Where is Franklin Ratliff???

[Ruok]

Anybody remember this guy from 7G days? Check this (http://forums.hotrod.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=0&Board=generaldiscussion&Number=81935&page=1&fpart=1) out.

Apparently he has built a prop driven car. Um, need I say more? Anyway, blast from the past.

[G.]

Oh god, I'm never going to get those wasted minutes back into my life. DON"T READ THE FORUM OVER THERE!

Franklin is arguing about SCTA rules and how they are arbitrary and not based on engineering principles. The guy that built a PROP-DRIVEN dragster says this.

Beautiful! :laugh:

[oddlycalm]

Steel tube embedded in composite construction...? No prop shroud...? Yup, vintage Franklin. Won't be long now until someone is killed or maimed I imagine. :shakehead

oc

[chop456]

Oh dear.

[SteveH]

too much windowpane :rofl:

[Turn7]

hahaha.

Who are you with 8 posts here and knowledegable of Mr. Rattliff?

[Turn7]

Steve make a quick post before you vaporize!

SteveH
Veteran

Join Date: Dec 2002
: Valparaiso IN
Posts: 666

[nrc]

Wow. Just wow.

[Rocketdoc]

The strange keep getting stranger....

[cart7]

I say we invite him over for a day just for some fun. It's gonna be a long winter till LB and a little Franklin jousting might just be what we all need. :cool:

[Ruok]

hahaha.

Who are you with 8 posts here and knowledegable of Mr. Rattliff?

Um, long time lurker with nothing to say. I check a couple of sites for rumors, gossip, and occasional insight.

Me: Got hooked on CART long ago at my first visit to Road America. Attended most up until they left. Continue to have tix in J for USGP. I enjoy any class of racing on 2 or 4 wheels on road courses, street courses or dirt (!) ovals. Not a big fan of paved ovals, but I appreciate the talent required, especially combined with the diversity of tracks that CART used to run. Loved Indy though, right up through 95.

Stupidest thing I ever read in a racing forum (paraphrasing): 'Thank God TG formed the IRL and saved big-time ow in the US, otherwise it would be dead.' That always left me speechless, and makes me think the writer is a paid shill or refuses to (or can't) live in reality.

As for Franklin, I was never quite certain if he was for real. Saw a reference to him here (http://www.jalopnik.com/) and couldn't believe it. Thought some of you might enjoy a laugh.

Back to lurking.

[pchall]

That boy just ain't right.

[cameraman]

$17,000

&

Nine years

:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

[oddlycalm]

$17,000

&

Nine years Woulda only been 18 months if he hadn't spent all that time posting the dozen forums he eventually got banned from. :gomer: Good to know that some things never change.

Now all we need is a thread about rocket car oval racing...

oc

[chop456]

http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/01/24/rocket.bike/index.html

[KLang]

Now all we need is a thread about rocket car oval racing...


Not rocket cars, but how about the Rocket Racing League (http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/051003_rocket_racing_league.html) . Rocket planes :cool:

http://www.space.com/images/h_artist_rrl_liftoff_02.jpg

[Steve99]

http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/01/24/rocket.bike/index.html
ROFL

[Andrew Longman]

KLang. You beat me to it. See separate thread

[mapguy]

http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/01/24/rocket.bike/index.html

Kinda looks like me when I cycle home after having a few Blithering Idiots and burritos.

[Wheel-Nut]

Those are unproven models . . . I would enter a proven design.
http://www.racebyrace.com/gallery2003/images/FontanaIRLTest2003/184-8491l.jpg

[Rocketdoc]

I think that that open prop already done hit 'ol Franklyn in the haid....

[Ankf00]

Meth compels.

[High Sided]

looks like franklin is now nascar bound, in his mind :gomer:
http://www.landracing.com/phpPhotoAlbum/show.php?id=149