Old Salt
Above: Lessons learned from his crash just nine years before are evident with Larsen tucked safely in his streamliner. The full-face helmet would have saved Fred’s face and head from those 180 stitches after his wild salt slide. “The trouble with a rear-engine car [is] you have no sight pattern,” says Fred. “You’re sitting so far forward, you don’t know what’s happening back there. That’s why I built a slingshot—my streamliner. If the rear wheels move an inch, your butt moves an inch and a quarter.”
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