a little off topic?

[Tom Morookian]

What do you suppose is the equipment under the drive on lift?

 

[51 MERC-CT]

Early drive on Dyno.

 

[texas webb]

Be my guess also.Nice color treatment.

 

[Bored&Stroked]

Yeah - I see a big flywheel . . . seems like a dyno of some sort. Or, they're using the car to pump water!

 

[Ross F-1]

I've always assumed it was something like that, but I don't see anything to absorb the car's output. Looks like chains going forward from the driving drums to a smaller sprocket but nothing up there? Even for 30 HP there needs to be some kind of radiator to dissipate the heat absorbed by the dyno.

 

[Bruce Lancaster]

Picture is from Shorpy, where it is called out as a chassis dyno.