Danger on Wheels! 1940 | The Jalopy Journal The Jalopy Journal

I guess it is just a 7 days for outdated car movies, eh? I’ll confess, as significantly as I like The Devil on Wheels (1947), and The Major Wheel (1949), I had by no means read of Risk on Wheels that preceded equally these movies in its pre-war launch of 1940. This just one is an automotive  hodge-podge of stunt driving, dirt keep track of competition, and paved speedway oval racing. Not the finest motor vehicle film in the planet, but however value a enjoy (if not just to listen to western movie sidekick Andy Devine’s comical voice).

Synopsis says: “During a exam a race automobile applying an experimental oil-fueled engine blows up, killing the driver. Lucky Taylor, a stunt driver, is originally blamed for the incident, but is afterwards cleared. He thinks the motor design has a actual chance to win races, but the racing association has banned it because the incident. He devises a plan to have a car or truck outfitted with the engine entered into a race, with no race officials–or the engine designer’s sassy daughter–finding out about it.”

In the movie they continue to keep mentioning this experimental ‘oil-burning’ engine, which have to be an additional way of saying ‘diesel’? In fact, a Cummins diesel race motor vehicle ran at Indy all the way again in 1931, but the oil burners had been by no means incredibly aggressive until the aerodynamically-analyzed and turbo-charged 1952 entry from Cummins built a serious go of it. It was also the last calendar year they were authorized to operate the Indy 500. I wrote additional on that motor vehicle in this article.

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