71 Harrell F/C anyone know of its whereabouts

[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!

[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]

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.

[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!

[benesesso]

Yes, it's been interesting. BTW, I think the body of the car was a 1970, not a 1971. I was more into street Vettes than Camaros and don't know what the differences are.

[ORIGLS6]

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Here's a photo of the Beebe and Mulligan car before Mulligan was killed when the clutch exploded-the Nationals when Garlits shut off at the tree knowing what John was going thru.

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Tim Beebe and Johnny Mulligan; my all time favorite TF team and car, followed closely by "Kansas John Wiebe."
We were at Indy the day Johnny Mulligan was killed. Speculation that he was running Hydrazine when the engine grenaded. As I recall he lived a day or two in an Indianapolis hospital before he passed away from the burns he suffered in the crash. We knew it was bad when we saw it.
That was a bad year at Indy. One of our local guys was running a TF car also. He lost a clutch at mid-track and one of the disks hit a 16 year old kid in the forehead. He was sitting four rows in front of our group. I was standing at the fence next to the return road trying to get a picture of Jim Paoli's car (from Springfield, IL) when it happened. Evidently the disk went directly over my head and struck David Strawn from Athens, Ohio. Everyone else was standing, and he was sitting. I don't think I'll EVER forget that kid's name, age and hometown. The EMT's wrapped him in the blanket we were sitting on and loaded him in an ambulance. The speed of those EMT's, or whatever they were called back then, was amazing. They had that boy out of the park and headed to the hospital in less than five minutes. I heard he survived.
I'm thinking that was 1968 or '69?

[Seattle Sam]

John Mulligan, Number 41 on the NHRA's Top 50 list. He died in 1969.
http://www.nhra.com/50th/top50/J_Mulligan41.html



Here is a link to the story of the 1969 Beebe & Mulligan car, and what happened at Indy:

http://hotrodswest.com/B-M-1969-2.shtml