Re: [Land-speed] Car Spins

["John Burk" <joyseydevil@comcast.net>]

Jim Culbert crashed his modified roadster in 1957 so he built another one 
with front wheel drive . Being a pioneer he didn't know the scrub in the 
jeep hubs and wheels would be a problem . He got the record even though it 
didn't go very straight . It inspired the Summers to build the Polywog and 
the front drive was an exact copy including the scrub and the handling . By 
1965 when they built the Goldenrod they had the scrub problem figured out . 
For some reason no successful front drive roadsters that I know of has been 
built even though it's of more of an advantage to a roadster than a 
streamliner .
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