DOUG:
MAN,Oh man, I just saw the photos you posted. Thats gotta be the
bitchinist "T-bone" ever. Are you readin' my mind ?
Thats just about what I just described to you in my last missal a
couple minutes ago except I'm thinkin' flat heads (can't afford Arduns...)
and a pick-up rear section ta carry neccessititys to all th'events in.
Gotta have room for a cooler!
Thanks for some great shots. What a beauty. -Doug Anderson, NY
>From: ARDUNDOUG@aol.com
>To: boogiewoogie12@hotmail.com, land-speed@autox.team.net
>Subject: Re: Hemi cylinder wall failure
>Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 20:10:18 EDT
>
>In a message dated 10/27/1999 1:23:05 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
>boogiewoogie12@hotmail.com writes:
>
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> 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,
> Yeah, we were there in 1988 with the Ardun powered black primered 27-T
>XX/STR. George Campbell was there too with his 12-port GMC XX/STR.
> George and crew thrached for a couple of days before making a pass. We
>got running right away and bumped the 137 record, held by Zeke Zacherson in
>a
>12-port GMC, to 139 and then 141.
> Later in the week George got running and qualified at 150+ while we
>qualified again at 143. The next morning during record runs we went down at
>143 and George wend down at 150+ again but "holed" a piston in the process.
>We lucked out and got the record. A year later he moved it to 151 or so.
> When Elmo Gillette and Jim Lattin got the XX class divided into XXO
>and
>XXF we got our record back, as did Cramer Taylor in XXF/FMR (the oldest car
>record in the book) and Bud Morrill in XXO/GL.
> The black primered street roadster is now a street machine powered by
>an
>Ardun (picture attached)...................Ardun Doug
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