Harry Miller, bust
Harry Miller
"Harry Miller was, quite simply, the greatest creative figure in the history of the American racing car."
Miller created the first really streamlined closed car in the United States, and one of the first in the world. That was in 1917, and he was already telling journalists about using airfoil sections for improving the traction of super-light cars. He created un supercharged engines of fantastic efficiency. Then he became the master of supercharging, achieving far more fantastic results, making the world passenger-car industry look archaic. He gave the world front-wheel-drive as a practical reality. He created really tractable and practical four-wheel drive racing cars in the early Thirties, decades before almost anyone could appreciate the value of the principle. He always lived in the future, up to the time of his death in 1943.
A bronze bust of Mr. Miller is on permanent display at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Speedway, Indiana.
