New member from Salt Flats, Tx. is a CHUMPCAR owner

[taylorcraftbc65]

Hi everyone! I noticed that you guys have an old thread about the ChumpCar World Series, so as a ChumpCar TeamOwner, I thought I would join, and introduce myself.
 I have two ChumpCars that are going through their build process right now. One is a lowered 1987 Jeep Cherokee 2WD that was picked up at a Texas Sheriff's auction after it was busted at a border checkpoint with a bunch of pot hidden in the gas tank.
I picked that up for 400 dollars, and because we can use ANY engine that came out of a junkyard to power our race cars, I went to the FINEST junkyard in west Texas, where they sell everything as scrap metal, and pulled a 4 liter Rover aluminum block out of a Rover, to put it into the Jeep.
 I have previous experience with putting Buick 215's into Triumph Spitfires, so I know what this engine can do. The second car that I am building up is a Sunbeam Alpine that will get it's OWN Rover V-8.
Sabrina "Brie" Hill

[Moderator]

Welcome to BritishV8, Brie!

[taylorcraftbc65]

Thanks for the welcome, I am in the process of pulling the inline six out of the Jeep Chreokee now. As soon as I start to install the Rover engine, I will load up photos of the entire transformation.   Brie

[rficalora]

Brie, where's Salt Flats TX?

[taylorcraftbc65]

Salt Flats, is a pretty large area in the northern part of Hudspeth County, Texas.  If you locate El Paso on a fairly large scale map, you will see a two lane HWY that runs fairly parallel to, and about 15 miles south of, the Texas--New Mexico boundry line. Before it corsses into Culverson County, and then turns north towards Carlsbad, New Mexico, It runs right through a pretty good set of salt flats, that almost started the SECOND Mexican-American war. We are two miles south of that road (HWY 62-180), And two miles west of the two lane that starts at HWY 62-180, and runs south to the town of Sierra Blanca, the county seat, that straddles Interstate ten.   Brie