Show Heres Here's Freak Car 7 1 r ria Has Hai Front Drive Cylinder 8 Motor I From the day the automobile was perfected as a pleasure vehicle designers ners have seen fit to push their cars cars I. 1 c c. c the power lower has been applied to the rear wheels Now comes the first American passenger passenger passenger ger car to apply its energy to the front wheels leaving those in the tho rear rear to roll along alo meekly behind with no function except to hold up their end of the car oar car In the front rie Laughlin built by a Los Angeles concern an ei cylinder ht-cylinder m motor tor mounted Under un- un dor der a hood in front in the usual way is connected through friction discs a and silent chains to sprockets On the front axle Specially constructed universal joints between the wheels and the driving sprockets permit the free movement needed for steering The designers who have been ting experimenting with the new type for several years claim for the front drive a stability such that they have found it impossible to tomake tomake make male the car skid All working parts are in front and therefore easily accessible Moreover it Is declared the front drive plan gives easy riding over the most difficult roads How the idea will work out on a n. pleasure vehicle remains to to be seen It is not new OIl on raci racing cars Harry Knight built a front drive machine which he called the tho Rovan novan Ito Ro- van and it was in this car that he lie was killed at Columbus Ohio A designer named Christie constructed constructed constructed con con- a ponderous front drive affair some time ago in which Barney Oldfield broke broko several records records records rec rec- and which he exhibited at atthe atthe atthe the opening of the Chicago speed speed- way These curious contraptions al always always always al- al ways were objects of puzzled Interest in interest interest in- in terest and the men who are of offering offering of- of fering a modification of them to the general public arc are daring to say the least Another oddity which has just arrived is the Eagle a light car carrying a motor in which the cylinders cylinders cylinders cyl cyl- cyl- cyl inders instead of pf being stationary revolve about an axle as do those in the much used Gnome motor for aeroplanes I |