71 Harrell F/C anyone know of its whereabouts

[Belair62]

Engine on that Beebe car is so cool looking....and is that a points type distributor or some weird mag ???

[benesesso]

That's an early 392 hemi-based engine, with the points-triggered magneto at the back. The later 426's had the dist/mag drive up front.

I live out by Litchfield Park. Here's a photo of TV Tom's last (I think) front-engined TF car. Not even a mag. to slow down any exploding blower fragments! Talk about "in your face".

[benesesso]

I can't make this software post more than one photo, so here's one of Clayton Harris-probably in NJ in the early 1970's. Clayton was VERY quick in those days.

[benesesso]

Here's what I drive these days-don't need much reaction time, but it weighs 800 tons. Traction isn't much of a problem---.<g>

[Xplantdad]

Is that you in the yellow jacket?? I'd really make sure that what you're carrying doesn't fall off!

[benesesso]

Yes, that's me. Not to worry, falling off isn't an option.

That whole rig is longer than a football field, has 432 tires and two diesels. Only does 4 MPH.

[MosportGreen66]

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Here's what I drive these days-don't need much reaction time, but it weighs 800 tons. Traction isn't much of a problem---.<g>

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I totally dig the slots on the yellow trailer! Very period correct!

Thats the world's biggest bottle of water if I ever saw one... really though... what is it?

[benesesso]

That is the world's largest nuclear power plant steam generator-one of 6 my company had constructed in Italy. Each one generates ~1 million HP worth of hot steam. They were so big and heavy we had to build each one in two pieces (in Milan), truck them (one-at-a-time)to Cremona (home of the Stradivarius violins), transfer them to a barge on the Po River, float them to near Venice, weld the two sections together, load them on a heavy lift ship to Mexico, roll them off the ship onto hundreds of sheets of 3/4" plywood (all of the local supply) so the wheels wouldn't sink into the sand (not anticipated, someone got it trouble-not me, I was in Italy), move the plywood Egyptian-style ahead of the wheels (big labor crew plus a front-end loader) for 5 miles to pavement, then drive at 3 MPH up thru Mexico and the Arizona desert. Then the fun begins. Move them horizontally thru a big hole in the side of a containment structure with ~1" clearance, upend them to vertical (big end up) once inside, weld them in place and hook up all the steam/water lines-the largest of which is 42" dia. Amazing what a few hundred million $$$ can do! Payback time is ~8-10 years because we can make more power now. I was a mere cog on the wheel-the engineer responsible for getting them built the way we wanted. And I didn't even get a Ferrari for my troubles! Life is so unfair.

[Salvatore]

Yea, But you saw and did what most of us would never have an opportunity to do. WOW, what mechanical ingenuity. What a project!

[Xplantdad]

Kinda sounds like the transportation story of the transformer that made it's way to the West Wing Power grid from California and points unknown not too long ago...fascinating story. I'm with Sam...WOW!