[AT] AT Digest, Vol 39, Issue 6 cylinder Chevrolet

[Larry D Goss]

I remember the article, Claude, but I remember them running clockwise on a 
closed track that was something like 39 miles in length.  It was a bunch of 
country roads, all paved, and ran up and down hill.  There were specific 
periods where the car was coasting downhill with the engine off, specified 
speeds and gearing to be used on different sections of the track, right 
turns coasting around stop signs, tires were milled to narrow the contact 
area with the pavement, high pressure in the tires, a measured volume of 
gasoline in a glass tank suspended above the passenger seat, etc.  It was a 
standard vehicle in the same way that the ones used in stock car racing are 
standard vehicles.  They lightened it by taking off all the extras.  It was 
a coupe, but I don't remember whether it originally seated two or four.  It 
was a 30's vintage car (not new) and in those days it was common to take the 
back seat out for extra cargo capacity, etc.

Larry

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Sent: Monday, May 07, 2007 5:51 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] AT Digest, Vol 39, Issue 6 cylinder Chevrolet


> Hello list,
>
> Off topic.
>
> Don't think Chevrolet was ever into tractors.  (obligatory  tractor 
> comment)
> I  remember reading a Look Magazine article while  killing some time in a
> study hall in 1952.  It was about Chevrolet setting  a gas mileage world 
> record.
> 123 MPG I think. Two drivers manned a  special vehicle from New York to 
> Los
> Angeles.    Chevrolet used a stock engine from their  assembly line with
> special carburation,  a special two seat, light  weight vehicle. There 
> were a number
> of  things done to assure the best  fuel economy possible; coasting, 
> driving
> slow, etc. This information also  appeared in the Guiness book of world
> records for a number of years  afterward.  Anyway, now all the information 
> seems to
> be  gone.   Does anyone else remember this
>
> demonstration of fuel economy by Chevrolet?
>
> Claude
> Tontitown, Arkansas
>
>
>
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