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Offline N72727

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Re: Proud American Land Speed car???
« Reply #45 on: November 24, 2010, 02:32:53 AM »
Another photo with the Proud American from a French magazine. The Proud American was sold recently with his fantastic transporter.

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Re: Proud American Land Speed car???
« Reply #46 on: November 24, 2010, 11:22:19 AM »
You can tell that photo is old.  Check out all the custom vans in the background. Good days!!!

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Re: Proud American Land Speed car???
« Reply #47 on: November 24, 2010, 03:38:42 PM »
The magazine is from 1972. A car show somewhere in California.

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Re: Proud American Land Speed car???
« Reply #48 on: November 24, 2010, 04:32:23 PM »
The car was on display at El Mirage last year, it's a mock up as I was told.
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Re: Proud American Land Speed car???
« Reply #49 on: June 02, 2011, 12:47:07 PM »
This looks to me what we call here in Australia a "Dorothy Dixer"...... When one member of parliament asks someone from their own party a question...which is really just an excuse for the second member to talk endlessly on their chosen subject ..invariably themself....

So, Paul Is on Gas asks " oh my, what is this marvelous machine from the Golden Age of LandSpeed Racing that all you ignoramuses have over-looked"...

up steps Mr Mayonaise...""why it's funny you should ask Grasshopper, sit yourself down on the rug and let me expound"...

How bored are you Franklin?.....

Sorry bud way off base.

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Re: Proud American Land Speed car???
« Reply #50 on: June 02, 2011, 07:33:30 PM »
the car you are asking about is a mock up.
it never ran.

the car and hauler where sold at one of the Barrett jackson auctions ether last year or the year before. :cheers:
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Re: Proud American Land Speed car???
« Reply #51 on: September 23, 2016, 09:37:17 AM »
def. a cool transporter
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Re: Proud American Land Speed car???
« Reply #52 on: September 23, 2016, 10:39:41 AM »
I've seen a couple of these in used car lots, and just last week passed one that was parked at WalMart.  Different paint job, though. :roll:
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Re: Proud American Land Speed car???
« Reply #53 on: September 23, 2016, 11:40:20 AM »
How many went back & read the whole thread here & found a big fat W.T.F. situation drowning in paranoia. I'm surprised that "Mayoman" Dick Keller of "The Blue Flame" still comes to the forum!
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Re: Proud American Land Speed car???
« Reply #54 on: September 23, 2016, 06:23:00 PM »
Sad, funny and true.... 5 years later.
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Re: Proud American Land Speed car???
« Reply #55 on: September 28, 2016, 09:58:06 AM »
What was really sad for me was watching the cab-forward LSR transporter being sold at auction years ago. It marked the absolute end of an era - maybe for the better.
The LSR car was a modified version of an LSR proposal by Craig Breedlove. He showed Tony Fox his idea for the next LSR attempt in his long career, in the form of a scale model. That was always Craig's modus operandi. Tony built the fiberglass mock-up (that's all that was) after modifying Craig's model design by moving the "cockpit" to the rear of the car.

Tony Fox was an entrepreneur showman, and Ky Michaelson built that unique transporter to "stage" the LSR mock-up. He did an outstanding job, in my opinion, as it is still a striking sight today.
I watched the transporter being auctioned on TV with a little nostalgic twinge - and called Tony to let him know what happened. Tony passed away soon afterward - the end of a somewhat controversial era.

I still recall the 1974 SCTA Bonneville Nationals when we brought the monocoque rocket car (a lakester by definition?) to the safety inspection tent. We were running "capped" Goodyear speedway tires on the drag strip, but planned to use Goodyear Bonneville motorcycle tires for FIA standing start records (1/2 kilometer and 1/4 mile). The SCTA inspector was horrified when he asked Tony about the capped tires on the car. Tony responded, "We want to see how fast they will go!"
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Re: Proud American Land Speed car???
« Reply #56 on: September 28, 2016, 02:33:58 PM »
does anyone know where that transporter is now?