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From memory, it was 1,750 lbs minimum, and 7.5 lbs per cubic inch for engines bigger than 233 CID. That was modified a couple years later, into...
Yes, on the outskirts of Paris.
Argyle is probably a latter day invention, maybe by Jack Fox. Those cars were designed and built by Guyot.
Old Dawg, I hope we can settle this without the bickering that often seems to creep into online discussions (see above :rolleyes:). It's just a...
It is. There's a good write-up with drawings in Laurence Pomeroy's Grand Prix Car, and some of the same in Robert Dick's Mercedes and Auto Racing...
Actually, the stagger valve principle was used already by Fiat with their S61 type, which ran in the inaugural Indy 500 (and placed third, then...
Thanks, Billy, for that great pic of the Reed & Mulligan Stagger Valve. Mr. Nobey, I'm sorry if you feel that way, but I really can't see how...
Oldfield and de Paolo never raced at SLO, though de Palma did once while he was living in California. Fact is, it was a regional track, like 99 %...
10 %, more likely.
If by "all around the US" you mean California, then that's correct. ;)
The Vivian Buick was a Chevy, actually... About the best known Buicks in that time frame were the Keith Sapp "Sappo" Buick out of Illinois, the...
You're welcome. One of the Coopers was really a renamed Miller, and was sold to Phil Shafer in 1928, ran in two more 500s before it was sold to...
Hi there, and welcome! The Coleman specials did indeed have live front axles, which was possible because the Miller engines always used a...
I don't think Shorty actually owned the car. It was known as the FAS Special in 1926, named after master mechanic and probable car owner Floyd A....
The HAMB comes alive again! Great find, Billy, and a picture I hadn't seen before, too. It must show Wee Wilbur before his feature win at...
Actually, it's the Labadie Bros. Special of Wilson Labadie, an AARC owner from Michigan, I think. An early SBC sprinter, also driven by Clare...
This was a Mercury or Ford V8 special owned by John "Jack" Kuhn junior of Trenton/NJ (or possibly Levittown/PA). The earliest record that I have...
:):):):) Excellent! As usual, Bob, you have again uncovered a lot of very interesting information about a rather obscure driver from a century...
Fairly sure it is. Who's the guy with Art?
I apologize for my flippant comment - I, too, enjoy your stories & pictures, ratamahata! So please, let them continue. The "myths" are mostly of...
The myths mix with the stories... Oh, how very true! :lol:
Wow, that's a great picture! Moriceau, Chiron, de Palma and Chevrolet - four racing greats from Europe ;)
Don't sell before you have spoken to me!!! :)
That's what I have been saying, always. The two "Molsheim Millers" are an anomaly, in that they were far removed from any useful racing purpose...
What an intriguing collection of esoteric racing machinery! Where is it from?
Duesenberg built one DOHC 183 CID engine, and generally changed over to DOHC for the 122 (lower picture in post #10754) and 91 CID racing engines...
Not really too early for "Spunk" Collins, as he was already racing by then, but didn't get his hands on this kind of machinery for several more...
Interesting. I had never heard of Ray Dahlinger before, and also never knew of a Cote Motor Co., which turns out to be a rather grand name for...
The Novi was the bespoke chassis for the Winfield V8 engine in postwar years. At some point in the sixties, and I suspect Andy Granatelli wasn't...
That's not a Novi, it's the old Miller-Ford chassis with the Winfield V8 stuffed into it.
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