[rollei_list] OT: Alfas and straight exhausts


And wow; driving from La Jolla to Beverly Hills when there was a
"reasonable" speed limit before the
freeways were in. Suicide Alley indeed!   I did La Jolla to the San
Fernando Valley in two hours!  I
once did La Jolla to Montecito in 3 hours.  In the Alfa with no
windshield and a straight thru exhaust.
That was fun!
Didn't you have an exhaust cut-out? Straight pipes were made illegal in California around 1935. A firm in Chicago made a mint marketing cut-outs which permitted you to use the mufflers when in town but you could knock them out when on the highway. The firm was Waushnksy, who later morphed into J C Whitney. (Well, actually, they occupied an entire city block, with Whitney on two sides and Waushinsky on the other two sides.) Whitney went bankrupt years back, their largest creditor being the guy who printed their catalogues. 

Marc


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