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Here's Adre' Lefebvre driving the Voisin Laboratorie in the 1923 Gran Prix de France. Bob, A wind propellor driven water pump is a drag in...
Bob, 1906 was quite a year. Park this next to the 1906 Premier and Maxwell and you have ....all the elements of a 1965 Porsche 911 engine. Is...
Would you agree that most of the "improving the breed" was done by the small engienes in this period that intersts us? Yes. In terms of engine...
]That is the Premier that is in the INDY 500 collection today, car may have started the drilled lightening hole trend. Not to mention that...
Paul,They all drink from the same cup. Hi Bob, Yes, and it is remarkable how quickly that cup got around before air travel, copiers,...
They are pretty. Kind of like a 1923 MB Tropfenwagen with a Fiat 806 engine. I am curious how Porsche copied the 806 when it only ran one race.
630 ft/lbs and 1600 lbs. And look, pushrods.....
Paul, it would be neat if there were more photos of Walter Christie's design. My favorite Christie shot in midtown NYC. Having driven...
They are two different cars, wonder if the 1907 GP car was a third or one of these upgraded? I think the first is in NYC in 1906 and the...
I wonder what Mr. T-Head could do with access to these toys... It's unthinkable.........we would all be driving new Mercers....
The same last Christie, this time in Florida in 1910 wearing a steamlined body. He was hoping for 130 mph, but it only ran 118 mph (with front...
I think so, the last Christie on the left was sold to BO for $750. It was oversquare , 7 1/2 X 7, with 30 inch con rods. More battleship...
The last Christie parked in front of the Firestone Tire dealer on 58th Street NYC in 1909. Unfortunately, this building is longer around, but...
519 East 18th Street, near the Hudson River. Hard to imagine going out to Brooklyn to see Depalma on the boards these days. NYC is about as...
No replacement for displacement. I don't think Carol Shelby ever met Walter Christie, but they had similar ideas. Each one of those cylinders...
So, the 1928 "A" would be it's own grandfather ? I thought those things only happened in Hollywood , after the fourth marriage.
If you are so angry about Borgeson's work, you should file a protest with the SAE, I can give you a few names. Perhaps there is someone who can...
Miller 6 cylinder SOHC aero engine, father of the 4 cylinder Sub engine. Looks fairly real, perhaps even metal, Harry and Bob in the background....
The Sub engine is four cylinder, the earlier six cylinder version was installed in Beachey's biplane by Fred Offenhauser who flew in it. Made up...
Borgeson implies that the specs for this motor were dictated by Lincoln Beachey, by referral from Hall, much like the specs of the VW were...
I can't see how anyone can look at the clear photo of the "Miller-Burman" engine on page 13 of Borgeson's Miller book and see a SOHC or a Peugeot...
My favorite tool is the old hammer with the replacement head and new handle......The existence of what Borgeson called the "Miller-Burman", not...
David, This engine raises the question of why did Miller chose this SOHC layout , when he had already built the Burman-Peugeot DOHC ( twin cam )?...
Mr. Weidely did design an oil pan, but it was to be worn by the driver. Was there another OHC engine in the US in 1904 when George drew this up ?
I was thinking the same on the Premier, my favorite car in the Indy musuem. Mine too, but with all those Millers it's hard to pick a favorite....
Starting the Blitzen Benz http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMa3_tT5mKA&feature=fvwrel Bob Burman did this with one hand
Maurice was the last person to drive a Bugatti in an F1 race. Ten years in F1, +80 starts, won Monaco twice, LeMans and lived well into his 80's....
Stirling Moss, Innes Ireland, Juan Manuel Fangio, Phil Hill, Dan Gurney and the Bee Gees.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wo8E2bBpnRY This explains it.
Did Art ever work for Tucker or Miller in the mid 30's? What do you think would spawn the comment we see in this letter? ZZZ, Jealousy...
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