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Speedy Special #237 - Tim Rochlitzer's True Radius Bending Special
« on: June 13, 2012, 04:48:41 AM »
For one point, name this special automobile and its builder.

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Re: Speedy Special #237
« Reply #1 on: June 21, 2012, 04:49:18 AM »
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Re: Speedy Special #237
« Reply #2 on: June 21, 2012, 09:44:35 AM »
It's the Bennett & Rocklitzer Lakester. 

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Re: Speedy Special #237
« Reply #3 on: June 21, 2012, 11:24:35 AM »
Partway there. I have a longer-form name for this car.

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Re: Speedy Special #237
« Reply #4 on: June 21, 2012, 03:07:08 PM »
Do you mean D/Lakester?  'Course it might have been E/GL meaning [engine category] / Gas Lakester.  I don't know if they ever ran alcohol/nitro in that one, in which case it would have been E/FL.

Tim Rocklitzer's current car is called the "Raspberry Rocket."  See photo.  I believe it was a "maturation" of the previous car (with a hell of a lotta work put into it.)  He's run D/GL, D/FL and with a motor swap, C/GL and C/FL.  (He ran 302 mph with this engine.)

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Re: Speedy Special #237
« Reply #5 on: June 21, 2012, 03:50:15 PM »
You know this car and builder better than I. Here's what I have:

Tim Rochlitzer's True Radius Bending Special after arriving in Wendover for Speedweek in 1968. The car was powered by a 305" Chevy and ran in Class D Lakester. The record it was going after was 260.880 mph set by the Markley Brothers in 1966. By the time the rains came they had only gotten the car up to 173.41 mph and had to settle for a first in class as the Markleys didn't have time for an engine switch form the other class they were running in.

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Re: Speedy Special #237 - Tim Rochlitzer's True Radius Bending Special
« Reply #6 on: June 21, 2012, 04:13:48 PM »
Thank you....but that iteration of the lakester kinda predates me.  I was wearing green, baggy clothes at that time.  (I was in the army for those who don't get that.)

Here's a shot of it in the staging lane, obviously running in engine class E.



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