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Puzzle #1923 - Calvin Rice's slingshot, built by Melvin Dodd
« on: March 03, 2011, 06:08:11 AM »
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Re: Puzzle #1923
« Reply #1 on: March 08, 2011, 04:32:13 AM »
Experts?
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Re: Puzzle #1923
« Reply #2 on: March 15, 2011, 04:32:09 AM »
Seems our Experts find 1/4 mile machines a drag, too...
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Re: Puzzle #1923
« Reply #3 on: March 15, 2011, 06:36:44 AM »
This is the Calvin Rice driven JE Riley and Son dragster that won the driver the first National Championship in the NHRA.  It seems like it was 1955...  Apparently, the crew had to bolt in a spare, not quite right transmission to make the finals, which they did in the nick of time!
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« Reply #4 on: March 17, 2011, 06:26:09 AM »
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Re: Puzzle #1923 - Calvin Rice's slingshot, built by Melvin Dodd
« Reply #5 on: August 16, 2022, 10:52:40 AM »
Old picture of the slingshot:
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