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Lundgren modern design midget racer: fifth actual size. Design blueprints for two spring design round nose 84.5 in. open-wheel midget race car.

1935 · réf. 59420 — Chicago IL: Lundgren Carroll Wilke ca. 1935. Oblong folio. 24 x 17.5 in. 3 leaves unnumbered. blueprints stapled at gutter margin self-printed softcovers fold creases from having been originally rolled minor edgewear couple minor closed tears at outer fore-edge still VG set of plans. These designs were prepared for Lundgren 1896-1979 who in the 1930’s also worked as an auto mechanic machinist as well as body fabricator and designer for himself and later E.D. Lewis Motors in Chicago. Inspired by the “Modern” streamline design cues of the Century of Progress World’s Fair 1933-1934 in Chicago this 7 foot long open-wheel midget racer according to the plans had been fitted with reduced-size Miller-Duesenberg racing engines first introduced as 16-cylinder 1.5 2.0 and 3.0 liter Grand Prix & Indy race-cars in the 1920’s. By 1934 DOHC 4-cylinder Miller engines intended for powerboat racing were driving Indy car winners. The Lundgren Modern Midget Racer featured Pontiac Ford Model A suspension Hartford Shocks and other converted parts. Wilke 1910-1999 was a noted draftsman scale model builder for Dowst Manufacturing Co. the noted Chicago toy manufacturer of the Tootsie Toys and later worked for the Stewart-Warner Corporation Automotive Parts Division. Lundgren, Carroll Wilke, paperback