That must have been one VERY lonely and boring trip.
John Sims, BN6
Aberdeen, NJ
www.healey6.com
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From: owner-healeys@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-healeys@autox.team.net] On
Behalf Of pennell@cox.net
Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2006 9:52 PM
To: healeys@autox.team.net
Subject: Healey and car related
Listers,
On a recent trip alone to NC I had plenty of time to think about stuff.
Most of it not too productive - just staring down the highway.
For some reason the following came to me. Suppose you take a car in good
condition and the front end aligned perfectly. With both front tires
pointing straight imagine a line running along the pavement straight ahead
from the center of both front tires.
Now the steering is changed such that the front of both front tires are 1/8
inch left (or right) of exactly straight. After one revolution of the tire
how far to the left (or right) of the centerline is the center of the tire
now displaced? For simplicity, assume the tire has a diameter of 24 inches.
Keith Pennell
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