Pointless & impractical vehicles
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Reynard
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- Cambridgeshire, UK
I saw that and was going to post it, but you beat me to it LOL!
Reynard
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- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
Back to the debate about gas turbine-powered racing cars, another one (that I didn't know about) popped up on an Oulton Park FB group I'm a member of, as it competed in the 1968 Gold Cup meeting (and the BOAC 500 at Brands).
The US-made Howmet-TX sports prototype. Driven in the UK by quite an interesting character called Hugh Dibley.
But looking that up then led to another discovery...
The equally US-made STP-Paxton USAC (indycar), designed by Ken Wallis, a relative of a certain Barnes "bouncing bomb" Wallis.
So they *are* out there, not just the much better known Lotuses and BRMs.
The US-made Howmet-TX sports prototype. Driven in the UK by quite an interesting character called Hugh Dibley.
But looking that up then led to another discovery...
The equally US-made STP-Paxton USAC (indycar), designed by Ken Wallis, a relative of a certain Barnes "bouncing bomb" Wallis.
So they *are* out there, not just the much better known Lotuses and BRMs.
Jenkins
Legendary Member
- Location
- Felixstowe
Jameshow
Guru
I do therefore believe Skoda's were tanks before Volvo's!🤣
Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
Hang on a minute, aren't the forks the wrong way round? 
Seevio
Guru
- Location
- South Glos
Think how much faster he could have gone if only he'd noticed.
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
Instead of all thst money spent modifying anaerodynamic (for its day) Merdedes they could simply have used a van.
Andy in Germany
Guru
- Location
- Rottenburg am Neckar
Hang on a minute, aren't the forks the wrong way round?
Perhaps the Mercedes stopped suddenly.
Dogtrousers
Lefty tighty. Get it righty.
José Meiffret. Set a 204 km/h motor-paced record then, naturally, became a Trappist Monk.
https://veloaficionado.com/blog/trapist-monk-jose-meiffret-the-fastest-cyclist-in-the-world
Edit: Slight mistake above. He became a monk before setting the record. (But after surviving a 124 km/h crash on a concrete velodrome)
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