Recent content by manta22

My original post seems to have been removed arbitrarily. Ask Hobbs about his 10th place finish at the 1972 Riverside Can-Am. Tell him "Thank You" but we really would have preferred him to have been awarded that spot .

Back in 1954 our family lived in Mannheim. There was a program then that had the objective of providing "vacations" for some of the young German children of West Berlin to experience life outside that divided city. American military families could volunteer to host kids to live with them in...

One more story about John... In August 2006, I drove up to the Bonneville Salt Flats to attend Speed Week and experience the unique ambience of that strange place. John Horsman told me that a team from JCB would be there running a diesel-powered streamliner. John was familiar with that project...

Ask him about his Ferrari 512's finish in the 1972 Riverside Can-Am.:D

Loading my mid-engine race car on my aluminum tilt trailer entails loading it tail-first to get the proper tongue weight.

The American Southwest is a spectacular place but it can also be deadly to the unwary or unprepared. Fall or seriously injure yourself in the wilderness and you are in trouble. Contacting help by cell phone is frequently impossible in many areas and if you have a companion, the only option is to...

Get used to it. That will happen every time!

If you are anywhere near Wendover, UT. take a short drive out to the Bonneville Salt Flats. There is an upcoming Test & Tune event scheduled for June 28th and 29th.

I mounted a mirror on the left and right side. The black Mirage race car has no mirrors at all. You are out there on the course all by yourself at Bonneville. Many fighter aircraft use similar mirrors; a fighter pilot who isn't "checking his Six" all the time is a dead man.

Soylent Green!

I sold my last one just two days ago. Unfortunately, most of the big aircraft salvage yards here in Tucson are gone now, Those were the days! You might try asking airplane parts distributors or someone in the Experimental Aircraft Association.

My car originally had a Raydot mirror mounted on the top of each front fender. The view to the rear was totally worthless so I replaced them with two curved convex metal mirrors that I removed from the cockpit of an F-86 jet fighter here in a Tucson aircraft salvage yard. The curvature is close...

In a serious crash you may wind up with a belly full of splinters. Wood inlaid steering wheels are no longer popular for good reason.

Yes, if the wing is mounted behind the rear axle. It would take wind tunnel data to determine how it would work with a particular shape of the front of the body- does the shape generate downforce?