A Lakester is a car with a streamlined body but with four exposed wheels. It is most often made out of a modified aircraft drop tank. The main attraction...
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aerodynamically neutral and it did not take long to convert one into a car, dubbed a lakester.[citation needed] According to GM historians, Bill Burke of the So-Cal...
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Dyna platforms. Further upgrades include an LED headlight and 18-inch "Lakester" rims, with wider 160mm front and 240mm rear tires. For 2020, the Fat Boy...
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Dick Beith's Pepco Supercharged VW Lakester, August 1963...
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dropped I-beam axle and tube shocks. Note stock frame rails, disc brakes, Lakester pipes Deuce roadster with a bobbed frame, dropped axle, disc brakes, and...
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wrapping around and over the driver. The steel front wheels were covered by lakester-style wheel discs (Moon discs). The car debuted in 1955, at the first NHRA...
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fully enclosed wedge-shaped body, with only the front wheels, fitted with lakester-style wheel discs (Moon discs), exposed.: 40 Little is known about the...
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to the larger 305-gallon belly tank used on a P-38 Lightning. See also lakester. The So-Cal gang was voted the Number One Racing Team in 1952 by Mechanix...
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Slipper was a short-wheelbase front-engined digger with front hairpins, lakester-style wheel discs (Moon discs), covered frame rails, a closed cockpit,...
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The Tulancingo Valley in a large valley that could formerly be a basin Lakester, begins where the mountain ends its conformation, is characterized by the...
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