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Watched a time trial at Indy in '79 one year between Hoard and Cotton Perry's 6-cylinder Pocket Rocket Nova. Those two together made much noise. Hoard's car left like a rocket.

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Yes, that is Terry's car. I'll post the other pic that Steve sent me when I get home.
Bob Rice

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I saw an old Mazda rotary pick up earlier at work today.

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Kind of remember this didn't Hoard buy the combo from Jim???? just asking


Jim Medaor?? not sure on spelling Div 7 car he has a stocker today



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Originally Posted by Todd Bailey
I was thinking the same thing but I thought Terry Hoard's car was a dark color. That was a wicked ride!!!

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And here's Terry as promised at Bowling Green. Steve Jackson photo.


http://i713.photobucket.com/albums/w...acksonPhot.jpg

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Speaking of rotay Mazda's and "L-O-U-D"....

I was at a Div VII Points Meet at Sears Point (Infineon?) about 8 or 10 years ago... not sure about the date, and they were running a Breakout Eliminator called "SUPER", which had a 7.90 dial...

Somebody had one of these 2-rotor Wankels in a Rear Engine dragster chassis and had a G.M.C. 4-71 roots-style blower bolted to the side of the engine, driving it with a conventional Gilmer belt.

Every time it made a pass, everything stopped... people would stand, dead-in-their tracks... it was like two Fuelers running at once...

The poor guy in the Big Block Chevy rear-engine dragster in the next lane couldn't hear his engine at all, I'm sure, because all I could hear in the stands, was that blown Mazda...

WAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.....................

Must have been a new car, because he broke out with a 7.68 (!), as I recall...

It was awesome...

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Here's who your looking for. Mazda Spirit of Takayuki Oku & Jim Mederer from Racing Beat. Last I saw Jim was at a road race here in Florida and are still in business in Anaheim CA. I remember Jim's Mazda vividly the first time I saw him testing at OCIR in '77. I thought the surrounding windows of the tower were going to explode from the sound of that thing. There are several of these RX3s and 4s the sport compact crowd run these days that don't sound much different.
http://www.racingbeat.com/gallery/RX3%20Drag.1.jpg

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I heard rumors from the racers of the day when I took those pics that he was turning 17,000rpm's in contrast to the sbc's 12-13,000rpm's. I was a distinct sound.

Steve

It makes me wonder what kind of tach he had. There is an Autometer decal on there.

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There was also an RX-7, red in color, that I remember running in Seattle in the early 90's. It ran a Rotary engine, and was loud and fast.

Not sure if that was Terry Hoard, but that was a cool car!

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Jeff, that red RX7 was run by a guy whos last name was Atkins, from the Tacoma/Puyallup area. He had a shop called "Atkin`s Rotary Service" that was located behind his house.He used to regularily race at Bremerton & SIR, and later ran the car is 10.90 Super Street, with a Nash 5 speed behind the rotary. I think his first name may have been Dennis, but I can`t say for certain.
As I understand it, Terry Hoard was working on a new RX7 when NHRA eliminated Modified Eliminator in 80 or 81. Never seen (or heard! )of Terry Hoard after that.