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Originally posted by Vitesse
Ray: as Lincoln was Ford's luxury car division, surely Lincoln brake drums would have been Ford and vice versa?:confused:
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My point related more to the progress in technology within the Ford Motor Company. Undoubtedly the drums used would have been from much later models, probably 1955 or 1956 models.
A fantastic snippet from Jenks, by the way, Roger... and what of this one, from the
Motor Racing report, in the long and colourful prelude to the race proper, with Modena as the setting, and much pre-race testing going on:
Behra took off for Brescia with Scarlatti at 12pm and returned ten minutes later with a frightened Scarlatti who had already had enough. Everyone was waiting for Ak Miller to pass with the Chrysler Kurtis "Caballo de Hierro II" but he appeared to be busy staking out the sites for his cine camera teams. Moss left for two days' rest and Portago took in one more lap when he found that he would be driving a sports instead of a Gran Turismo car. The afternoon before the race a big depression descended upon Maserati - Jean Behra has crashed with the 4.5 and was in hospital, the Maserati had been destroyed and Jean had stayed with the car only long enough to collect his money, cigarette lighter and plastic ear before thumbing a lift from a shaken Fiat Topolino driver to the hospital at Modena.
This report is fantastic for this kind of detail, but almost totally devoid of actual commentary on the race itself... but it does include this gory bit about the finish:
On the straight, at about 180mph, a tyre burst for reasons which are still not clear. The car veered off the road, uprooted a massive granite marker stone, then flew through the air, snapping off a telegraph pole, and cutting to pieces spectators at the roadside who were pressing forward, regardless of danger, to see the cars pass. Annihilating its crew as it went, it bounced into one ditch, then hurtled across the road into the ditch on the opposite side. The Marquis de portago, his passenger, Eddie nelson, and nine spectators, of whom five were children, died, and several injured.
There is no mention whatever of Miller's starting or retiring... not even of any filming he might have done!