Word: engineeer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The fans obviously disagree. Last year 1,500,000 of them turned out to watch 167 drivers compete for $1,045,545 in prize money on the Grand National circuit. and 65,000 were on hand for last week's Southern 500. The cars they saw whipping through Darlington...
Mix It Up. To rival drivers, Petty is known as a "charger," who likes to blast ahead, full-bore, from the start of a race, hoping opponents will overtax their engines trying to catch him. He is also an innovator; he invented the dangerous art of "drafting"-keeping his car...
Chrysler is also de-emphasizing basic design changes and making only minor adjustments in the Dodge Coronet and Plymouth Belvedere. An exception is the Dodge Charger, which has junked its fastback styling and taken on a pair of swept-back wings joining the roof to the rear deck. Plymouth will...
A mechanical wizard named Felix Wankel invented it in 1954, but it took NSU 13 years of tinkering to bring the "Wankel engine" to its present stage. It is a non-piston gas engine consisting of a three-cornered rotor that swirls in a combustion chamber shaped like a fat...
An early version of the Wankel, used in the NSU Spider sports car since 1964, proved sufficiently promising for NSU to go ahead with the venture and commit virtually all its resources to it. Meanwhile, 17 firms, including Curtiss-Wright Corp. and Outboard Marine Corp. in the U.S., Rolls-Royce...