Re: Stanley Steamer engine
Posted by: Ben in Maine (IP Logged)
Date: September 11, 2005 03:18PM
<HTML>Hi,,,Where are you now?? Come over if you can,,,I have cars and engines to look at here,,and Alan has more cars west of here at NH,,,about 45min drive,,,I moved from Concord MA a few years ago,,a wild change , going from a ca 1685 house,,that my family had occupied since 1886,,to a ultea modern state of the art -- 1920 -- elegant house,, the locals call it the Mansion but I brought both of my SOAPSTONE stoves with me,,Now another assignment,,haha,,,go to page 2 in this discussion, find my harpsichord thread near the bottom,,scroll way down,,back up 2-3 posts and find the one w/ active link,,This is a link to Malcolm Lee's vid' clips ,,,look for Dead Horse [ hillclimb] ,, and Steam Clean track, ,,Dead Horse will take 10minutes plus to load on a phone connection, so be patient,,These were shot in the summer of '97 ,, I drove the racer over the road to both races,,,Driving down Main St Worcester,after the race,,I couldn't believe,,,,could NOT believe the people who gave me a thumbs UP,,,the signal of '''all ready to start'' at the race start line,,,,They ALL recognized the Racer as being the one they had seen on the hill,,,,NO THEY DID NOT WAVE,,,,IT WAS ALL 100 PERCENT THUMBS UP,, Quite a day to remember,, This in the city where L F N Baldwin,, who raced the original Vanderbilt ,,had a Stanley agency ,,,I had actually chased the car to that old building looking for the car , back around 1952 or so,,on the info given to me by Fred Mariott,,,I found 2 people who recalled the car,,but it was long gone,,,BUT,,,IT HAD been seen after the WW-I wow,,, I wonder,, Cheers Ben</HTML>