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The Obscure and Unusual cars thread.

Judge said:
Whew...I'd have loved to watch any of Andy Granatelli's turbine engine race cars at the Brickyard. :cool:

One of racing's greatest cars with one of racing's greatest drivers, Graham Hill.

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Somewhere in the archives, I have some images I captured of Gil de Ferran's Formula 1 ride that were taken in my parking lot about 20 years ago.
 
Nitro said:
Somewhere in the archives, I have some images I captured of Gil de Ferran's Formula 1 ride that were taken in my parking lot about 20 years ago.
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I recall his Indy car around that time. A Penske Honda- right? But what was his Formula One ride?

LOL...you have to rate to be a driver for Roger. I used to follow Formula One, but frankly that was decades ago. Guess I saw one too many big names get killed. Glad to have seen Jackie Stewart at Laguna Seca though. One of the few greats to make it out of the sport alive. I love that.

RIP Graham Hill
 
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Judge said:
I recall his Indy car around that time. A Penske Honda- right? But what was his Formula One ride?
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Now that I think about it, it was a CART ride, not F1, so I stand corrected.
 
Nice thread. I didn’t realize this was here.

This is the only car race I’ve ever been to, but I went to all of them when my brother was still a Scout.

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Judge said:
Love Wynns rails. Remember Don Garlits' Wynn's Jammer? :cool:

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Nice.
IV was part of the nitromethane fuel ban years.
It has a 413 edge engine in it and ran on methanol.
Garlits lost a part of his foot in an incident involving a driveline failure which in turn ushered in the rear engined rails he built to mitigate the potential disasters from the diggers.
 
Judge said:
Love Wynns rails. Remember Don Garlits' Wynn's Jammer?
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I still remember how every kid on the block built the 1/25 scale AMT model of this rail.
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Nitro said:
Garlits lost a part of his foot in an incident involving a driveline failure which in turn ushered in the rear engined rails he built to mitigate the potential disasters from the diggers.
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I always wondered who or what started that trend with rear-engine unlimited rails.
 
Forest Cat said:
Never been to a race? That's a shame, everyone should try it. You should have tried this with me, everything is more fun when it's sideways. :D

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I was being groomed for formula racing as a kid, but went to straightline racing because I already owned a lot of the equipment.


I had a Bondurant instructor teach me how to drive the corners.
 
Some just don't get the fascination others get by piloting an ill handling and hard to get stopped dinosaur of a car that is powered by 1952 to 1964 technology.

The new stock stuff would destroy any of the musclecars from that era, but that really isn't the point if what you are after is a white knuckled ride into hell :p
 
Nitro said:
Some just don't get the fascination others get by piloting an ill handling and hard to get stopped dinosaur of a car that is powered by 1952 to 1964 technology.
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Yep, back when it really was "stock car racing".

When the best trained drivers ran moonshine except on race day.

NASCAR today is well...."something else".
 
Judge said:
Yep, back when it really was "stock car racing".

When the best trained drivers ran moonshine except on race day.

NASCAR today is well...."something else".
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I hate Formula NASCAR now

The car of tomorrow is a template based machine with a sticker package to make the lights match the engines.

When they got too fast and started to fly like airplanes, the first rule change should have been downgrades to units based on what was sold on the showroom floors.
Race on Sunday and sell on Monday.
As in only 6 cylinder engines based on stock parts.
 
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This was where I got my first taste of dragracing.

It was an airstrip that was sold off when it relocated nearby.

I was only 12 at the time, but knew it was something special.
PID still exists in a delapidated state since it was shut down.

I found a Bill Truby image of the christmas tree (starting tree) that I intend to duplicate for my home.
 
I remember yeas ago when I was commissioned to refinish a 1925 Franklin sedan

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Franklin built air cooled aircraft engines, so it came as no surprise that they used them in their cars too.
It had an inline six cylinder engine that displaced about 200 cubic inches and produced a whopping 100 horsepower.

My Dad's 1941 Taylorcraft was built with a 65 horsepower Franklin designated as a BF-12D.
The Franklin 65s were notorious for failures, so when it was timed out, it was replaced with a 65 horse Continental and the designation was altered to a BC-12D
The D designation was for having a full headliner in the cockpit, something my Dad exploits by flying his with no doors.
 
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