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#101 Ray Bell

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Posted 11 June 2011 - 12:09

We're going to get some die back soon, there's frosts coming regularly...

I'm not sure about the Peugeot stuff. The Tornado certainly had them.

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#102 baz

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Posted 12 June 2011 - 10:19

:rolleyes: I have a confession to make. Having just gone through some old files, I find that I have the wheelbase for Maybach 1! It's the track which has never been discovered.
And at 102 inches, it's a good bit longer than Maybach 11's 94 inches.This information was published in what I think was a Floyd Clymer book which I don't have--just a page from it. It shows a front elevation which I've drawn to accurate proportions, and describes the front end which was obviously completely redesigned at a later date, along with a restyled nose with wider grille.
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Malcolm Preston in his book MAYBACH TO HOLDEN states that the track was 60 inches both front and back. Get down to REPCO and buy a copy.

#103 cheapracer

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Posted 12 June 2011 - 10:35

Wasn't there a music bloke called Back?


Wasn't he a Minstrel?


#104 Repco22

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Posted 12 June 2011 - 12:37

Malcolm Preston in his book MAYBACH TO HOLDEN states that the track was 60 inches both front and back. Get down to REPCO and buy a copy.


That's a heck of a track but it WAS wide. A mighty big car. It's odd that no contemporary reviews that I've seen ever gave the track/s. Looking at pics, I would have guessed that the rear track was a bit less than the front.

#105 Ray Bell

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Posted 12 June 2011 - 16:38

Here's a picture... can you scale that?

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#106 Repco22

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Posted 13 June 2011 - 00:55

Here's a picture... can you scale that?

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That's a great pic thanks Ray. Hadn't seen it before. The most useful pics for scaling are of course dead side-on [ for working from wheel-rim size--- if known!] Dead front-on would help too, to a degree. :up:

#107 Ray Bell

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Posted 13 June 2011 - 12:21

The combatants here are fighting for supremacy in the first-ever F1 race in Australia...

Clem Smith once loaned me the photo, and it is a very good pic.

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Posted 20 June 2011 - 10:57

That's a heck of a track but it WAS wide. A mighty big car. It's odd that no contemporary reviews that I've seen ever gave the track/s. Looking at pics, I would have guessed that the rear track was a bit less than the front.



Maybach 2, monoposto body. Wheelbase 95 inches, track front 51 inch, rear 49 inch. Info once again from Malcolm Preston