Ran across the name Besasie in the site. In the spring of 1950 my dad bought a Besasie Turbochager and installed it with a great deal of effort on our 1940 family Chevrolet. I was 15 and learned to drive on it. Besasie was very bright and could do almosdt anything imaginable with his hands, but kind of off-the-wall. The unit as it came required hours and hours to make it work with any reliability. The poured babbit rod bearings (used by Chevrotet thru 1952!) required frequent attention.
I learned to drive with this car. It was faster than any flathead Ford in town. My dad took it off shortly after I g ot my license(no surprise) and sold it thru an ad in Hot Rod magzine.
I have photos of the installation. If anyone is interested i can find and scan/post.
Going back further, my dad was friends with Joe Jagerberger, who manufactured and sold RaJo OHV heads for model T Fords in the teens and 20s. Ra for Racine, WI and Jo for Joe. Joe came this country from Austria for M-B cars and later went to work for Case, who made cars early on but went to tractors later. He drove in the first Indy 500 for Case. I used to visit him with my dad. Joe died in 1952 and I have his obit, again "somwhere". Can probably dig it out if anyone is interested
