John;
I'll bet someone was picking splinters out of his butt for days!
Regards, Neil Tucson, AZ
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-land-speed@autox.team.net
[mailto:owner-land-speed@autox.team.net] On Behalf Of John Burk
Sent: Friday, October 14, 2005 9:22 PM
To: land-speed
Subject: 1906 Lakester
This week's Old Cars Weekly had a picture of the Stanley Brothers 1906/7
Dewar
Trophy "lakester" . With the skinny tires and the 3 foot wide <====>
shaped
body it looks as slippery as any modern lakester . The frontal area was
9 sq
ft. including the tires . 1300 psi steam pressure . Nothing timid about
those
guys . It broke in pieces after a 150 mph crash . Maybe that's why we've
stopped using wooden chassis .
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