[AT] Burn-outs like you've never seen 'em!

[Keith Kinney]

That and Allis Chalmers.

Keith Kinney
Associate Broker
Woodward Commercial Realty
Kkinney at woodwardrealty.com
Office 812-474-1900
Cell 811-454-6757

On Nov 14, 2012, at 3:03 PM, Mattias Kessén <davidbrown950 at gmail.com> wrote:

> AC?
> 
> Air Condition?
> 
> Mattias
> Den 14 nov 2012 21:52 skrev "charlie hill" <charliehill at embarqmail.com>:
> 
>> LOL yeah but didn't bother.  Heck I thought I was the only one left on this
>> list that cared about AC stuff.  grins.
>> 
>> Charlie
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Tom
>> Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2012 3:10 PM
>> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
>> Subject: Re: [AT] Burn-outs like you've never seen 'em!
>> 
>> Haven't ya heard of a scanner yet Charlie: :-)
>> 
>> Tom
>> 
>> --- On Thu, 15/11/12, charlie hill <charliehill at embarqmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> From: charlie hill <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [AT] Burn-outs like you've never seen 'em!
>> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com
>> Date: Thursday, 15, November, 2012, 8:57 AM
>> 
>> Good to hear from you Tom.
>> I had the same information but was too busy/lazy or both to type it all.
>> grins.
>> 
>> Charlie
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Tom
>> Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2012 2:02 PM
>> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
>> Subject: Re: [AT] Burn-outs like you've never seen 'em!
>> 
>> Been a while...
>> 
>> I think a fuller explanation of the speed issue is required:
>> 
>> I the early 30s Allis Chalmers were promoting low pressure rubber tyres and
>> encountering resistance. Then:
>> 
>> "The tractor division realized that it would have to do something
>> spectacular to break down resistance to and build public accept­ance for
>> air
>> tires.. Because most tractors were unable to go more than five miles an
>> hour, W. Elzey Brown of the advertising depart­ment thought of speed
>> racing.
>> Special high speed gears were installed in stock models of the Model "U"
>> tractor, and the first public speed test was made at the State Fair race
>> track at West Allis on June 18, 1933. Frank Brisko, a famous local driver
>> who had recently competed in the Memorial Day classic at the Indianapolis
>> Speedway, was the star in the auto races. The spectators could hardly
>> believe their eyes when an Allis-Chalmers tractor, which had been plowing
>> in
>> the infield of the race track, was unhooked from the plow, turned over to
>> Frank Brisko and then driven against time at 35.4 miles per hour. The
>> effect
>> was sensational. During the remainder of the summer, similar tractor races
>> were
>> advertised as attractions at many state fairs. The high point in this
>> series
>> of demonstrations occurred at Dallas, Texas, on September 17, 1933, when
>> Barney Oldfield, the veteran automobile racer, drove a Model "U" air-tired
>> tractor over a measured mile course at 64.28 miles an hour. The first man
>> to
>> drive an automobile at more than 60 miles an hour had also become the first
>> man to drive a tractor at more than a mile a minute. Because this event was
>> sanctioned by the American Automobile Association and timed by its
>> officials, it became an official A. A. A. record. In 1933 alone, more than
>> one million people saw these tractor races, and they were, in fact,
>> repeated
>> by popular demand for several years. With such famous drivers as Barney
>> Oldfield, Lou Meyer, Floyd Roberts and Ab Jenkins, the tractor races were
>> given top billing at many fairs."
>> 
>>                     "An Industrial Heritage" Walter E Peterson, Allis
>> Chalmers Corporation, 1975
>> 
>> Tom
>> 
>> --- On Thu, 15/11/12, charlie hill <charliehill at embarqmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> From: charlie hill <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [AT] Burn-outs like you've never seen 'em!
>> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com
>> Date: Thursday, 15, November, 2012, 12:37 AM
>> 
>> Barney Oldfield's record run was 64 mph.  Set in Sept. of 1933 on a
>> specially prepared AC U.
>> 
>> Charlie
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Chuck Bealke
>> Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2012 1:57 AM
>> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
>> Subject: Re: [AT] Burn-outs like you've never seen 'em!
>> 
>> Thanks, Mattias.
>> 
>> This guys turning his plowing machine into a racer reminded me of:
>> 1) Barney Oldfield's AC tractor (perhaps slower than the Terror)
>> promotion gig
>> 
>> http://www.firstsuperspeedway.com/articles/barney-oldfield-sets-tractor-record
>> and
>> 2) Lamborghini unsuccessfully suggesting his tractor transmission to
>> Enzo Ferrari
>> http://www.pixcom.dk/Lamborghini/story.htm   .
>> 
>> Age test:  Would you like to drive the Terror?
>> 
>> And Ralph, thanks for the Roosty video link.  Am getting to recognize
>> parts of your path across the fields and am guessing that bull is a Red
>> Poll.
>> 
>> 
>>  _|___\  __
>>  |_____/      \  ~ Chuck Bealke, Dallas
>>  (  )       \__  /
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