Glen,
You've never been out on the race track, have you??...'-0
Maybe this was used as a BBQ for a while before it got "parted"...'-)
Gerard
Gerard
At 12:48 PM -0700 10/9/00, Glen Byrns wrote:
>A question to the list:
>Is there some form of spridget racing that would not require the use of
>front brakes?
>
>When I bought the Morris, I also bought the front end of a spridget.
>Everything forward of the motor mounts had been torched off a wrecked race
>spridget. It had the upgrade springs, tube shocks, heavy sway bar, 7/16"
>studs, the works. What struck me when I was pulling off the front hubs to
>send to another lister was that there were no rotors, calipers, or brake
>lines. Well, I thought, they might have pulled that stuff off after the
>wreck and carefully replaced the hubs/bearings/dust caps so they wouldn't
>lose them. Wrong.
>From the grease and dirt evidence, absence of scraping around the
>appropriate holes, and finally from the corroded-into-place plug in the
>front brakeline hole in the splitter it was clear that this car had been
>operating without front brakes. Can anybody shed some light on this strange
>observation? I know shaving weight on a race car is important, but I'd
>throw away the doors before I gave up the front brakes.
>
>Regards,
>Glen Byrns
>'59 bugeye
>'59 Morris Traveller (Winifred)
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