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Mayf - Don't know for sure if the car still exists but I suspect it is
salted away among the builders' keepsakes.
Ed Weldon
----- Original Message -----
From: "Larry Mayfield" <drmayf@mayfco.com>
To: <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, July 11, 2014 8:22 AM
Subject: [Land-speed] Seeking Information on vehicle and current owner
> What I am looking for is information on who the current owner of the
> current
> steam record holder, the Barber Nichols car that ran in 1985 and set the
> SCTA steam record and where that car is located, if it still exists.
> Why
> am I interested? Well, this year will conclude the Sunbeam efforts I have
> had under way for a long, long time and I need something to fiddle with.
> No, I don't think I would campaign the car, but, maybe to kind of restore
> it
> and to see how it actually works. Steam is a growing interest with me.
> Why?
> Well because I think that modern applications of control systems,
> materials
> and designs could improve steam usefulness. Especially in the automotive
> world. Maybe so, maybe not.
> So, please shoot me any and all information regards the current or last
> known owner(s), contacts and where the car might be located and I will be
> in
> your debt. No matter how old the information might be.
> Many, many thanks!
> mayf
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