Likewise.. I think it drank as much oil as gas on the last stop!

..Or open the wastegate and dump the shards out the exhaust pipes!

How would a turbo failure stop a car dead? Slow it down, certainly with no boost , but kill it? Short of a broken impeller swallowed by the oily bits, I can’t see the scenario.

Tail heavy.. How appropriate

DOD ordered 1 million purple heart medals as part of the provisioning for operation Olympic.

That generation was awesome..

Is there a power curve or BSFC plot? I don’t have an SAE subscription ,but would like more technical p00p.

The French Army used flathead V8 trucks well into the 70's

The Flatfire Bonneville car did that. I think it almost made 500hp IIRC

Turbocharged gasoline engines had long been in use in aircraft at that time , and compounding (directly coupling exhaust energy to the crankshaft )had been done also.

Flight magazine’s archives are a treasure trove of knowledge.

You got sandbagged. That’s a notorious job on those cars. Contour.org has the p00p on that one.

Foyt’s 1967 car had rear end lift. When they tested it in Ford’s wind tunnel the engineers told him not to put it on the track! This, the car he had just won the Indy 500 with!

There was a ton of clever thinking in the T. The pallets that the transmission was shipped in was specifically designed without nails in the center, so the boards became the floorboards, and the trimmings became Kingsford charcoal.

A hot air paint stripper is the best for starting charcoal and has many other uses

Squirrels are rats with better P R..

If it had been a Lotus , they’d still be picking pieces up!

Specify a maximum fuel flow rate and set a hefty maximum displacement. Make sure the fuel allotment specifies a good MPG figure. Let’s see a 8 liter / 6500rpm vs. 4liter/9000 rev V6's, 2liter turbocompounding Wankels. Hell, let’s see a turbine again!

Ortiz? A triple? Did he bend time for him to run that far?

Sounds like a big dose of niacin.