In answer to how big can a race car be, Dr. Owen is too modest to tell you
that he is the driver/racer of a 27 Litre liberty engined Land Speed
Record car
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From: greenman62@hotmail.com <greenman62@hotmail.com>
To: simon@mondes.com <simon@mondes.com>; vintage-race@autox.team.net
<vintage-race@autox.team.net>
Cc: Gregory_Schulz@mil-elect-tool.com <Gregory_Schulz@mil-elect-tool.com>
Date: Thursday, November 11, 1999 02:29
Subject: Re: How big can a race car be? (Was: Unleaded and all that)
>>From: Simon Favre <simon@mondes.com>
>>Reply-To: Simon Favre <simon@mondes.com>
>>To: Vintage Race <vintage-race@autox.team.net>
>>CC: Gregory_Schulz@mil-elect-tool.com
>>Subject: How big can a race car be? (Was: Unleaded and all that)
>>Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 14:47:52 -0800
>>
>>Out here in the west, we have a certified FIA Comet that ran the
>>East African Safari rally, and then did duty as a family car for
>>many years before going back to racing. John Kerby-Miller has a
>>whale (literally) of a time in it. For true dueling Titans, you
>>need to catch the action of the Fabulous Hudson Hornet of Ivan
>>Zaremba dicing with a '51 Caddy. Elephants on parade! ;=)
>>
>>OK, so you were in a Sprite on the track with the Chevelle. The
>>Hornet-Caddy duel was being dogged by a group of 3-wheel Morgans!
>>I liken that to fleas chasing a dog...
>>
>>Gregory Shulz wrote:
>>
>> >By the way, at a Midwest Council vintage event
>> >(at Blackhawk Farms Raceway, IL) 10/16-17 I was
>> >in my '58 Bugeye Sprite competing with, among
>> >other things, a '64 (or '65) Chevrolet Chevelle coupe.
>> >
>> >It was a documented bonafide (sports car classed)
>> >racer from many moons ago. Not only was this car
>> >brutally fast and cornered like it was on rails - when
>> >he passed me I felt like I was being blown away by
>> >a 3 story building. (He was using leaded petrol, btw.)
>> >
>> >How big can a vintage race car be? What's the
>> >biggest vintage racer anyone's ever seen? A couple
>> >years ago at RA I saw a 50-something Mercury (?) sedan
>> >running around the track for some reason or another...
>
> Back in the Pleistocene, there were a number of road race cars
> fitted with aircraft engines. Among them was some Italian
> creation that had a 15 litre engine. I may have been an Isotta.
> I remeber reading an aritlce about it having an outing at the
> Colorado Grand or some suche event like that several years ago.
>
> Of the cars I'e acutally seen, the speed six Bentley I saw
> running at the Philadelphia Historic Races was positively huge.
> But, there was an American LaFrance racer that ran in a noontime
> exhibition there that may have been bigger.
>
> Greg
>
>Greg Petrolati Champaign, Illinois
>1962 TR4 (CT4852L)
>
>That's not a leak... My car's just marking its territory...
>
>
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