INDEX OF ARTICLES Volume 1 through Volume 26, Number 2, October, 2016] Compiled by Dave Ziegler Secrets Of Speed Society 3860 Cain Run Rd Batavia OH 45103 513-724-0700 www.secretsofspeed.com SUBJECT DESCRIPTION VOL/# PAGE ACCELERATING Improved Tip 3 - 4 6 ACME Acme High Speed Head ( Letter ) 10 - 1 40 ADVERTISEMENT Auto Dealer Magazine – Ad for Model T Ford 22 4 18 - 19 Champion Spark Plugs 8 - 3 35 Champion Spark Plugs 1 - 3 48 Bub Body Corporation 21 - 3 25 Dunn Accessories for Model “A” Ford 17 - 1 45 Eaton Products 25 - 4 25 1944 Ford Motor Company 8 - 3 34 1928 Ford Motor Company 22 - 4 10 Ford Specialties 9 - 1 22 - 23 General Tire 26 - 1 Bach Keyes Motor Products Co. -1929 13 - 3 44 Keyes Motor Products Co. 25 - 4 24 L2aPierre - 1929 Ad 13 - 3 33 Lathan Auto Supply - Paint 22 - 4 42 Lathan Auto Supply – Zenith Carburetor 22 - 4 43 Mod-A-Oil - 1930 17 - 2 17 Motor Wheel Company - 1928 25 - 2 12 PACO - Speedster Bodies 8 - 3 Back Peters & Russell - Starter & Choke 17 - 2 13 1949 Ads from Popular Mechanics Magazine 13 - 4 50 Rajah Auto Supply 22 - 4 8 Sears still stocks them - 1964 Ad 13 - 2 26 - 27 Speed Ads From FD & SF Sept.-Nov. 1931 12 - 2 37 Texaco 24 - 2 32 - 33 Texaco 12 - 4 Back Tire Changer – Weaver Mfg. Co. 23 - 1 22 Old Paper on Old Fords Sept. 1931 12 - 2 49 Picture & Ads from Rose Tire Collection 12 - 4 4 - 9 1913 Roof 16 Valve OHV - Ad 17 - 4 25 Ad 1926 Zenith Carburetor 22 - 4 9 AERO Airplane Parts-Air Cooled Oil Pan & More (Let) 26 - 1 42 - 43 Pinfeather Reminiscences 22 - 1 12 Dayton Aero Four-In-Line 22 - 1 13 - 17 Douglas Air-cooled Ford “A” 22 - 1 18 Man Air Cools Model T 22 - 1 38 Overhead Valve Aero Head 5 - 3 21 - 23 Old Paperwork Murphy Aero Head - 1930 19 - 2 8 -9 AIR CLEANER Air Cleaner (Recommendation by Letter) 3 - 4 33 Air Cleaners - For the Zenith A & B 4 - 3 41 - 43 A Breath of Fresh Air 8 - 1 16 - 17 Correction on Article Above (8-1) (Letter) 8 - 2 32 Ten Dollar Air Cleaner (Letter) 8 - 4 37 AIR FLOW Testing Air Flow of A & A Engines 19 - 1 14 - 17 37 - 38 Air Flow Testing - The Model “A” 4 - 2 14 - 15 Better Breathing - Cylinder Head Flow Analysis 7 - 2 7 AIR FRICTION “Air Friction” Carburetor 13 - 1 11 AIR PLANES Airplane Parts-Air Cooled Oil Pan & More (Let) 26 - 1 42 - 43 Another Reliable Aero plane 7 - 1 22 Akron Funk Model “B” Aircraft 7 - 1 23 Engine Rebuilding - Now We’re Fly’n 13 - 2 11 Funk Revisited 11 - 4 17 Funk Engines (Letter) 17 -1 36 Homemade Hero 7 - 2 9 - 10 Airplanes ( Letter ) 16 - 3 40 - 41 Funk Aircraft - Crankshafts - Old Paper 17 - 4 12 Funk Airplane – Dave Harmon 20 - 3 23 Pietenpol 7 - 1 24 - 25 Pietenpol Passion 14 - 1 14 - 20 Pientenpol (Drawing) 7 -1 Front Pientenpol (Letter) 10 - 4 37 Rallum Cylinder Head In Air (Letter) 24 - 4 40 - 41 Russians Are Flying 7 - 1 36 Wiley Post “A” Powered Aircraft 13 - 3 29 - 31 Wire Wheels - February 1928 17 - 2 18 Wright Brothers Use Model A Engine (Letter) 14 - 3 38 - 39 AKRON - HED Akron - Hed Model ”T” OHV Conversion 8 - 3 19 ALEXANDER Alexander OHV (Letter) 14 - 4 40 Alexander