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1. Pollywog (score: 1): Author: "John Beckett" <saltracer@servusa.com>; Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2004 13:37:35 -0400; Talking about FWD cars...guess Herbert's new ride would be considered such...does anyone remember the Summers Bros. Pollywog? Had a 300" Chrysler in it I believe. How fast did it ultimately go? Did i; /html/land-speed/2004-07/msg00348.html (7,154 bytes)
2. RE: Pollywog (score: 1): Author: "Dave Dahlgren" <ddahlgren@snet.net>; Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2004 13:59:45 -0400; I thought it was alive and well and jiom travis restored it or was it a different 'Pollywog' ?? Last i heard it had an injected ford in it Ardun i thought.. Dave; /html/land-speed/2004-07/msg00351.html (7,791 bytes)
3. Re: Pollywog (score: 1): Author: "Glen Barrett" <speedtimer@charter.net>; Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2004 11:51:40 -0600; The polywog did set records and as I recall over 300. The car is now owned by Tim Rochlitzer and is being restored to run again. Even being a front steer, front drive it had wierd steering habits. T; /html/land-speed/2004-07/msg00352.html (7,866 bytes)
4. Re: Pollywog (score: 1): Author: "Glen Barrett" <speedtimer@charter.net>; Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2004 12:16:19 -0600; Your thinking of the Streamliner that Bill Burke built. It originally had a Falcon 6 cyl. engine. Jim Travis rebult the car and is running an Ardun in it.His son Randy and Danny Thompson got in the; /html/land-speed/2004-07/msg00355.html (7,558 bytes)
5. Re: Pollywog (score: 1): Author: "John Beckett" <saltracer@servusa.com>; Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2004 14:25:47 -0400; I think your referring to the "pumpkin seed". JB -- Original Message -- From: "Dave Dahlgren" <ddahlgren@snet.net> To: "John Beckett" <saltracer@servusa.com>; "Land Speed List" <land-speed@autox.tea; /html/land-speed/2004-07/msg00356.html (8,268 bytes)
6. Re: Pollywog (score: 1): Author: "John Burk" <joyseydevil@comcast.net>; Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2004 18:03:52 -0400; The Pollywog handled poorly - Bill Summers said Bob was shakey every time he climbed out after a run - Bill said it needed an anti-roll bar but excessive scrub radius may have been a biger problem .; /html/land-speed/2004-07/msg00359.html (6,988 bytes)
7. Pollywog (score: 1): Author: Jimwprice@aol.com; Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2004 20:06:17 EDT; I read some old correspondence between Bob Summers and Noel Black who was getting information to assist in building his liner in April 1968. Noel asked Bob about the Pollywog handling and Bob said th; /html/land-speed/2004-07/msg00360.html (7,164 bytes)
8. Re: Pollywog (score: 1): Author: Bryan Savage <b.a.savage@earthlink.net>; Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2004 20:47:53 -0700; Don Gartlets built a dragster to solve a problem he was having. The problem was bad enough that it caused a serious crash. The problem was torque steer, caused by the widely separated drive wheels wa; /html/land-speed/2004-07/msg00364.html (7,607 bytes)
9. Pollywog (score: 1): Author: Jimwprice@aol.com; Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 22:38:04 EDT; I finally found Bob Summers actual quote from his letter to Nolan Black in What was the Pollywog car handling characteristics? The single engine car was unstable at speeds up to 200 MPH due to inadeq; /html/land-speed/2004-07/msg00379.html (6,979 bytes)

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