Eddie Miller Lakester returns???

Word on the street is that this fascinating machine is back? Let's dig up the archives...

 

This car may be the first with a lay down motor, the Pontiac 6 was set at 30 degrees off center. It was in the 1949 SCTA show that got a 4 page feature in Automobile Industries magazine April 15, 1949. there is a full feature and cover photo in Hot Rod as well

 

It belongs to a well known SCTA racing family and is on display at thier shop. Engine photo from there attached

 

Thanks Rich, that lightened radiator upper support is a nice feature.

 

Here's a neat shirt with the Miller lakester...

http://www.cafepress.com/brewerepublic.387022633

 

Man that thing looks like late 30's Auto Union would have developed. Soooo rad.

 

By and far my favorite lakester.

 

I agree, I think it's completely under-appreciated and deserves more attention.

 

If you do a search I believe there is a vedio of the car running at a Lakes Meet.

 

Oh my!
I like that underslung and reversed rear axle/drive assembly! Any details on that???

 

Two previous threads on the car.




http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=45580&highlight=eddie+miller+jr
Sadly the pics are missing. Nows the time to repost them


http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=301908&highlight=eddie+miller+jr

 

courtesy of that thread...





GO TO THAT THREAD...AWESOME!!!

 

These are some picture I took at Don Ferguson's shop during the Rod Riders yearly get together a couple of months ago. The car is just full of very neat ideas and fabrication.

Rex

 

Glad to see its on its way back....... I saw it a few years ago in Colorado at Kustom Auto
with a lot od work to be done. Great car !! love the pre-quick change set up !!

 

By the looks of the Burnett cutaway, the rear end drive is chain driven?

 

Yep the casing at the back housed the chain drive.

 

Fascinating machine...those meticulously drilled drum edges, minimal backing plate, and I don't know where the brakes came from either. Just a treasure chest of ingenuity and forward thinking. So much attention paid to a lower CG, and keeping the minimum of airspace below the car. All in all lightweight for the time, car deserves a book written about it...

 

Is there a CV joint in that bag in front of the transfer case?

 

Hi all I just posted Rick Rucker's recent encounter with the Eddie Miller lakester; you can read it here:
http://automobiliart.blogspot.com/2010/01/did-i-just-see-captain-nemos.html

Cheers
Paul

 

God i love that car!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

'51 or '52 Motorama

 

What an absolute work of art!

Pete-

 

Definitely one of my favorite cars of all time. Too bad it did not perform as it was hoped to perform. I see it was at the GNRS this year also still in bare aluminum.

 

Guys, In the issue number 10 of Hop Up there a was a very nice pictorial of this car. It had a lot of detailed build pix from back in the 40's. Old Mort sure bad a great last issue.

41 Dave

 

That story was written by Jim Miller, Eddie's son. There is a lot of history in that family, Jim's grandfather was the AAA steward who oversaw the records attempts of Campbell, Jenkins and others. Eddie did much of the work on the Hilborn car that was first over 150 at the lakes and rebuilt the car following the crash.

Jim is the historian for the American Hot Rod Foundation, president of the Lnad Speed Historian Society and very active at El Mirage and Bonneville.

 

I'm really digging that little bomb. So much ingeneuity going on. Everywhere you look there is a cool idea to solve a problem.

Frank

 

Looking forward to this car being done for the Pebble beach show. I won't be there but it will be good to eventually see it done.