Chain drive must have been the hot set up. Remember the world's first car to
set the record over 200 mph , ahem, SUnbeam, used two big old Matabelle
aircraft engines of 22000 cc each! Yep 44 litres. ANd guess what it used
chain drive and had wire wheels to boot! The two engines were couples
together vis a coupling shaft that ran along side the driver and it had a 3
speed gear box. A whopping 1000 hp...
mayf, out in pahrump...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ed Van Scoy" <edvs@yahoo.com>
To: "atrav" <atrav@vcmails.com>; "LSR list" <land-speed@Autox.Team.Net>
Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2004 7:30 AM
Subject: Re: Babs scans
> < Dig the chain drive, 27,031cc engine, and the hand
> pump for the fuel.>
>
> Decapitated by the drive chain!? THAT will ruin your
> whole day..................
> Ed
>
>
> --- atrav <atrav@vcmails.com> wrote:
>
> > In my Sisyphus like quest to clean out all this
> > junk, I found an old AutoCar magazine that has a
> > good article on the resurrection of Babs.
> > In case that doesn't ring any bells, Babs was the
> > early land speed record car that was literally
> > buried, then resurrected. Dig the chain drive,
> > 27,031cc engine, and the hand pump for the fuel.
> > All the scans are around 200kb to 300kb, so a little
> > big. And as always, that picture resizing
> > feature in IE will screw up the pictures.
> > -Aron-
> > http://www.cpu-net.com/host/atrav/babs1.gif
> > http://www.cpu-net.com/host/atrav/babs2.gif
> > http://www.cpu-net.com/host/atrav/babs3.gif
> > http://www.cpu-net.com/host/atrav/babs4.gif
> > http://www.cpu-net.com/host/atrav/babs5.gif
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