Doug....
Your memory looks like it must be impeccable! I think you just related the
whole "affair" as if it happened just yesterday. ...thats SCAREY.
Nice to "chat" with you! I wish I was still out west so I could attend
Bonnieville alla time, but I moved back to NY State (where I grew up) to be
close enough to my mother to watch over her...
Not a lot of old time rod action going on around here. Everyone I meet
in these parts is a "street rodder" -and theres worlds of difference between
"them" and us. They jus' don't know how'ta step on th' gas -ya know? So I
don't have much in common with "them" at all, and I am pretty much carryin'
th' torch alone around here.....
I Have found some young guys in New England though that appreciate the
older stuff we like and have been kinda mentoring and "hangin' out" with
them at a few events when time allows. Of course I'll be preachin' the
"Gospel of Salt" to'em when I get the chance.
Personally, I've been starting to salivate at the thought of building
just one more car before I die and I've never played with one'a them ol'
flatmotors and I want to in the worst way. I'm thinkin' of buildin' a
little "track T" style roadster pickup sort of Rod. A minamalist sort of a
thing you know? Maybe with cycle fenders. Circa 1950. I've got a few parts
squirrled away so far with an entire '37 front end promised in the near
future.
ANY tips regarding what to look for, and what to beware of in flatheads
would be greatly appreciated (and saved off email!)
Well I better close for now. Appreciate all your comments and I'm sure
we'll "chat" again!
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:
"if its got a number on it an' makes alotta noise, -it's groovy!"
Hot Rodz Forever, Doug Anderson, -exiled in NY....
>From: ARDUNDOUG@aol.com
>To: boogiewoogie12@hotmail.com
>Subject: Re: Hemi cylinder wall failure
>Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 20:15:42 EDT
>
>In a message dated 10/27/1999 1:23:05 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
>boogiewoogie12@hotmail.com writes:
>
><<
> BTW; Doug, We met on th' salt in about '88 or '89; I was there with
>George
> Campbell, Hank Law'she and the whole wacky inliner "Salt Circus" crew
>from
> Montana. With Headstrom & Wise from washington thrown in for good
>measure.
> Seems to me you were running a flat black "t" roadster with one'a yer
>Arduns
> on gas that year in XX/STR? It was the year Campbell zonked the record
>to
> 150& change. Musta been 1988 I think. Anyway, Congratulations on YOUR
> great achievements. Nuttin's easy and you're doin' a great job!
>
>
> Boy this list sure is cool...!
>
>
> >>
>Joe,
> Yes, 1988 was the first year I saw George Campbell at the salt. We
>were
>all in the same XX/STR class then. That was before Jim Lattin and Elmo
>Gillette got the Arduns separated from the 12-port Jimmys.
> The existing record was 137, held by Zeke Zacherson in a 12-port. You
>guys and George were thrashing in the pits for a couple of days prior to
>qualifying at about 150. While you were thrashing, we broke the record a
>couple of times, finally moving it to 142.
> On the day you qualified at 150 we also qualified at 143 + change. The
>next morning during the record session George, as I recall, went down on
>the
>first leg of the record run at 150 and "holed" a piston. We ran another 143
>and got the record.
> The next year George came back and bumped the record to 150+. When
>they
>divided the class some years later we got our record back, grandfathering
>us
>into the books. Cramer Taylor (XXF/FMR) and Bud Morrill (XXO/GL) got their
>records back also.
> I thought I'd lost this message so I wrote again. Sorry for the
>duplication....Doug
>
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