1956 Crown does hot laps, sets record

[bevans6]

http://www.racer.com/videos/item/121908-1956-crown-bus-shatters-records-at-hsr-fall-historics

Happy Friday, everyone!

Brian

[HB of CJ]

Hot dogs and hot laps!  The front looks like an early Crown.  Narrow flat glass windshields.  The rear end looks like something much later like 1968 or later grafted on.  The red warning lights front and rear look old.  What kind of mill?  Almost sounded like a Detroit?  Crown didn't hang those until about 1970.  Probably a re power.  But could have been a Hall Scott also?  Lots of black smoke however.  Very cool and thank you!  Crowns Forever!!  Hee hee hee. 

[lostagain]

Great! He could've gone faster had he not wasted air blowing the horn... risking the compressor coming on and robbing power...

JC

[Jeremy]

Buses full of passengers are a regular thing racing around the Nurburgring. Travel a little faster than that Crown too

Jeremy

[Iceni John]

That a Detroit.   It's still a long way from the 103 MPH at Riverside Raceway set a while ago on an old Hall-Scott Crown!   One member of our Crown group has had his intercity Crown to well over 80, but he has a 375 HP Big-Cam in it.

John

[bevans6]

That turn one-two-three complex is actually quite a steep up hill climb, for a bus.  On the back side he probably wished he had jakes braking for the chicane after  a really long back straight that is equally steep down-hill.

Brian

[wildbob24]

Brian,

Very cool. As someone with many laps under my belt at Road Atlanta, I recognize that section as the "esses" leading to turn 5. The video ends as he passes the turn 5 flag stand on drivers right.

It is indeed an uphill run out of 5, but not as steep or long as the hill on the exit of turn 1, as you mention.

What fun.

Bob

[Gary Hatt - Publisher BCM]

If you look close, you will see Jon Usle in the drivers seat.  That is what he does between trips.