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Show LOUIS MEYER TO HAVESWIFT CAR Machine Will Have Rear-Wheel Rear-Wheel Drive and Be ' Driven by Spur Gear. There has been a good deal of gos-ip gos-ip concerning the car Louis Meyer will drive in the 1930, Indianapolis BOO-mlle race, but the actual facts were not disclosed until a few days ago when Alden Sampson, head of the Sampson-Meyer-Brett racing combination combina-tion came into Indianapolis to arrange for quarters where the car will be built. The car will be named the Sampson Special. Its 16-cylinder motor will be made up of two banks of eight cylinders. cylin-ders. The car, a rear-wheel drive, will be driven by a spur gear off the rear end of a separate crankshaft for each of the banks. The cylinders will be of 2 518 bore by 3-inch stroke and the motor will have displacement of 201 cubic Inches. Conforms to Specifications. Otherwise the car will conform to all the specifications of the Indianapolis Indian-apolis Motor Speedway corporation for the 1930 race, which will start this year at 10 o'clock a. m. on May 30, as usual. "The three of us worked for weeks on the design and the motor blocks have already been made and machine work on them is about finished," Sampson said. "Riley Brett is coming on from the coast and from then on we will go at top speed to finish the car." Asked who would be the riding mechanic me-chanic with Meyer, Sampson said he did not know. There will be a thousand thou-sand requests pour Into the workshop without doubt, but Sampson Intimated Inti-mated that he considered the mechanic's me-chanic's seat highly important and that he might ride with Louis in the first ' rnce for two-man ears since 1922 on the greatest automobile race course In the world. Snmpson Is the most picturesque ' figure In racing In America. He was an automobile denier in Ohio two years ago when he met Louis Meyer. They both were men of few words, of about the same height and general build. Louis was a mechanic for Frank Elliott. El-liott. Two weeks before the 1928 nice Louis wired his friend In Ohio that he had a good buy In a race car if Alden had the money. Alden had It and cnme to Indianapolis, where the car was bought. So well did Louis Justify the investment that he won : first place that year. The same year Sampson bought a car from the Frank Lockhart estate and Meyer drove It Into second place In the 1929 race. Work of Trio Divided. The work of this winning trio Is well divided. Sampson watches the money end. Louis Meyer does the driving, and does it so well that he won the A. A. A. driving championship champion-ship In 192S and 1929; Brett who has worked on more winners than any other racing car specialist, has the responsibility re-sponsibility of seeing that the car is always in tip-top shape mechanically, i This rare combination has made a trio to conjure with where seconds mean thousands of dollars. The public will be much Interested to see how the lG-cylindor car the first one of its kind for track in America will perform. With Its background It can almost he written for a place well up at the finish. |