[SEL] OT : Unknown Chain Drive Car circa 1916

[Richard Strobel]

Mark I was thinking maybe one could find some info in one of Floyd Clymers 
books.  There are quite a few on ebay now.

Just a thot

RickinMt.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Shulaw" <frappi at wcoil.com>
To: "The SEL email discussion list" <sel at lists.stationary-engine.com>
Sent: Friday, February 15, 2008 8:18 AM
Subject: Re: [SEL] OT : Unknown Chain Drive Car circa 1916


> Thank You everyone thats written. The actual builder of the car may never
> be known but the suggestion by Elden to look at Vanderbilt racers was a
> good one. I see lots of similarities on those cars to the one we are
> looking at. The pic sent by Al of the American Lafrance Speedster has
> striking similarities to our mystery car. I've read that many of the
> builders or owners of cars started with a basic car design and striped it
> down to rolling chassis and rebuilt to suit. But like today some parts 
> were
> bought from builders that made certain things like mufflers, or built 
> their
> parts after other peoples designs, or their own ideas making different 
> cars
> look similar due to requirements of race rules and needs to win. I have
> been looking more at the frame, wheels and suspension to determine
> similarities. As in todays Nascar cars the body designs are similar due to
> profile length and height rules. So right or wrong in the case of the old
> cars I look at the less likely to have been changed things like frames,
> wheels and suspension. And in this case Chain Drive.  Sheet metal and
> mufflers are too easy to change.
> A bit more info on the picture She said her grandfather (now passed) said
> it was taken in Dubuque, Iowa  But like so many of us, at the time when 
> the
> info was available for the asking she was not interested in the details
> enough to ask more.
>   I'll keep you updated when new info turns
> up.                        Thank You, Mark
>
>
> <http://www2.wcoil.com/~frappi/UnknownCar.jpg>
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> <http://www.tomlaferriere.com/1914_Brass_Era_American_lafrance_speedster_simplex.htm>
>
>
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