ONE MORE SILVER HALF-DOLLAR
You wanna dig on a cool-looking valve cover?
Check this one out. That purple you see on this
steel Chevy small-block valve cover came courtesy
of our race car painter and powder-coater Joe
Sannutti of Premier Powder Coating at Baxley,
Georgia. This one and its sister will go on
our “new” front-engine dragster, the
one we’re presently thrashing on to meet
the June 18-20 2004 Holley Hot Rod Reunion presented
by Du Pont Automotive Finishes in Bowling Green,
Kentucky. Yeah, the color is “extra bling-bling,”
so call Joe at 912-366-0985 to get yours done
and find out exactly what that color purple
is called. He has plenty of such “candy”
colors available.
But there’s more to this steel valve cover
than meets the eye. Notice where the breather
hole used to be. Now sits in its place a Kennedy
half-dollar that came from wife Fran’s
coin collection. Notice too the new breather
hole that takes the old one’s place. That
and
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the
Kennedy half, with the eagle facing outwards
(the coin’s reverse side) was welded in
by our chassis builder, Tommy Harris of Fabrication
Concepts in Douglasville, Georgia (678-618-9545).
All that was his idea.
Harris built a big breather/puke tank that
now sits in front of our flat-mounted radiator
on our dragster. Since we had no need for the
stock hole in the valve cover, we found that
the Kennedy half-dollar fit perfectly in the
hole. Tommy welded it in place from the back
side, then drilled and afixed a _-inch pipe
in the front of the valve cover, to take care
of any liquid or condensation that might come
forth from our small-block Chevy engine. It
will be routed into the puke tank via two _-inch
hoses. It all looks so nice, so nice …
just make sure to use a half-dollar in the hole’s
place. A quarter won’t work. 
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