86 / CYCLE WORLD
TOP: The Menasco Pirate at a 1740s architectural folly designed by William Kent,
the father of English landscape design. Dr. Tuluie built his road-legal racer around a
lightweight 1930s aircraft engine and a 1929 Riley chassis, with special GP bodywork
created by Richard Scaldwell. He’s raced it at hillclimbs and endurance events, like
the Spa 6-hour, where it was the fastest pre-war car at 173.9 mph. RIGHT: Menasco
Motors of Burbank, California, built the most successful aero-racing engines of the
1930s: the Pirate was its four-cylinder, six-liter engine, and was originally inverted.
Tuluie added four Amal RN racing carbs with home-cast “Menasco” float bowls, and
his motorcycle racing skills have proved useful: he’s won a lot of events!