Bruce,
Why do you think "mounted in a conventional manner" was introduced into the
book?
Jim in Palmdale, where it got damp but never really rained.
----- Original Message -----
From: <FastmetalBDF@aol.com>
To: <Want1937hd@aol.com>; <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 1:32 PM
Subject: WRONGWAY BODIES ALREADY DISCUSSED HERE
> :
> Subj: BACKASSWARDS ? THAT HAS BEEN DONE !!!
> Date: 11/30/00 5:12:14 PM Pacific Standard Time
> From: FastmetalBDF
> To: jdincau@qnet.com, land-speed@autox.team.net
>
>
>
> Jim, You said you can' t mount a roadster body backwards for
> streamlining .
> I am sure that is very true ...... nowadays ! However, this HAS been
> done !!!
> Some years ago, I saw an article on the dry lakes, and there, big as
> life,
> was a photo of a ' 29 roadster with the body actually mounted BACKWARDS !
> This was a meet in the post war years, or early Fifties, and I think
> it might have been sanctioned by either Russetta, or Cal - Neva , and
the
> car looked ridiculously stupid, as you can imagine, and the caption under
the
> pic mused about what length would these ( crazy ) hot rodders go to
.......
> to make their race car go faster .......
> As dumb as it looked, it might have made that oddball ride a wee bit
> faster,
> and I wonder if anyone else on the list ever actually saw this car at the
> lakes ?
> This would have been a REAL head turner ....... and ran LONG before
> drag racing' s backward bodied " Back Up Pickup ", and the name of the fun
> loving team that ran it must have settled into the dust of that dry lake
many
> moons ago . We won' t see another like it ever run ....... but as they
say
> nowadays ........ somebody has " Been there ..... Done that "
> Truth is stranger than fiction / There' s nothing new under the sun /
> They said it couldn' t be done
> Bruce
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