I'll throw some Miller engine **** in here, just because I have some. A pretty transmission too They sound cool too, more gear and supercharger whine than exhaust.
Another book, also hard to find and often expensive: The Golden Age of the American Racing car, by Griffith Borgeson. He owned one of the Packard Cable cars, and put wrenching scenes of the restoration into several Fawcett Hot Rod books, as well!
Same here. My grandfather was a R&D engineer with Westinghouse from the 1940's to the early 70's and I can clearly remember him wearing a 2 or 3-piece suit and then donning a full jumpsuit whenever he needed to work on something around his or my Dad's shop. I rarely saw my grandfather without a tie and never saw him without a collared dress shirt. Life was more formal then and I don't necessarily know if our more casual ways today are better. I don't have to wear a tie to work but I do if for no other reason than to be respectful to my profession. I have that same pix of Harry Miller in a book or two and I find it very compelling to ponder the scene and of course, the genius of the man.
I have a bunch of Miller pictures. I'll pic out a few of my favorites and post them as I find them. There is so much to learn and copy from the construction of these cars. Tom
Man he made some really neat stuff. It's nearly a lost art form of sorts. Now cars are all plastic jellybeans. No soul.
dunno, the Franco cousin was Miss World 1927 and hotter 10 years later I got the impression from reading that book Goosen was mostly the designer and Miller more entrepreneur.
It is to bad that many of the Miller's get chromed, there were a few orginally done in blued metal (rad shell, ch***is bits), instead of chrome. It must have been a sight.
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