Jim, You said you can' t mount a roadster body backwards for
streamlining .
I am sure that is very true ...... nowadays ! However, this HAS been
done !!!
Some years ago, I saw an article on the dry lakes, and there, big as
life,
was a photo of a ' 29 roadster with the body actually mounted BACKWARDS !
This was a meet in the post war years, or early Fifties, and I think
it might have been sanctioned by either Russetta, or Cal - Neva , and the
car looked ridiculously stupid, as you can imagine, and the caption under the
pic mused about what length would these ( crazy ) hot rodders go to .......
to make their race car go faster .......
As dumb as it looked, it might have made that oddball ride a wee bit
faster,
and I wonder if anyone else on the list ever actually saw this car at the
lakes ?
This would have been a REAL head turner ....... and ran LONG before
drag racing' s backward bodied " Back Up Pickup ", and the name of the fun
loving team that ran it must have settled into the dust of that dry lake many
moons ago . We won' t see another like it ever run ....... but as they say
nowadays ........ somebody has " Been there ..... Done that "
Truth is stranger than fiction / There' s nothing new under the sun /
They said it couldn' t be done
Bruce
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