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This sub shines; 1917 Golden submarine replica.(Escape Roads)
Byline: STEVE KASH
Barney Oldfield was one of the most fearless racing stars of the early 20th century. But fearless doesn't mean foolhardy. After the 1916 death of his friend Bob Burman, who had been racing in an open-cockpit car in Corona, California, he commissioned engineering wizard Harry Miller to build a different kind of race car: the Golden Submarine, the first race car to use a metal roll cage inside the driver's compartment.
The streamlined car garnered Miller nationwide prominence as a race-car builder. Years ahead of its time in many ways, the aerodynamically advanced, wind-tunnel-tested, 104-inch-wheelbase Golden Submarine cost $15,000. It featured a 289-cid, sohc, cross-flow, water-cooled, 136-hp four-cylinder engine-the forerunner to the highly successful Offenhauser engines of later years. At 410 pounds, the aluminum-alloy engine was a lightweight compared with competitors' higher-powered, heavier engines.
In June 1917, soon after the Golden Submarine was assembled, it was entered in a 250-mile race in Maywood, Illinois. Oldfield qualified at 107.4 mph but failed to finish. Later that summer, he won two 25-mile, two-car competitions in Milwaukee, vying with Ralph DePalma, who ran a conventional Packard powered by a 12-cylinder aircraft engine. On straightaways, the Golden Submarine fell behind the more powerful Packard, but Oldfield's cornering prowess in his lighter car made up the distance.
During the next few years, the Golden Submarine was probably the safest vehicle on the track, but at 1600 ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, This sub shines; 1917 Golden submarine replica.(Escape Roads)