This has to be one of the most-terrifying rides there is. If it still has the 1964 Chevy van drum brakes, watch-out! It should be named 'Audaciousness.'
This one, I don't think there's too-much to-say, except to gape at it in open-mouthed amazement. "They wouldn't give me a license plate!"
Why did the dyno guys turn him down?
Just for comparison, the next vehicle is >100 years old! It's a famous actual race car, build and designed by one of the most famous, most-popular, and most-successful racers of the time, Barney Oldfield, with help from Harry Miller.
Miller was supposed to have studied the famous pre-WW I DOHC Peugeot Indy race car engines, and then he designed his-own DOHC engine, which was very-successful on the racing circuits. When Miller had financial troubles, Fred Offenhauser bought the business, and the Miller became the Offenhauser engine, which populated almost the entire field at the Indianapolis 500 and other Champ Car races of the day for more-than 20 years. It was the Indy-Ford and the Ford-Cosworth DFW which knocked the Offenhauser off it's long-time perch as 'the winningest engine' for open-wheeled competition under AAA and USAC sanctions (what many would call Indy Car).
This one, I don't think there's too-much to-say, except to gape at it in open-mouthed amazement. "They wouldn't give me a license plate!"
Why did the dyno guys turn him down?
Just for comparison, the next vehicle is >100 years old! It's a famous actual race car, build and designed by one of the most famous, most-popular, and most-successful racers of the time, Barney Oldfield, with help from Harry Miller.
Miller was supposed to have studied the famous pre-WW I DOHC Peugeot Indy race car engines, and then he designed his-own DOHC engine, which was very-successful on the racing circuits. When Miller had financial troubles, Fred Offenhauser bought the business, and the Miller became the Offenhauser engine, which populated almost the entire field at the Indianapolis 500 and other Champ Car races of the day for more-than 20 years. It was the Indy-Ford and the Ford-Cosworth DFW which knocked the Offenhauser off it's long-time perch as 'the winningest engine' for open-wheeled competition under AAA and USAC sanctions (what many would call Indy Car).
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