Fastmetal
There were several in the early fifties with the bodies on backwards.
One of the reasons rear engine roadsters were banned was because of the
aerodynamics sucked when these roadsters got backwards, most got upside down
because of the lift across the back of the TEE Body.
Glen
FastmetalBDF@aol.com wrote:
> 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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