a supercharged flathead Ford

Yes, that's true (and I wondered about the rule under which that was legal, too), but I was really interested in the Chevy question.