Intake Manifold (Letter) 25 - 4 41 ALLSTATE Allstate 2405 Carburetor –Pressure Balancing 23 - 3 36 ALTERNATE FUEL Gas-O-Gen Fuel System 23 - 2 16 Fuel Oil Conversion Cuts Auto Operating Cost 15 - 4 26 - 27 ALTERNATOR 6 to 12 Volt Conversion 7 -1 12 - 17 12 Volt Alternator 6 - 2 16 Fuses (Letter) 7 - 3 34 AMES Ames Speedster Bodies - 1921 to 1926 - Ad 14- 3 4 - 5 Bob Ossont’s Speedster 14 - 3 6 - 8 AMUSEMENT Bucking Model T as Amusement Feature 16 - 4 24 - 25 ARISTOCRAT The Alexander “Aristocrat” 5 - 1 6 - 7 AMBLER-FORD Old Paper - Ambler OHV Conversion 18 - 3 10 - 11 Ambler-Ford Super Valve-In-Head (Pamphlet) 4 - 1 20 - 23 Ambler SOHC (Letter) 8 - 3 38 Ambler Brother’s SOHC Cross Flow 10 - 2 18 - 19 ANDERSON Anderson Flathead (Pictures) 3 - 4 33 - 34 Anderson Intake Manifold 6 - 2 21 Anderson or Thomas (Letter) 7 - 3 33 ANECDOTES Flaming Anecdotes (Letter & Ads) 17 - 3 39 - 40 Model A Ford Anecdotes - From the 1950's 17 -3 43 ANNUAL MEETING 1st Annual Meet - West Coast Meet 2 - 4 4 2nd Annual Meet & Seminar 2 - 4 4 1993 SOSS West Meet & Antique Nationals 3 - 2 45 - 49 1993 Hershey 3 - 3 6 ANSEN 1948 Hot Rod Parts Catalog 7 - 3 6 - 7 1950 – 1955 Catalog Sheets 20 - 4 36 - 39 Ansen Parts (Letter) 21 - 1 30 ARDUN Ford V-8 w/ Ardun Conversion Cylinder Head 19 - 1 26 - 29 ARLEN SPECIAL Front-Drive Racer 6 - 2 22 - 28 ARTICLES List of additional magazines related to A/B 2 - 2 25 performance. Man’s Quest for Speed 3 - 4 8 -10 The Price of SPEED 11 - 3 4 ART POSTERS Collectable Art Posters 23 - 4 21 Wilbur Wright au Salon de I’automobile 26 - 1 28 - 29 AURORA Aurora Hi-Compression Head Ad (1930) 10 - 3 8 Aurora Speed Parts - Ad 17 - 4 34 AUTOMATIC See Transmission AVIATION Flying with the Model A Engine 15 - 3 14 - 17 Wiley Post AXLE Hot Tip: 1928-1932 Axles (Letter) 25 - 3 41 BABBITT Babbitt (Letter) 21 - 4 36 - 37 Is Babbitt Safe? (Letter) 24 - 1 36 Banger Bearings 15 - 3 18 - 19 Babbitt or Inserts? You Chose! 2 - 4 29 - 31 Babbitt, Comments on (Letter) 5 - 1 40 Foundry Manual- Chapter XX Babbitting 9 - 3 19 - 21 BAR-B-Q Pictures of Bar-B-Q Grills ( Letter ) 12 - 2 44 BACKFIRE Comments on First Three Issues 1 - 4 50 Misc. Information 2 - 1 4 Camshaft Information 2 - 3 27 -28 Harmonic Balancer 2 - 3 28 Info on HAL heads and Camshaft Information 2 - 2 14 - 16 Stromberg Carburetor, Main Bearing, Oil 3 - 1 14 - 15 Pressure Stromberg Carb, Camshaft ,39-42 Brakes 3 - 2 7 OHV Heads, Overdrive, Multi-Lifts, Carb Jets, 3 - 4 18 - 19 Etc. Tubing, Flatheads, German Four, Head Gasket 4 - 1 44 - 46 Head Gaskets, 39 Trans, Ambler Head, Antique 4 - 2 3 Nats 28 Chev Comments, Tacoma Meet, Model B 4 - 3 4 - 5 Motor Ignition, Riley Overhead, 56 Ford Steering 5 - 1 4 - 5 Letter to comments to Backfire of 5 - 1 6 - 1 40 - 41 Dyno Test, Riley Overhead, Alexander Stuff 5 - 2 4 - 5 Morton & Brett, Dyno, Cams, Model T Stuff 5 - 3 4 Axle Ratio, Pop Green, Marshall Daut 5 - 4 4 BALANCING Balancing Model T, A & B Engines 17 - 3 32 - 33 BARN FINDS Ron Lile Sprint Car Find 21 - 1 12 - 13 BATTERY Battery Explosion 