[Land-speed] Couple of questions.

[Neil Albaugh]

No, Mayf, I don't remember any under 90 inch wheelbase cars. ...and that's 
the long and short of it.  :)

Regards, Neil  Tucson, AZ

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From: "Larry Mayfield" <drmayf at mayfco.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2011 10:52 PM
To: <land-speed at autox.team.net>
Subject: [Land-speed] Couple of questions.

> Any of ya'll ever had a custom crank fabricated for your motor?  I mean 
> from a raw forging or billet?  I am dickering with folk to do that or at 
> least to see what kind of pocket book pain that might bring. I was wonder 
> what kinds of costs are involved..anybody got any idea?
>
> Next is how fast have short wheel base cars gone as a max before? I am not 
> really keen or runing the sunbeam too much faster with it's 90 inch wheel 
> base, but Lightfoo drives the Alfa romeo to about 225 mph and that puppy 
> is only 84 inches. So, for those of you that still have some memory left 
> (mine seems to be hiding from me occasionally), you remember any fast, 
> short cars?  90 inces or less?
>
> Have a good night!
> mayf
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