Record broken ,Bonneville

Concerning the roadster body size -- don't know if it's as tall or wide as a 29-A, but the hood is a lot longer -- and the p***. compartment appears longer than a T. The hood, according to Pedro, is stock length which means it could be lengthened 3" and the driver put deeper into the car for more aero. In fact, the present cage is 4 or 5 inches farther forward than it needs to be. Coould go even faster with a rebuilt cage. It was interesting that the car went faster after it lost the headlights and fenders -- sorta like the rules hopefully projected.

Stan Back

 

Another great history making read.
Well done guys.

 

The car sure looks legal in the pictures and it was on the salt long enough for the Ford guys to measure anything they wanted to. It must be good cause roadster guys will protest anything posssable. Great job guys.

 

They let Bantaam roadster bodies run- several out there. It took a long fight by J D Tone, but he finally got the body approved.

 

Great job guys. It was great seeing you out there this year. And I love that push truck.... How about posting a pic of it with it's hopped up head. ??

 

But after a while they decided Jim would have to run a bigger grill shell, I think. "28 Ford sq. In. min. And stick his rear wheels out fron their OEM location into the windstream like a Ford. Ended up negating a lot of the Bantam reason for running

 

so I can not build a 26/27 model T engined model T and run it in gas or fuel roadster cl***, which I ***ume is what you car runs in? does an earlier T body qualify?

your car also runs a tube ch***is, does it have a belly pan and floor board? or just a belly pan mounted underneath the lowest frame rail?

when you ran the midget nose on your car, did you have to change the cl*** it ran in? or is there just a minimum surface area it has to meet?

or have I crossed up so many cl***es that I made an *** out of myself again...

 

T bodied roadsters can run as Street Roadsters or Modified roadsters. They may not run in Gas or Fuel Roadster. My roadster is a gas roadster. When it had the track nose on it, it was a Modified roadster. In Modified you can stretch the car out to 190 inches if you want to, run a belly pan, and streamline all you want fowared of and including the cowl. My roadster has what is called a step pan, floorboards not lower than the bottom of the frame. No belly pan. '28 Ford mininum size grill shell. Mine is about as streamline as it can be. Street roadsters need rear fenders, a radiator, head lights, Street type stuff. Driver in stock location. Hood within 3 inches of stock length for the body it's with. Grill shell same as the body and a min of 530 sq. in. All this is in the rule book. Mod roadster picture attatched. See if you can find the roadster in there.

 

The Whiners overlooked a superior, and legal, design for 75+ years ?

 

Thanks, it was great seeing you guys run as well! I don't have a picture of the sweet Edgy F head, but here's one of Chris' truck towing our car. Having the truck and the portable battery charger get more attention than the roadster has been a hard pill for Pedro to swallow!

 

Here's a picture of the F head conversion from the Mopar Magazine article on Edgy...

 

So, in the modified roadster cl***:

if you run a belly pan, can that also be considered a floor board?

is there a limit on the depth of a belly pan? example:

build a tube frame ch***is that the lower frame rail sits 6" below the bottom of the body belt line, then cover the exposed frame rail with the belly pan? would that become part of the body, or would that be considered a belly pan?

 

If you run a proper belly pan it would normally be body metal or gl*** ment to streamline the under car. In that case you will be required to build in to the car a proper floorboard to keep your feet from going out through the bottom in case of a roll over or other incident. Some use expanded metal for the floor. Floor boards will be above the bottom of the frame and inside of all suspension (Four bar) parts. The plan here is to keep your body parts within the car while it is losing it's body parts. If you built a car with the bottom frame rail 6 inches below the bottom of the stock body work you can run sheet metal from the body down and under the car to make a belly pan. All of this stuff is in the rule book. I am glad you chose to use the quote in which I spelled "explain" correctly. The other guy who used it took the time I spelled it "explane" and didn't change it even after I PMd him. And he put my name with it. Spelling is for sissies antway.

 

That's the reason I built a modifed roadster Rich........... Mine is entered as a Dodge Bros. too.

That Dodge is sweet.