Saturday, we made the short trip, basically down the street, to the Schley Brother's museum, which is housed in Paul Schley's work shop. Apparently the brothers have done well for themselves with SP Tools...
The Treffen Saturday Rally was passing through when we got there, this was one of the cars participating in the rally...
Yes, that's a REAL Cobra.... like I said, I guess the brothers have done well...
Recreation of the original Lightening Bug: the first bug in the 10's. The original was totaled by Mark during a race. He's lucky to have lived, he recounted the whole thing for us
Mark Schley with Paul and Chuck...
And with me...
Back in the day, there was no VW performance aftermarket, so they had to make their own "go fast parts." That connecting rod is a 36 horse big end welded to 40 horse small end, they were stroking 36 horse cranks, but needed to use pistons with the larger pins of a 40 horse. They only had factory 1.1:1 rockers, so they modified them to give higher rations.
This was I think the most impressive thing they had made: a dual port head made from a single port. Remember, back when these guys started out in the 60's, there were no dual port heads. So they made their own with what they had.
The museum I think was the highlight of the weekend, I could have spent all day there. Mark Schley was an incredible host and chatted with us for a long time. Unfortunately, his brother Paul was out of town, so we didn't get to meet him.