Yeah and at b'ville this year Dave Fischer's wife went faster than Dave
or Tom(Bruch)-'course she had her left turn signal on(a known speed
enhancer).Welcome!
Tim Schoeny
Dick J wrote:
> Lori, welcome to the fraternity - -uhhh, uh, I
> mean, uhh - - group! Don't even think about
> apologizing for writing too much. That's what
> this place is for. EVERYBODY contributes, and we
> all benefit from it. And don't be embarrassed
> about selecting the wrong gear. Maybe other guys
> won't admit it, but I've heard some cars do some
> pretty impressive revving about half way down the
> track before they finally "found" the next gear.
> I've even heard that kind of sound on the videos
> of some really fast streamliners at Bonneville.
> I'm not quite a rookie any more, but I had to
> click it forward one more notch on my first run
> Saturday when I realized it wasn't shifting to
> third! Shoot, even if you made the first run in
> low gear, you would still have done something
> that thousands of gearheads only dream about!
> You ran the line!
>
> Welcome aboard
> Dick J
>
> By the way, my 15 year-old daughter is the one
> who took the picture of your car that I sent to
> you. She can't wait to get her license so she
> can race too. She'll be snooping around to visit
> with you in the spring, I'm sure.
>
> --- LBodenheimer122@aol.com wrote:
> >
> >
> > I would like to introduce myself, I'm Lori
> > Bodenheimer (Jim's better half),
> > I've been going
> > to Maxton for 2 years now and never understood
> > what all the talk was about
> > going
> > FAST. Well I had my chance this past weekend.
> > Now I know and I'm ready to
> > try again
> > to go just a little faster. I had two runs
> > this weekend the first wasn't all
> > that great....47,
> > due to what I call a rookie mistake, shifting
> > to second when it should have
> > been
> > drive.....never made it to 3rd, well I can
> > tell you that it doesn't help to
> > turn 5150 rpm if
> > your not in the right gear. On Sunday I got
> > another chance and was not going
> > to go
> > through the lights under 100, so when I was at
> > the half I got to thinking
> > things are not
> > moving fast enough....well guess what rookie
> > mistake again......but this
> > time I knew
> > what I had done and had time to manual shift
> > to 3rd to turn a 113......if I
> > had only had
> > more time I could have gotten my 125. Can't
> > wait until next time. Thanks to
> > everyone
> > down there for your support. Plus Thanks to
> > Clem for the use of his
> > firesuit, Mike for
> > the push to shut down after the 47 mph pass.
> > Sorry for writing so much, but
> > it was
> > great learning what all the excitement is
> > about going FAST.
> > Lori B.
> > PS Thanks Keith for helping me get on the
> > list.
>
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