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[MG Brown]

I'm reasonably sure some of our Indy Racing experts are familiar with this car, but please try to restrain yourself for others to take a guess.

What is the name of the chassis, the year that it was built, when did it race in this livery, and what "first" was incorporated into its design?

[Dr. Gamma]

I remember that nose on that car. How about a Harrison Special chassis built by Jerry Eisert?? I think it had the first horizontal mounted radiator in an Indy car.

Maybe 1965?? I don't remember that paint job. The car I kinda remember was gold, with a little bit of a flip-up tail, and I think it had a DOHC Ford motor.

I think I am some what correct (maybe).

I am pretty sure I had a slot car back then with that body on it. They also made a Watson body with a nose close to the one on that car. Maybe thats where I am getting that flip-up tail idea from. That had to be 1966 or 1967. I just remember that Harrison Special name and that nose.

[Steve Deiters]

I believe that this was the first rear engine Indy car Jerry Eisert built.

Unique design charecterisitics? So many guesses and possibilities. Colotti planatary gear box? Monococque construction? Stock block Chevy? In its day in the mid-'60s some future stars like Rutherford drove this car. I don't believe it ever made it to Indy. Eisert already had moved on to his next generation designs.

The "ducktail" Eisert refecenced in another post that was switched to a Ford four-cammer was a different and newer car. As a slot car I think it was a Pactra RTR. It was a good-looking RTR.

[Cheater]

This car is Jerry Eisert's first Indy Car, serial number 1.

The "first" is that this was the first Indy Car ever to race there with Koni shocks.

1964 Eisert Indy 500 race car - Chassis #001

[Steve Deiters]

Whenever I see these old and rare Indy cars I always wonder what happened to the Stein Twin Engine Porsche? Not sure it that question has ever been answered in this forum or not.

Did it get broken up? Is it gathering dust somewhere with a tarp over it in a barn? Talk about a car that was, while not the first twin-engined car, that was unique.

It was a cool-looking Lancer body when they came out with that great series of Indy cars.

[Cheater]

Steve,

A little Googling suggests that the Stein twin-engine car no longer exists.



From the Porsche 356 Registry forum...

Bill Cheezebourg handler of the Stein twin 911 was a neighbor and friend back in the late 60's.
Bill said the car was as fast in the corners as the Indy straight aways. The special was built just as Porsche was developing the 911S however they would not share the S cam technology with the race effort. Bill also said Champion spark plug company encouraged the team to ad more "juice" to the fuel mix to get the car up to qualifying speed. Sad the car was dismantled, it was a great privateer effort.

The nose of the Indy racer is hanging on the wall of Classic Auto Body in Berkeley, Ca. It used to hang in Lukes & Shorman's shop until Billy Shorman closed up the shop years ago.