Front Wheel Drive Roadster?

[BHR301]

I know that 4-wheel drive roadsters are illegal but is there anything in the rules to keep one from building a front wheel drive roadster?

Bill

[SPARKY]

It might hit that "In the Sprit Of" brick wall!! 

[krusty]

     What about a Miller in Vintage Oval Track? 

[RichFox]

There is a front wheel drive roadster running in Modified roadster

[jimmy six]

Can you document one originally manufactured by a  USA company for public purchase and use?  That would make a good start.

[BHR301]

Not a project I really want to start right now...but with the success of Black Salt Racing I just was thinking it might be a way to improve the handling of a roadster, better to pull then push.....

Bill

[4-barrel Mike]

Can you document one originally manufactured by a  USA company for public purchase and use?  That would make a good start.

Not being a smart azz, but huh? 

I'm unaware of any rear-engine roadsters manufactured by a USA company (between 1923 & 1938 anyway) for public purchase and use, and yet they exist in the LSR world.

Mike

[modelAsteve]

Carter Lloyd from Mass. ran one a couple of years ago.

[John Burk]

The first I guess was Jim Culbert's in the late 50s . Lots of scrub radius so it probably wasn't fun to drive .

[NathanStewart]

I think the large success from copeland has not only been the fwd but the many, many hundreds of pounds of down force the nose of his car makes. I don't see how'd you do that in a roadster. Worth a try if its on your dime. 

[4-barrel Mike]

It's late and "Shakey" (Neil Young biography) is keeping me up and enthralled, but couldn't a FWD roadster have a "duplicate" of the Black Salt MS FWD nose?

Mike

[NathanStewart]

A mod roadster maybe but not a regular roadster. The wheels would have to be outside the nose of course and I think the key to copelands down force nose is its sheer size. You could try to put a nose that wide and that big on a mod roadster but it'd be fugly as sin.

[Tman]

A mod roadster maybe but not a regular roadster. The wheels would have to be outside the nose of course and I think the key to copelands down force nose is its sheer size. You could try to put a nose that wide and that big on a mod roadster but it'd be fugly as sin.

I think if you could pull off a modern version of the Chet Osgood Roadster nose it would work.

[jimmy six]

4-barrel.. Those are modified. BHR  said roadsters. I differentiate, streets are streets, modifieds are modifieds and roadsters are gas/fuel hiboys roadsters to me.....guess I'm still back in the 50's......

[tortoise]

The question was about roadsters, not mod or rear engine mod roadsters. Is it against the rules or not? If it's against the spirit of the rules (a good argument for that could be made), shouldn't that be made explicit?