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RE: 1928-29 Ford Roadster bodies in LSR

To: "James Tone" <James.Tone@AES.com>
Subject: RE: 1928-29 Ford Roadster bodies in LSR
From: john robinson <john@engr.wisc.edu>
Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 12:08:39 -0600
my comment on the rear steer was mostly tongue in cheek.....I think it CAN 
be done, but needs fly by wire to do so....and that the powers that be will 
not allow yet, at least until the latest MB shows up with ITS fly by wire 
system.....


At 10:04 AM 1/4/2005 -0800, you wrote:
>By definition of an automobile it is. But every person that has built
>one and comes, so far in my 30 years, the technical folks at the meet
>have let them try it. Every single one has failed to my knowledge. This
>includes the last 2, One, a modified roadster and the other the Herbert
>Liner. Incidentally Andy Green saw it and said it would kill someone and
>from what I understand the driver would not get back in it and it has
>been destroyed. Hearsay....
>
>it is disappointing that the unlimited innovation of LSR has seen fit to
>
>limit rear steer.....
>
>I'm rebuilding my roadster totally and going back to my own engine
>program.  I learned a lot working with Joe Fontana over the last years.






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