15 - 1 45 Battery Explosion - Feed Back (Letter) 15 - 2 42 BEARINGS Improve Bearing Life (Letter) 1 - 2 22 - 23 Pressurize “A” Center Main Bearings (Letter) 17 - 4 37 5 Bearing Cam Supports 4 - 2 16 Banger Bearings 15 - 3 18 - 19 BELL AUTO PARTS 1950 Old Paper 22 - 3 16 - 18 1952 Catalog Pages of Speed Equipment 5 - 4 24 - 25 BELL HOUSING “BB” Bell Housing – Six Speed OD (Letter) 23 - 4 43 BIOGRAPHIES / INTERVIEWS Carl “Pop” Green -As I Remember Him 5 - 4 17 - 18 Pop Evans 9 - 1 24 - 26 Harold Hicks - From Airplanes to “A”s 5 - 4 26 - 27 Hal Hosterman (See Engine Heads) 2 - 1 12 - 14 Harry Leo Hosterman & Heads, Etc. 15 - 1 6 - 43 The HAL You Say! 15 - 1 18 - 19 Don Lockwood (Letter) 2 - 2 26 Rose Gerber wife of John 8 - 3 4 - 8 Harry A. Miller 3 - 2 10 - 27 Don Radbruch 12 - 1 4 - 5 RAJO Jack - Part1 8 - 4 32 RAJO Jack - Part 2 9 - 1 30 - 31 RAJO Jack - Part 3 9 - 2 34 John L. “Dad Riley 3 - 1 6 - 9 Robert M. Roof (Model T & A Overhead) 2 - 3 5 - 22 Dean Robertson -Outside the Box 9 - 4 26 - 27 Bill ‘Speedy’ Smith - The Ultimate Experience 6 - 3 22 - 33 Ed Winfield Interview 1977 16 - 2 6 - 9 BLOWERS Hey Buddy – Need A Blower (Letter) 21 - 3 43 BOATTAIL Speedsters – Part II 25 - 3 4 - 16 Boat-Tail Speedster – Part 1 25 - 2 13 - 27 Bill Cote – Boat-tail 25 - 4 8 - 19 BODY Ames Speedster Bodies 14 - 3 4 - 8 Wood That Bends & Shapes (Letter) 20 - 2 36 Bodies – Dead or Alive 23 - 1 12 - 13 Boat tail (Drawings & Picture (Mike Smith) 3 - 3 47 - 48 Boat tail - On the Road 3 - 3 48 Bowser - Rebuilding a Real Speedster 7 - 2 21 The Bullet Racer (Advertisement) 10 - 3 8 Chassis Dimensions for Mounting Bodies 2 - 4 21 - 22 Designing the Ford Speedster Body (Pictorial) 2 - 4 15 - 20 Body Building - The Fundamentals 6 - 3 6 - 9 Building a Speedster Body -Model T 6 - 1 21 - 23 Equipto Body (Lette ) 21 - 3 36 Fabric Bodied Speedster 13 - 2 4 - 10 Found Speedster Body (Letter) 18 - 1 40 Supplier Get A Load of This! 21 - 2 6 - 7 Supplier German Engineering – Aluminum Body - 23 - 1 20 - 21 Movie of Above Alum. Body German Eng. 23 - 3 41 Menge - Speedster Building 15 - 4 28 - 31 Menge Speedster (Letter) 16 - 2 33 The Mercury Body (Entire Vol 26-2 26 - 2 4 -41 Mike’s “A” Speedster Body 15 - 4 32 - 33 PACO - Speedster Body Advertisement 8 - 3 Back PACO Speedster Bodies 14 - 2 4 - 15 PACO - French Style, 1916, Model 22 15 - 4 34 REX Collegiate 1926 Model T 21 - 4 32 Speedster Body Sub Frame 14 - 3 12 - 13 Speedster Body Building (Fabricator) 25 - 1 11 They Make Speedster Bodies (Letter/Supplier) 25 - 1 36 Speedster, Model T (Drawing) 5 - 1 24 - 25 Speedster - On the Make 7 - 1 19 Speedster Bodies -Supplier (Letter) 8 - 2 35 Need a Speedster Body? (Supplier) 10 - 3 37 Speedster - Jim Huseby (Supplier) 12 - 4 37 Sports Factories of America 24 - 1 20 - 21 BOOKS & CD The Alternate - Old Racing News Publication 18 - 4 14 Barney Oldfield 12 - 4 36 Dirt Track Auto Racing 14 - 1 44 CD of Speed Equipment (Letter) 18 - 1 42 Experiments- 1929-1934 with Model A Engines 22 - 3 42 2012 Rules & Records S.C.T.A.