[modeleng] Re: Steam-powered car speed record

  • From: "RICHARD GAYS" <RICHARD.GAYS@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2006 17:09:40 +0100

Surely the photo shown has the rear half of the bodywork missing? All that 
streamlining at the front, then completely open rear wheels!

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jesse Livingston" <fernj1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, October 09, 2006 12:23 PM
Subject: [modeleng] Re: Steam-powered car speed record


> Maybe they needed the extra weight to hold the car on the road????
>
> Jesse in Tennessee
>
>
> That is what I thought David! You would have thought that they would have
> made a greater effort to keep the "gross" weight down, the same way the
> jockeys are so small for horse races. Perhaps they should have enlisted 
> one
> of the Hobbits from THAT film ..... Unless she is part of the sponsorship
> deal of course, bearing in mind that she has had no previous experience of
> this sort of thing.
>
> Tony Wells.
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