As a lover of cars, the history of speed and an avid canoeist... I had to share this. The World’s Fastest Canoe by Erik Sobel http://www.steamcar.net/stanley/fastest.pdf
Pretty cool, thanks for bringing that to my (our) attention. I never knew anything about that before reading your link.
...............and you can see it in the Smithsonian. Several running replicas of the car are out and about. Bob
There was a woman on antiques roadshow yesterday who was Fred Marriot's granddaughter, she had all kinds of medals of his from racing, and a personal book of his that documented nearly all serial numbers of Stanleys that left the factory while he worked there. They valued the book at $5000, but I would think it could be worth more than that to the right guy. It was really neat to see. Most people have never even heard of the guy.
It's kind of funny, this story reminded me that back in the mid 70's when I was a Boy Scout our troop went to northern Minnesota on a canoe trip. My dad was the Asst. Scout Master and he drove his '72 Chevy C10 from northern Illinois. He had a cap on the back of the truck and a canoe tied on top. I'll never forget how excited he was when he figured out that he got better gas mileage with the canoe on top of his truck than without it. Sorry about the hi-jack and now we return you to your regularly scheduled program. Doc
Not too often that one finds an LSR car article in a canoe magazine... Really a shame, just a little more aero/downforce expertise and that car'd have set a record no one would have touched for decades...
Here are some related links. Bob http://www.jaylenosgarage.com/search/?tag=Stanley http://www.stanleysteamers.com/photoalbum/chuk/beach-rocket.JPG http://www.stanleysteamers.com/photoalbum/chuk/beach-rocket2.JPG
Interesting thing is it was not a failure of the motor but that technology of the time with boiler building and pipes conecting it to the motor that let the boiler come lose and wreck the car
As I remember the story the Stanley brothers used to enjoy wood carving, and made models of different body designs. They would test then on the flat roof of the factory on windy days. Bob
Neat story.......thanks for posting. I also saw the lady on Antiques Road Show......I wonder if the Stanley Steamer people (club) have the basic same information contained in it.
Wow! "The first person to reach me was a doctor who first set my eye back into it's socket. To this day it's the better of the two." Crap, the testicles on that guy! Neat story I never knew about! I'm not too hip to east coast stuff with regards to automotive history, but this is bitchin'.
Grew up with a couple of his nephews, one looked just like him, the other was quite a motocrosser...must be genes. Neat story, now to check out the links.
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