Bill Summers

[DanW]

Wheel Driven Land Speed Record Holder @ 409 mph..

The two brothers built drag car axles in a machine shop in Pomona CA.
I was in high school and my friend bought a pair of axles from Summers for his car.

The sign on the front of the shop said "Home of the Goldenrod"

We went in the back door of the shop to pick up the axles and there was this very long thing under blankets along one wall.

We asked about it and Bill started to pull the blankets off. It was amazing how they packaged four chrysler hemis, synced them and drove both front and rear wheels.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/21/sp...at-75.html?amp

The car now is in the Henry Ford Museum
http://www.theautochannel.com/news/2...09/021322.html

[John Merriman]

Yeah, the NYTimes obit is huge and has a great picture of "Goldenrod" too. That kind of racers and their story is amazingly impressive and takes you back to a time when individual creativity and commitment to a goal was something very special about motorsports in that "golden" era. ( Now where did I put that stack of old issues of "HOT ROD"? )