You know I thought I Saw that car in the Garlitis Museum here 10 yrs ago...
but maybe all I saw was the Promotion Photos... I talked to him about the
car and the effort back then and he truely was Proud of the effort and I
think your right Dave.... given the opportunity he would be out there on the
Salt today...
Keith
----- Original Message -----
From: Marge and/or Dave Thomssen <mdthom@radiks.net>
To: Land-speed Racers <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, January 07, 2000 7:52 PM
Subject: Garlits and the 2-club
> Hey Doug and group
>
> Garlits definitely got into the 2club with a lot more effort than $. He
> sponsored the streamliner and we built it here in Lincoln NE and I built
the
> blown flathead that got him in the club. He did a lot of the work on the
> salt including maintaining the cylinder heads with a file! My engine was
> strictly a backyard job that took some TLC to make it run, but for a while
> it was the worlds fastest single flathead. He drove on every other pass.
> Our long-time streamliner driver, Don Kehr, drove the other passes and we
> were able to get him into the 2-club after ten years of trying. We
couldn't
> get the blown ARDUN to run that year (1988) but in 1990 my son Tim and his
> buddies prepared the car and got it to go 232 with my blown ARDUN and he
got
> in the club. I crashed the car in 1991 trying to get in the club. E J
> Kawalski rebuilt the car and drove it at Muroc and the car is now in
> Pennsylvania. It will go to the Garlits museum sometime. I think that
> Garlit's family did not like him driving at high speed on slick surface
like
> the salt, or he would be racing there yet.
>
> Dave Thomssen
> The Hayseed
> Lincoln NE
> #322 XXFBSTR
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