Word: floorboards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hospital in 90 minutes; there would not be time for a devotional at home. Gordon Roberts pulled off the highway, the family clasped hands and prayed-among other things, for a safe trip. When Gordon started up again, little Philip was still on his knees on the front floorboard, singing one of his favorite hymns...
...Brakes. In Minnesota, eager Salesman Kenton Hicks, hearing of a deal he could close 126 miles away in Brainerd, rented a car, left Minneapolis at floorboard speed, was arrested in Robbinsdale, then St. Cloud, then Little Falls (each time for doing 100 m.p.h.), did not get to Brainerd...
...week the promoters decided to gamble again. Almost as if they had forgotten 1955's monstrous moment of tragedy when a crack-up spilled into the crowd and killed 83, they turned the drivers loose; a man could carry enough fuel to keep his throttle foot on the floorboard as long as he dared. And almost as if they had forgotten, too, some 250,000 spectators crowded close to the barriers to watch the cars spin past...
...devil-may-care tactics of young (27) Stirling Moss make a flashy counterpart to Fangio's calm control. Fangio belongs to a school that believes any spectacular burst of speed is useless unless the driver finishes a race. To Moss, on the other hand, the trick is to floorboard the throttle and hope the car holds together. The exhilaration of acceleration more than makes up for worry about mechanical failure. For the last few years, that exhilaration has kept the nervy Briton nudging at Fangio's rear bumper in Grand Prix competition...
...mechanics working for weeks at tuning the engine, test-driving the car, turning the tires down on a tire lathe until they were as bald as racing rubber, and perfectly balanced. All Flock had to do to beat his less elaborately prepared competitors was push the accelerator to the floorboard and steer...