Jeepers! What an insane ride! I can't believe the SCCA let the thing run,
period. Titanium valves, graphite pushrods, Ford rearend, 5 link rear
suspension... like to see them try to enter a vintage race now -- ha!
Brave man to take that thing on the banking with no rear spoiler -- maybe
it has ground effects? The one thing that makes that 185mph figure
remotely believable is the tiny frontal area with that nonexistent
windscreen. It may have cleaned up on Corvettes but it probably cost
twice as much to build. Huh.
Still, I suppose it is in the spirit of some of the wilder pre-war MG
racers, like the R.
Kai M. Radicke had this to say:
>http://www.theoldone.com/oldies/The_Killer_B.html
>
>Have any of you older readers, sorry - I'm far to young!, seen this car at
>the track in the 70s? Can you supply any more info or accounts of the
>action? :-)
>
>Maybe BMC should have outsourced (to the private sector) some of their
>racing effort production/engineering in the early 60s!
>
>Cheers,
>
>--
>Kai M. Radicke -- kmr@pil.net
>1966 MGB -- 1974 Triumph TR-6
>http://www.pil.net/~felix (pix soon)
>
>
>
--
Max Heim
'66 MGB GHN3L76149
If you're near Mountain View, CA,
it's the red one with the silver bootlid.
|