History Comp Coupes, All but forgotten?

Lonnie Butts packing the chute for the Twitch-A-Wee Competition Coupe. The Dragmaster One Thing competing in AD can be seen on the left. Note drive gears hung on front axle as ballast.

 

Drilled the axle to lighten it, then bolt on a bunch of weight???

 

Trackside tuning. Might not need it all the time, use what you've got. Seems pretty reasonable to me.

 

John P. Reid Roofing

 

Leffler & Loukas Special

 

The second car is Loukas & Presing. Neil Leffler not involved with this car.

 

Shocks look useless to me.^^

 

maybe to keep the front up,longer. Or a softer landing??

 

Possibly. I would like to know the thinking on how they are mounted.

 

Not everyone had a trick that worked , or right. Hard to tell what a lot are thinking, when the do it.

 

Except for when it did a BIG wheelstand.

 

That was my thinking too. They probably weren't too concerned about cornering or body roll, but softening a big smack down might have seemed pretty important. Or they might have used 90/10 shocks to maintain weight transfer and their chosen location made the mounting light weight along with fast and easy to build.

 

Or maybe just to pass tech

 

That would certainly be my guess.

 

The late Bruce Woodcock in the Rakers car club comp coupe. ^

 

What's with 8 exhaust pipes on one side?

 

That is the shadow of the drag link passing over the pipes, making them appear to be dis-jointed. Look closely.

 

Nailed it.

 

i got to see the batto car , run a few years ago at bakersfield, impressive, now i understand its apart again i think. i also was told by somebody on the hamb that that is still the original body from back in the day.

 

hoping to see some hambers in pomona jan 24 th threw rhe 26th 2020, were taking the bantam to the grand national roadster show, for the early drag racing display! thanks to speedway motors and the museum of american speed in lincoln nebraska. so far there are over 100 early race cars registered for the show! its going to be good! hope to see some of you there! stop and say hi.

 

Rd, I've seen that Crosley myself at the CHRR, odd and cool at the same time.
Not sure if I've actually seen it run, may have been a cackle car, I've been to Famoso so many times I can't keep the who, what, when straight.
We might have walked right past each other there.

 

lm sure we did!

 

wonder what motor is in that bantam above? the 141 car?

 

i like the bead on the wheel opening too!