Author Topic: Solved: FW #19 TXP Townsend Experimental, H Mod racing car (Read 2768 times)

D-type · « **Reply #26 on:** November 16, 2020, 02:27:31 PM »

Chevrolet powered?

fromwien · « **Reply #27 on:** November 16, 2020, 03:31:06 PM »

D-type · « **Reply #28 on:** November 20, 2020, 05:19:18 PM »

If not Chevrolet-powered, was it perhaps Ford-powered?

fromwien · « **Reply #29 on:** November 21, 2020, 03:42:30 AM »

No, also not Ford-powered...

D-type · « **Reply #30 on:** November 21, 2020, 06:16:21 AM »

Although built in the USA, was this car powered by a European engine?

fromwien · « **Reply #31 on:** November 21, 2020, 08:35:39 AM »

D-type · « **Reply #32 on:** November 21, 2020, 01:13:36 PM »

Not Chevrolet, not Ford, was it Offenhauser powered?

fromwien · « **Reply #33 on:** November 21, 2020, 01:38:02 PM »

D-type · « **Reply #34 on:** November 21, 2020, 03:51:37 PM »

That leaves only Chrysler doesn't it?

fromwien · « **Reply #35 on:** November 21, 2020, 04:29:02 PM »

Sorry, I have to disappoint you: Not a Chrysler-engine

D-type · « **Reply #36 on:** November 21, 2020, 05:54:35 PM »

Well, that's all the US makers eliminated (the "Big three" plus Offenhauser) so was it a Japanese engine?

fromwien · « **Reply #37 on:** November 21, 2020, 06:29:46 PM »

Zerk · « **Reply #38 on:** November 22, 2020, 12:01:27 AM »

Perhaps a Buick engine, as used in other sports-racers of the period?

fromwien · « **Reply #39 on:** November 22, 2020, 06:38:58 AM »

No, not powered by a Buick-engine

mekubb · « **Reply #40 on:** November 22, 2020, 08:21:04 AM »

Oldsmobile engine ?

fromwien · « **Reply #41 on:** November 22, 2020, 08:34:08 AM »

Not Oldsmobile-engined

mekubb · « **Reply #42 on:** November 23, 2020, 04:31:56 AM »

Cadillac ?

fromwien · « **Reply #43 on:** November 23, 2020, 06:52:46 AM »

Also not Cadillac

D-type · « **Reply #44 on:** November 23, 2020, 03:43:17 PM »

From a General Motors company?

fromwien · « **Reply #45 on:** November 23, 2020, 03:53:35 PM »

Zerk · « **Reply #46 on:** November 23, 2020, 06:30:47 PM »

Perhaps a Crosley engine?

fromwien · « **Reply #47 on:** November 23, 2020, 06:38:54 PM »

Zerk · « **Reply #48 on:** November 23, 2020, 08:37:23 PM »

This is the TXP H-Modified sports racer, built by Bruce Townsend. It used a Crosley engine mated to a 5 speed Lancia transmission and drove through a modified Studebaker rear axle.
The front suspension is Morris Minor. Construction is tubular space frame with alloy panels, and the body is fiberglass, resembling a smaller D Jaguar of the period.

fromwien · « **Reply #49 on:** November 24, 2020, 03:48:40 AM »

Correct! Congratulation! Here is your next point!

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