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61. Re: What's Up? (score: 1)
Author: Want1937hd@aol.com
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 17:44:19 EST
Could someone check the frontal area of a 1929 Miller front drive Indy 500 race car. I'd like to know how that car compares to current LSR cars. Bob in connecticut << I still plead ignorance on this
/html/land-speed/2001-11/msg00126.html (8,868 bytes)

62. Re: What's Up? (score: 1)
Author: Flowbench@aol.com
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 17:45:25 EST
<< I suppose and 7sq. ft. sounds like alot. >> I think you'll find that the Golden rod was 11 sq. ft. But the smaller the frontal the better. Ask Jack. Mike /// /// land-speed@autox.team.net mailing
/html/land-speed/2001-11/msg00127.html (8,635 bytes)

63. Re: What's Up? (score: 1)
Author: "john backus" <34ford@msn.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 19:42:18 -0500
Drmayf, have you been sipping juice of the cacti? John Backus p.s. Do you ever run into Art Bell in Pahrump? What a wonderful question! Think about it! Could be TOWED! Inagine a tow rope that is fibe
/html/land-speed/2001-11/msg00131.html (9,042 bytes)

64. Re: What's Up? (score: 1)
Author: "glen barrett" <speedtimer@charter.net>
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 16:57:04 -0800
I think one of them Nevada rattle snakes bit him and when he tried to suck out the poison it affected his thought process. The only know cure for snake bike is Jack Daniel's. Sip until feeling good.
/html/land-speed/2001-11/msg00133.html (9,795 bytes)

65. Re: What's Up? (score: 1)
Author: "Richard Fox" <v4gr@rcn.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 17:09:48 -0800
It looks like my '41 Ford GAA V8 would fit into about a 10 Sq. Ft. rectangle. 41 tall by 34 wide. Seems like most drivers would fit into that shadow. Hard to imagine the Golden Rod at 11 Sq. Ft. Rich
/html/land-speed/2001-11/msg00134.html (9,896 bytes)

66. Re: What's Up? (score: 1)
Author: "Nafzger" <nafzger@vtc.net>
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 19:18:56 -0700
This is an interesting topic to me. My new car is just over 7 sq. ft. including the exposed tire section and the vertical fin. Some people have commented how big it is. It's real easy until you try
/html/land-speed/2001-11/msg00137.html (9,252 bytes)

67. Re: What's Up? (score: 1)
Author: ardunbill@webtv.net
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 21:50:40 -0500 (EST)
Rich, just saw a reference to your Ford V8 tank engine in my Ford Aviation Legacy book previously mentioned. Says Ford's original intention was a V12 Aero engine to improve on the Allison and RR Merl
/html/land-speed/2001-11/msg00140.html (8,899 bytes)

68. Re: What's Up? (score: 1)
Author: "Nafzger" <nafzger@vtc.net>
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 20:20:03 -0700
I went back east in Sept. and one of the things I did was spend some time with my favorite uncle who was commander of a tank destroyer battalion in WWII. He finished the war in a MK 18 tank destroye
/html/land-speed/2001-11/msg00144.html (9,788 bytes)

69. Re: What's Up? (score: 1)
Author: john robinson <john@engr.wisc.edu>
Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2001 07:32:32 -0600
I have the Goldenrod data sheet in my hands, picked it up from Saltair when the Goldenrod was being displayed there I think in 1998...c/d .117,, frontal area 9 ft2,, ground clearance 5 inches,, widt
/html/land-speed/2001-11/msg00150.html (10,233 bytes)

70. Re: What's Up? (score: 1)
Author: john robinson <john@engr.wisc.edu>
Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2001 08:51:02 -0600
One of the questions I have is about the Red Head , if you know the car, it was swoopy, kinda exaggerated coke bottle Corvette shape. I was wondering about the drag behind the wheel humps, if it wou
/html/land-speed/2001-11/msg00152.html (12,202 bytes)

