The extra irony is that Parry bought the car from Count Zborowski, who died in
an equally gruesome
accident himself, similarly cranium related. IMO it's rather spooky when you
look at the related
history of the Zborowski cars and family.
-Aron-
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ed Van Scoy" <edvs@yahoo.com>
> < Dig the chain drive, 27,031cc engine, and the hand
> pump for the fuel.>
>
> Decapitated by the drive chain!? THAT will ruin your
> whole day..................
> Ed
>
>
> --- atrav <atrav@vcmails.com> wrote:
>
> > In my Sisyphus like quest to clean out all this
> > junk, I found an old AutoCar magazine that has a
> > good article on the resurrection of Babs.
> > In case that doesn't ring any bells, Babs was the
> > early land speed record car that was literally
> > buried, then resurrected. Dig the chain drive,
> > 27,031cc engine, and the hand pump for the fuel.
> > All the scans are around 200kb to 300kb, so a little
> > big. And as always, that picture resizing
> > feature in IE will screw up the pictures.
> > -Aron-
> > http://www.cpu-net.com/host/atrav/babs1.gif
> > http://www.cpu-net.com/host/atrav/babs2.gif
> > http://www.cpu-net.com/host/atrav/babs3.gif
> > http://www.cpu-net.com/host/atrav/babs4.gif
> > http://www.cpu-net.com/host/atrav/babs5.gif
>
>
>
>
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