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- First Name: George John
- Last Name: Drobnock
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- First Name: Frank
- Last Name: Brandi
- * REQUIRED* Type and Year of Model Ts owned: Speedsters (1919 w 1926 upgrades), 1926 (Ricardo Head)
- Location: Moline IL
- Board Member Since: 2018
Re: More Power
My Cousin Vinny 1992
Mona Lisa Vito : The car that made these two, equal-length tire marks had positraction. You can't make those marks without positraction, which was not available on a Model T!
Vinny Gambini : And why not? What is positraction?
Mona Lisa Vito : It's a limited slip differential which distributes power equally to both the right and left tires. The Model T had a regular differential, which, anyone who's been stuck in the mud in Alabama knows, you step on the gas, one tire spins, the other tire does nothing.
Juror #1 : That's right.
Vinny Gambini : Is that it?
Mona Lisa Vito : No, there's more! You see? When the left tire mark goes up on the curb and the right tire mark stays flat and even? Well, a Model T had a solid rear axle, so when the left tire would go up on the curb, the right tire would tilt out and ride along its edge. But that didn't happen here. The tire mark stayed flat and even. This car had an independent rear suspension. Now, in the '60s, there were only two other cars made in America that had positraction, and independent rear suspension, and enough power to make these marks. One was the Corvette, which could never be confused with a Model T. The other was a 1963 Pontiac Tempest. ... No way was it from a Model T.
Mona Lisa Vito : The car that made these two, equal-length tire marks had positraction. You can't make those marks without positraction, which was not available on a Model T!
Vinny Gambini : And why not? What is positraction?
Mona Lisa Vito : It's a limited slip differential which distributes power equally to both the right and left tires. The Model T had a regular differential, which, anyone who's been stuck in the mud in Alabama knows, you step on the gas, one tire spins, the other tire does nothing.
Juror #1 : That's right.
Vinny Gambini : Is that it?
Mona Lisa Vito : No, there's more! You see? When the left tire mark goes up on the curb and the right tire mark stays flat and even? Well, a Model T had a solid rear axle, so when the left tire would go up on the curb, the right tire would tilt out and ride along its edge. But that didn't happen here. The tire mark stayed flat and even. This car had an independent rear suspension. Now, in the '60s, there were only two other cars made in America that had positraction, and independent rear suspension, and enough power to make these marks. One was the Corvette, which could never be confused with a Model T. The other was a 1963 Pontiac Tempest. ... No way was it from a Model T.
The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.
Mick Jagger
Mick Jagger
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SurfCityGene
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- Last Name: Carrothers
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Jerry VanOoteghem
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Wow, those sure are some good brakes!
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Art M
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- Last Name: Mirtes
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Re: More Power
Locked differential. Spider gears were welded.
Art Mirtes
Art Mirtes