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Tuesday, March 29, 2011
The first front wheel drive car, the 1905 Christie 4 cylinder Vanderbilt cup racecar
Posted by korekore at 7:40 PM Above photo from http://steampunkvehicles.tumblr.com/ Walter Christie was involved in the engineering of many other vehicles, steamships, submarines, aircraft and fire engines coincidentally, and this past weekend I and Justacargal were examining the one at the Nethercutt museum just North of Los Angeles in the San Fernando valley: http://justacargal-s.blogspot.com/2011/03/1913-christie-fire-engine.html
the 3 some of race cars at the 1908 Minnesota state fair is from http://steampunkvehicles.tumblr.com/
At one time, it had a second engine on the rear wheels, in the same transverse powering it's own axle
Labels: 1905, brass era, Vanderbilt Cup
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