Hi everyone!
As a very recent newcomer to this list, I have been sitting back and
reading all these ridiculous emails, with great enthusiasum.
BUT NOW!...after reading all this "stuff" about mounting a body
backwards..."just to make a darn car go faster"...I realized something!
HELL! YOU GUYS ARE AS CRAZY AS ME! HONEY I'M HOME...lol!
...(BUT that's jus' MY opinion!)
Y'all have a good night, you car-"NUTS"!...Ron Keller
>From: FastmetalBDF@aol.com
>Reply-To: FastmetalBDF@aol.com
>To: Want1937hd@aol.com, land-speed@autox.team.net
>Subject: WRONGWAY BODIES ALREADY DISCUSSED HERE
>Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 16:32:35 EST
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>:
>Subj: BACKASSWARDS ? THAT HAS BEEN DONE !!!
>Date: 11/30/00 5:12:14 PM Pacific Standard Time
>From: FastmetalBDF
>To: jdincau@qnet.com, land-speed@autox.team.net
>
>
>
> 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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