Some cars have to be seen, and others lead to auditory sensory overload. For those of you who speak “Boston,” this two-stroke, Saab-powered, H-Mod is wicked loud! And it’s wicked fast!
Over 150 cars are expected at this year's Put-in-Bay Sports Car Races. Everything from Jaguars to a Berkeley. To make your life simpler, we'll be sharing information on some cars that you won't want to miss. Why are they not to be missed you ask...? Because they are some of the smallest among the small-bore racers. The HMODs.
Not surprisingly, there was a Quantum One before the Quantum Two. Both (and the three cars that followed the Quantum Two) were designed by Walter Kern, an engineer who trained as a nuclear physicist at MIT. Kern took high science into the design of his race cars – working in his spare time with Al Conrod of Itek Corporation and Jack Soumala of the MIT Instruments Lab on an IBM computer to design a chassis with neutral steering. Designed as a pure racer, the Quantum Two wears only the most basic aluminum bodywork, and is powered by a water-cooled, three-cylinder Saab two-stroke engine. (Yes…that’s what you hear.) The Saab components came from Bob Wehman (who was General Manager of Service and Spare Parts for Saab Motors, Inc.) and Ralph Millet who was President of Saab Motors. Russell Blank of Eugene Engineering Corp. built the chassis. The suspension was believed to be a standard Saab setup.
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