Model A How many 400 mph streamliners have you designed and built?
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NONE JMO
Gary Cole DCWATERJET Z
gary:
it is easy for those that don't have a clue to ridicule others.
motion I was covering speeds that al teague and nolan white wouldn't approach for another 20-years.
i guess that, in itself, is proof that motion I was a valid design.
i believe it was noel's intention to have flex in the streamliner's chassis.
mickey t's autolight 'liner was quite similar in design to motion, in that the front engine drove the front end while the rear engine drove the rear end.
driver placement was different.
mickey had an injected cammer up front with a blown cammer in the rear, which had the opposite effect on traction that motion did.
mickey t never approached the speeds noel did with motion.
nobody else approached the speeds noel reached for over 20-years!
criticism, however, will continue forever because everybody else has their own theory on why the car crashed.
most of those theories have been formed by those who have never set inside a land speed racer.
it used to be that it was commonly accepted that non-traditional approaches were embraced, or at least accepted.
now people don't seem to like non-traditional approaches to land speed racing.
this is why front wheel drive is frowned upon by those who want to push the rear of the car around the front; rear wheel drive is accepted because it is the way we've done it for years.
look at the competition coupe category.
how many cars have been built for comp. coupe that have looked beyond the chopped '34 or studebaker or some other stock body with a belly pan?
it's what has been run for years. so, it is accepted as the way it should be. even though there are some really small coupes out there that are smaller, without a chopped top, than some bonneville comp. coupes.
tom burkland is the only person who has taken any type of advanced steps in the use of body styles for comp. coupe.
there was a lot of scuttlebutt going around the salt in 1969, due to the article in the deserett news when burt and noel ran motion at bonneville raceway, about the
drag racers trying to break the land speed record... like everybody suddenly forgot about the modified roadster that burt and noel successfully built and ran, or the gas roadster before that.
for whatever reason, there has been a general negativity about motion I from the first time the car hit the salt.
that is why i attempted to "hijack" this thread by creating a new thread. there are too many out there that continue to call motion I the rhinoceros.
it is the general negativity about motion I; it was prevalent in 1969 and '70 and it continues in 2009.
i don't know if it was jealousy or what.
but, it is sad that that negativity continues almost 40-years later.
