1948 Offy Bromme Fowle Brothers Special #51
1948 Offy Bromme in The Big Wheel, Movie, 1949
Class: Cars, Racecar — Model origin: 
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Minor action vehicle or used in only a short scene
Comments about this vehicle
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◊ 2006-07-13 07:07 |
![[Image: bigwheel51864uu.6268.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/0is100/bigwheel51864uu.6268.jpg) ![[Image: bigwheel51908qi.5941.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/0is301/bigwheel51908qi.5941.jpg) |
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◊ 2006-07-14 02:36 |
I believe this is the fowle brothers special from the indy 500 1948 ... driver by Spider Webb.! |
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◊ 2006-07-16 03:28 |
Confirmation. C'est la n°51 de 1948: une "Fowle Brothers" sur chassis/moteur "Bromme/Offy" conduite par Spider Webb. |
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◊ 2006-09-02 03:37 |
The car is the rear-engine #51 "Rounds Rocket". DNQ for the 1949 Indy 500 driven by Bill Taylor. One site says it's a Lesovsky chassis. http://www.indy500.com/news/story.php?story_id=2442 Another says a Kurtis. http://www.forix.com/8w/rear-engines-postwar.html Jack Fox's Indy 500 bible lists no chassis builder. Only that it was Offy powered. A beauty regardless. http://www.forix.com/8w/indy/bt-ind49b.jpg |
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◊ 2006-10-07 11:20 |
This car is featured in Roger Huntington's book DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE INDY CAR from about 1982 or so...probably long out-of-print...it IS the Rounds Rocket, and was driven by Bill Taylor, who later became a NASCAR official. It's been a long time since I've read the book, but I seem to remember that the car was a copy of the Auto Union from the late '30's. The main reason that the car didn't qualify was because it was simply too heavy for the Offy engines of the time. It was very well-done, and probably cost a fortune, but it was just too slow. It never ran at Indy again, to my knowledge. The footage of the car in the movie was taken in 1949, and is the only film of the car I've ever seen. It's kind of ironic...Indy changed the rules in the late '30's in hopes of luring the Mercedes and Auto Union cars into racing there. Several Maseratis, including the magnificent Boyle Special that Wilbur Shaw dominated the early '40's with took up the challenge, and it wasn't until over ten years later that an Auto Union, even if it was a copy, made an attempt at the Brickyard. The car SHOULD be in the Hall Of Fame Museum at the track...but it's probably a bunch of soda cans by now...pity... Dan |
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◊ 2006-10-07 12:36 |
Thanks Dregsfan & tifosi ..for you info ... What exactly should this be listed as then.? (correct name ..make/model.??) |
