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I understand that Thorne wasn't an engineer. The technician was Art Sparks, who was a stuntman, race car driver, self-thaught engineer and partner in the Sparks & Weirick racing team that closed in 1936. After that, he built the Sparks Big Six Indy racer, which failed to finish in the 1936 Indy 500. Thorne bought the car for $12,000, and spent $300,000 to install Thorne Engineering, Inc. in Indianapolis, with Sparks running the company and designing the race cars. This ended in 1939, after the death of driver Jimmy Snyder in a Sparks-Thorne powered midget racer.--Chief tin cloud (talk) 13:35, 26 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
