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Re: Loosing a wheel

To: jaboruch@netzero.net, triumph_marx@freenet.de
Subject: Re: Loosing a wheel
From: BillDentin@aol.com
Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 18:20:31 EST
In a message dated 11/01/2004 4:59:19 PM Central Standard Time, 
jaboruch@netzero.net writes:


> Subj:Re: Loosing a wheel 
> Date:11/01/2004 4:59:19 PM Central Standard Time
> From:jaboruch@netzero.net
> To:triumph_marx@freenet.de
> CC:fot@Autox.Team.Net
> Sent from the Internet 
> 

Amici:

I got passed by a wheel once.  I was having a great dice with an EXCALIBUR at 
Grattan many years ago.  We had already swapped positions three or four 
times.  I looked in my mirror and saw him about to pass me on the outside 
again.  I 
figured he had me, so I waited for the pass, but it never came.  BUT along 
came a wheel, which did pass me successfully.  Then I looked in the mirror 
again, and sure enough the EXCALIBUR had become a three wheeler, and was doing 
pin 
wheels behind me.

Gratefully the EXCALIBUR did not roll and was not damaged, because it is a 
very special car.  It was one of 4 or 5 EXCALIBUR racers designed by Brook 
Stevens in the early 1950s.  This particular one had a Willys engine.  Neat 
INDY 
ROADSTER looks, with motorcycle front fenders.  One of the others, the 
EXCALIBUR 
HAWK even had a big V8 engine.  That one, a fast back fixed head coupe, 
didn't like to stop or turn.  Brooks Stevens was an early member of the VSCDA, 
and 
the EXCALIBUR racers used to race often with us, driven by Brooks' sons and 
son in law.  Then Brooks passed away, and they were put away for ten or twelve 
years.  One of them was out and racing again this past summer, driven by Brook 
Steven's grandson.

Neat cars, but they too threw wheels.

Bill (Damdinger)

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