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Now here’s something you don’t see every day: A recreation of the great Barney Oldfield’s Golden Submarine race car.
Seems there’s an outfit called Webb’s Automotive Art from Burton, MI (I checked, and couldn’t find a website) that decided to make a full on replica of what was the first fully streamlined race car to run here in America.
The Golden Submarine was of course designed and built by the amazing Henry Miller, one of the best automotive engineers the world has ever seen. The Golden Submarine (the original was painted gold) was a front engine/rear wheel drive design that pre-dated Miller’s amazing advances in front engine/front wheel drive cars. For a long while there, a front engine/front wheel drive car was THE way to go at The Indy 500. Imagine that, a front drive car like an econo-box has won The Indy 500.
Aerodynamics for cars was literally a new field of discipline, shoot, it was a new field of discipline in general, since the Wright Bros. had just gotten off the ground a little more than a decade earlier.
No wind tunnels for Henry Miller, just a whole lot of good guesses about what wold make a car slicker to the air.
Pretty slick looking too!
There’s more pictures after the jump - you’ve got to check out the interior.
Source: AutoBlog
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