Re: Backsliding

[Ken Ames <ameskg@xxxxxxxxx>]

According to Amazing AMC Muscle (page 172+) the American Spirit never did a
record run. The original Spirit of America jet car ran in the early 60s so it
couldn't have gained it's nose from the America Spirit. In fact the SoA had been
retired and the 600 mph record was set with the Sonic I in 1965.
:)

Ken Ames

> 
> The "American Spirit" was a (slightly obscure, overshadowed by Breedlove's
> later attempts in rocket and jet cars) land speed record attempt by Breedlove
> with AMC as a sponsor. They broke the Class B record by going 407 mph with a
> sleeved 390 block. I made a post that got lost, apaprently, will have to
> retype the particulars and try again! This was in a three wheeled car that
> Breedlove built. The forward fuselage was later used for the jet powered
> "Spirit of America".
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> On December 1, 2005 Mahoney, John wrote:
> >>
> Now if you'd said how the 50 Ford and 50 Rambler were
> almost the same car, I'd have had an answer for you!
> <<
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> How was what George Romney called "the car of the future" when he first
> viewed
> one in the late 1940s --- a new Nash that weighed (despite sheet metal
> sheathing its wheels) as little as 2430 pounds (2006 Toyota Prius weighs
> 2890)
> --- related to Ford?  Well, it was a Rambler, not Diplomat, and the Dodge
> brothers, having taken stock in lieu of the $5,000 a cash- strapped Henry
> couldn't afford to pay them, once owned 10% of Ford (and their stock was not
> sold until after WWI...), so that's a "Six Degrees of Some Sort of
> Separation," 
> unless Frank referred to the "America's First Compact Car" claim that Nash
> could make because Ford couldn't.
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> <SNIP>
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> If "'Spirit of America' runs" means AMC-prepped-by-Traco-and-Breedlove-
> team,
> Craig's fastest speed in an AMX (in Class B) was a 75-mile flying start of
> 174.295.  (Using that term more precisely, one would mean -jet propulsion-
> and, 
> ahem, considerably higher speeds...)  
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