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Post by srx660 on Sept 26, 2009 19:17:10 GMT -5
While i would not attempt to build a wood body trike , i did find the engine placement interesting in this one. I would like to know more about it if anyone has more info on it.    SRX660 |
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Post by tryota on Dec 3, 2012 0:49:12 GMT -5
Wow what a work of ART very inspiring good job .
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Post by ericgarland on Dec 20, 2012 15:32:41 GMT -5
i like the wood and it is most deff. a work of art
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Post by tryota on Apr 30, 2013 2:22:04 GMT -5
Chetitty Chetitty bang bang
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Post by stretchmobileski on Apr 30, 2013 20:23:29 GMT -5
If I remember right the builder is/was in the Navy.
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Post by stretchmobileski on May 14, 2013 0:37:58 GMT -5
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Post by Giovanni LiCalsi on May 30, 2013 1:37:15 GMT -5
In 1906 the Stanley brothers built the Stanley Rocket Race Car. It was steam powered and was a world record fastest car speeding to 127 mph on the Ormond Beach, Florida. It had a lightweight 2-cylinder 30hp steam engine and a 30" x 18" boiler making 800psi. The body was made out of wood and canvas. The Stanley twins pulled various inverted canoe designs on a trailer, towed behind their Stanley roadster steam car. They wanted a canoe with the least amount of wind resistance. They were really on the cutting edge of steam car design and testing. They eventually chose a canoe with a radius curve on the rear of the canoe and a sharp vee shaped front end. They cut the canoe in half and separated the two halves to create a thingypit for the race car driver, Fred Marriott, and placed the canoe on an 18" high slab-sided monocoque chassis, similar to a reverse-trike Morgan. Mr. Morgan being the Stanley twins contemporary, later on used this same body technique for his Morgan car. This is an ideal body design for a car, due to the fact that the canoe body sections can be removed for servicing the drive train and the lower section of the slab sides and chassis are the structural component of the car and does not need the canoe body for a rigid structure.  |
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Post by stretchmobileski on Sept 30, 2013 1:50:46 GMT -5
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