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BARNEY OLDFIELD'S NEW SAFETY RACER 367
in which the veteran driver
expects to clean up on the races
during 1917. Of the same lines
as the great 12, it will have a
four-cylinder, 16-valve Miller
motor, developing 130 horsepower,
with its 3?,s x 7-inch
cylinders. The entire engine is
cast out of aluminum, the
pistons and connecting
rods being installed
and removed
from the bottom,
and t li c r e being
therefore no removable
side plates.
It is the bo d v,
however, that will
make the railbird sit
up and try to keep
both eyes from popping
out. Many motor-racing
injuries and fatalities occur
from the car rolling over and pinning
driver or mechanic below. Barney says
you can roll his car over without any
fatalities to those inside!
Instead of the familiar racing body,
these two cars are completely enclosed,
strong aluminum plates carrying the
stream line of the hood right up over
the driver and mechanic and continuing
One of the Gigantic Cylinders of the Racer's
Motor
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down to the taper tail. The
spectators will see no man at all,
nothing but the gray lines,
broken in front by a thin, screencovered
slot through which the
driver looks.
This slot runs
around the curved
body in front of the
driver, like the slot
in a conning tower
on a battleshi p.
Strong, fine screen
covers the slot, to
keep out pebbles and
other objects that
are thrown up by
other cars, and
which at high speed
of car. hit like bul­
lets. Behind the
wire runs a strip of
celluloid that winds on rollers at either
end. This the driver or mechanic can
wind up and unwind to remove the dirt
and oil that gather on it. The fine screen
breaks the wind pressure enough to permit
the use of the flexible celluloid.
Instead of sitting beside the driver, the
mechanic sits ten inches behind him and
slightly to his right, which makes for a
narrower body and less air resistance and
obviates the swaying against the driver
caused by taking sharp curves. The
WHEN THIS TWELVE CYLINDER MOTOR HELPS ESTABLISH A NEW RECORD. IT WILL
BE INSTALLED IN AN AEROPLANE
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