Actually I think Glenn designed and built the SCTA timing trailer.
Jonathan
"Bryan A. Savage Jr" wrote:
> Wes, List,
> I'm sorry if my note gave the impression that I was questioning the validity
> or trustworthiness of ANY of the people or groups that put on LSR events.
> I wouldn't do Glenn's job for any amount of money (well now that they have
> AC maybe) nor would I touch Dan's job with your 10 foot pole.
> I just thought having the facts available would be very educational for many
> of the Racers. Glenn talked to me years ago about some of the unusual
> problems such as "how do you buy a 5 mile piece of wire" .
> More significantly is the horrendous amount of time spent by some of the key
> people. Example: What company was hired to design and build the timing
> trailer ?
> If it weren't for the extraordinary efforts of a small group of people,
> these events would not happen.
> I just thought there might be a better way to inform newer folks than
> listen to war stories from people like me.
>
> Bryan Savage
>
>
> Wester S Potter wrote:
> >
> > Brian, List,
> > There is a breakdown of expenses given after World of Speed to each member
> > of USFRA who attends the monthly meetings ... primarily the workers who put
> > on the event. It's a need to know situation but I can assure you that the
> > expenses are carefully weighed before any money is spent and we work every
> > insider deal we can to save money. If the workers were paid $5 an hour for
> > the time they put in before, during and after a meet, the racers wouldn't be
> > happy to afford to pay the entry fees. As was mentioned a NASCAR rule book
> > is $800 ... How would you like to be paying the "racers" share of the salt
> > restoration project? Reilly wanted half a million from the racers at the
> > beginning of the negotiations. Just thank NHRA, SEMA, Wally Parks, Ray
> > Brock and others who came up with the money to pay the attorneys who saved
> > those charges with their research.
> > Wes
> >
> > From: "Bryan A. Savage Jr" <basavage@earthlink.net>
> > Reply-To: "Bryan A. Savage Jr" <basavage@earthlink.net>
> > Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 09:31:16 -0800
> > To: List Land Speed <land-speed@autox.team.net>
> > Subject: Entry Fees
> >
> > IMHO (again)
> > I believe that the presentation of a detailed financial report to the public
> > would stop all of the questions and dissension about entry fee's.
> > I have no idea why this hasn't been done in the past. If it's a lot of work,
> > there might be some folks that would volunteer to do the job. The Internet
> > makes a perfect environment for work and information sharing.
> > I think we could scrounge up software and/or hardware if that would be
> > necessary.
> > This is the type of thing the world class problem solvers on this list
> > could make short work of.
> >
> > There must be something that I don't understand here...
> >
> > Bryan Savage
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