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This
is a picture taken behind
M/T's shop in Anaheim
California. I studied
this picture very close and have found five known and one possible
known car. The enclosed trailer in the very right of the picture
houses the Ford LSR Streamliner
which was built and tested in 1967-
68.
This car is now in the position
of Danny Thompson who hopes someday to go for the record.
In the center of the picture is one of the two 1967
Indy cars M/T had at Indy. The car was a
front engine front wheel drive with 4 wheel steering.
The car in the lower left side of the picture sitting on the trailer
with a tarp over it is one of the 1963 Indy cars
M/T had at Indy. I belive in 1963 M/T had built three new cars one
being the "Harvey Aluminum
Special" which had a titanium chassis.
And if
you look very close directly beside the box on top of the 1963 Indy
car you will see the edge of a body which I belive could be a Bonneville
car named "The Pumpkin
Seed" originally built
and raced by Blake and then bought
and altered by Mickey Thompson. I saw this car in 1993 in a
warehouse in LA full of Micky Thompsons cars.
The next
car which is hard to see, but laying on its side directly
behind what I belive is "The Pumpkin
Seed" is a tubular
chassis which looks like another one of the 1963 Indy cars. The
reason I think it is one of the 1963 Indy cars
is because we have one of the chassis at our shop and it looks just
like the one in the picture.
The last
car
in this picture is the Assault I
a car M/T used for land speed records in 1960's.
This car is partially behind the Indy car chassis
just its nose and front wheel can be seen. This car has been restored
and is in the Petersen
Museum.
If anyone has
any additional information about any of these cars we would like to
add it to our web site. We feel there is a lot of people out there
interested with one of the Biggest names in motor sports, a man who
was the true King of SPEED. Having held over 600 National and
International speed records there are few others who can say the same. |
