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  1. Make sure they clock the cap neck correctly or the wings on the cap will be off and also test fit it with grill shell. There is enough adjustment that if the neck is off front to back the shell will fit crooked and non of the side bolts that hold the shell to the radiator wont line up.  I got mine from the radiator shop and it was off by 1/2". Luckily I was test fitting everything and checked the cap and noticed the wings were 1/2" twisted and back to the radiator shop for  a redo. Even with the alignment marks they got it off the first go around.

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  2. If you read the race results the 29 cars were very competitive and one of the cars was running in third and closing in on second till it developed problems. After spending some time working on the car it still finished a very respectable sixth only one lap behind the supercharged Stutz with the other Chrysler one lap behind it. These were very special cars and were very different from their production cousins. Like the Bentley and other teams the cars were well developed by the teams.

     

    The Chrysler team principle was Gustave Baehr. Doing patent search shows a plethora of patents he filed and licensed to other car companies including some of the race parts he designed for the Chrysler. In some of the French car magazines of the time ,his company advertised performance  parts to convert the Chrysler for racing including special gears and a special floater race rear end with a 3.25 gears among other parts in the kit. Every once in a while at Retromobile race parts from the kits do show up. About seven years ago I did see a set of 3.25 gears for sale, but ta that time I had already spent my funds on other things I needed at the show. If you look at the average times per lap of the cars in the race they would have had to have used a tall gear to get those times consistently.

     

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