No apologies necessary… good thing I had just finished my morning coffee! Might have ruined my new tablet…
Gary's statement about "roundy round" racing and street driving being a different world are not incorrect. Steering ratio, caster, camber, king pin inclination, et cetera needs for the street aren't going to be the same as those for racing. Track conditions before, during, and after a night of racing are irrelevant to street driving. We are building street cars here; not dirt track race cars. "Roundy round" is probably a regionalized term. Acceptable names or phrases used in New York aren't always going to be the same as what's used elsewhere, such as in Nebraska.
Yes, I and my family are from New York we spent time in South Carolina in fact my father was friends with "Slick" Johnson he and his father were very well-respected racers who raced dirt late model, All-Pro trucks, and had their own the ACAR series/NASCAR Wiston Cup car, they never used the term. New York state is big 5 to 6 hours east to west a little less than that north to south. Western NY is very different form where I live in upstate just as Long Island different from here. I know racers both modern and vintage (and period correct hot rodders) from all over this state New Jersy, New England, Pennsylvania, Delaware and a few in the mid-west. and none of them use the term Roundy Round is not acceptable with racers. But many of the people that are weight in here have absolutely no knowledge of the history of these parts. Schroeder steering box (cowl exit steering) are race car parts and were designed to be used with axles and in the early days buggy springs, when caster and king pin inclination was not changed. This set up was used and went to victory lane at Indy for years! Of course, the ultimate irony here is the three fastest cars in my club are running stock early Ford front axles as they left the factory buggy springs, and cowl steering. Lower with a longer pitman arm-
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