The Star Press from Muncie, Indiana • Page 45

500 SECTION THE MUNCIE STAR, WEDNESDAY, MAY 27. 1970 PACE 19 4 M), i Fits Garage Area Better There is a bit of irony jn the Everything You Ueed for the 508 Race, Picnic, name Gasoline Alley tradi tionally applied to the garage area where the race cars are housed at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Gasoline is used only to fuel the little tractors that tow the race cars out to the track. awav v.r: jev ar nr mr.im.r me In the low-slung race cars themselves, the mechanics now Beach, or i use such exotic sounding chem CSTSs i ti ll icals as methanol and ni-tromethane. They have adopted At Ross' these fuels in their relentless search for speed and power.

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