"Larry Jaques" wrote in message
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On Fri, 9 Apr 2010 23:41:06 -0700, the infamous "Bill McKee"
scrawled the following:


"Ed Huntress" wrote in message
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"Larry Jaques" wrote in message
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On Fri, 09 Apr 2010 10:07:57 -0400, the infamous Joseph Gwinn
scrawled the following:

I recall reading these explanations, but no longer recall the details.
I
don't
recall that it was called "jacking", though. My friend didn't call it
that, if
I recall.

I dare you to find it when googling "car jacking".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swing_axle

http://www.corvaircorsa.com/wright.html

http://wapedia.mobi/en/Chevrolet_Corvair?t=4.

http://everything2.com/title/Chevrolet+Corvair

Anyone involved with sports car racing in the '60s knew it as jacking.
If
you talk to someone who claims to have been there and who doesn't know
immediately what you mean by "jacking," in reference to Corvairs, VW's,
Porsches, Formula V's, Triumph Spitfires, or even pre-'64 Pontiac
Tempests
g, then he wasn't really there.

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Ed Huntress

[Ed, I saw your comments via Bill's quote. I just checked google and
couldn't find any of those links in the first twenty pages of google
returns, ya shameless ******.]

I searched on "corvair suspension jacking" without the quotes. Searching on
"car jacking," all you're going to get is crime sheets.



Might have been a regional term. I raced San Francisco Region SCCA and do
not recall any discussions of "jacking".

Dad raced SCCA gymkhanas and autocrosses in Little Rock, AR in the
early 60s and I never recall hearing the term. I cut my teeth on his
Austin 100-4, tuning the spoke rims for him. It's what drove me into
the auto repair business at the end of high school. shrug


The point is, swing-axle cars can tuck their rear wheels under; it was
common among swing-axle sports cars, some tiny European sedans, and Formula
V race cars; it was commonly called "jacking" among the people who were
racing those cars, and you probably never saw it because people who raced
those cars knew how to prevent it.

Austin Healey 100s, obviously, did not jack. It's hard to jack a solid rear
axle. d8-)

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Ed Huntress