71. RE: What's Up? (score: 1)
Author: "Albaugh, Neil" <albaugh_neil@ti.com>
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 10:32:20 -0600
Back in the very early 60's, I was in a Corporal Missile unit in Germany. Our missile transporter was made by LeTorneau (sp?) and it was powered by a tank engine which drove AC & DC generators. Motiv
/html/land-speed/2001-11/msg00156.html (10,855 bytes)

72. Re: What's Up? (score: 1)
Author: "Richard Fox" <v4gr@rcn.com>
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 08:59:52 -0800
Back in the early 60s I was a spec 4 in a signal company. But there were armor units around and they had air cooled flat 6 cylinder and air cooled V12 engines that I was told were built by Continenta
/html/land-speed/2001-11/msg00159.html (10,852 bytes)

73. RE: What's Up? (score: 1)
Author: "Albaugh, Neil" <albaugh_neil@ti.com>
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 11:06:45 -0600
"Continental" sort of rings a bell-- I'll bet that was what it was. BTW, I was in Babenhausen (near Ashaffenburg) and then in Hanau. Kinda scarey back then with the Soviets putting up the Wall, wasn
/html/land-speed/2001-11/msg00160.html (11,502 bytes)

74. Re: What's Up? (score: 1)
Author: john robinson <john@engr.wisc.edu>
Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2001 11:20:31 -0600
then a streamliner shape similar to the Feuling streamliner would be one of the better shapes? I know that there is discussion concerning round body shapes ala Teagues' liner v/s flat bottomed liner
/html/land-speed/2001-11/msg00161.html (12,266 bytes)

75. Re: What's Up? (score: 1)
Author: Skip Higginbotham <saltrat@pro-blend.com>
Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2001 11:32:04 -0600
I like the round bottom shape because it reduces the shear problem. Shear can be largely avoided by putting the body very close to the surface also. The flat bottom car can also make effective use of
/html/land-speed/2001-11/msg00162.html (9,165 bytes)

76. Re: What's Up? (score: 1)
Author: "DrMayf" <drmayf@teknett.com>
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 09:39:37 -0800
Naw...I bit the snake! It died shortly there after.....Unfortunately sour mash makes me deathly ill so I have to imbibe in clear stuff like gin or tokillya. mayf -- Original Message -- From: "glen ba
/html/land-speed/2001-11/msg00163.html (9,016 bytes)

77. Re: What's Up? (score: 1)
Author: "Bryan A. Savage Jr" <basavage@earthlink.net>
Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2001 09:45:39 -0800
John, there are some basic rules I've learned about this. 1) It's easy to poke a hole in air. 2) It's almost impossible to CLEANLY un-poke the hole. (Look at the front and back of a 747.) 3) Once you
/html/land-speed/2001-11/msg00164.html (10,565 bytes)

78. Re: What's Up? (score: 1)
Author: "Richard Fox" <v4gr@rcn.com>
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 10:07:00 -0800
RE: What's Up?Neil; I was at Yakima Firing Center while the wall was being built. Apparently it was felt that the Yakima Indians in the area were in need of an occupying force during the crises. It m
/html/land-speed/2001-11/msg00165.html (11,586 bytes)

79. Re: What's Up? (score: 1)
Author: john robinson <john@engr.wisc.edu>
Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2001 12:15:05 -0600
Howdy, I'm not familar where in the web it might be, maybe one of the other listers know, when you see it, you'll see a real "streamlined" shape from the 50's,,looks great from a nostalgic streamline
/html/land-speed/2001-11/msg00167.html (8,925 bytes)

80. Re: What's Up? (score: 1)
Author: john robinson <john@engr.wisc.edu>
Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2001 12:19:51 -0600
Howdy, but the coast downs should be done on a highway to be accurate with the equations used....the Salt has an unknown rolling resistance. lets go out on hiway 80 and make some runs.....nice a flat
/html/land-speed/2001-11/msg00168.html (9,270 bytes)


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