----- Original Message -----
From: "Keith Turk" <kturk@ala.net>
To: "Rose & Terry Hunt" <hunt@Kuentos.guam.net>; <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, April 13, 2001 3:58 AM
Subject: How we got here
> Interesting story Terry.... How we got here is interesting. A bit of my
> story was in Hot Rod.... what it didn't include was Brad and I hanging out
> on a wall in Saudi Arabia talking for days... then weeks... and Months on
> end about What it takes to go Two Bills on the salt.... We got Magazines
in
> the Mail from Home and would pour over anything on the salt....
>
> I remember two cars from those articles in particular.... Courtney Hizer
out
> of Rome Ga. and of course this little Coupe.... called the Tom Thumb
> special.... something about running little motors and Hauling butt....
Here
> was a guy doing something I could do!!! I don't think in my wildest
dreams
> I would have believed that Tom Bryant and I would one day be friends and
the
> Pierson Bros coupe would be famous...
>
> The amazing part of that story is that Tom's car was just one picture in
> someone's coverage of Speedweek....
>
> Keith
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rose & Terry Hunt" <hunt@Kuentos.guam.net>
> To: <land-speed@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Friday, April 13, 2001 2:53 AM
> Subject: Burns, Wright, and Frank
>
>
> > It,s strange how we,ll hear or read something and are reminded of an
> incident
> > or people many years before. Let me explain. In the early sixties I was
at
> a
> > friends house, messing with his fuel dragster. My friend, Fred Murphy,
and
> I
> > were in the same grade while going to school. We attended No. Hollywood
> > high(Cal.) and before that Walter Reed Jr. high along with Barry Kaplan(
> > Kaplin & Carr)., and Tom Senter(Ardun, Bonneville). Fred had returned
from
> a
> > trip to Bonneville with his friend, Don Johnson(200 MPH Club member) and
> was
> > telling me about this guy from down under. This guy had ground his
own
> > camshafts out of used axles and was a real low buck guy. Apparently, the
> > Champion sparkplug rep. had come around the pits giving complementery
> plugs
> > to the racers. The racer in question, who had to make practically
> everything
> > was visably overwhelmed that somebody would lay a bunch of sparkplugs on
> him.
> > One of those special moments on the salt. ------After reading an
article
> in
> > Hot Rod and seeing a picture of a Studebaker , I decided to get back
into
> hot
> > rodding. I went to B/V in 1991 to look around and finally brought our
car
> > there in 1998. I just wish I,d done it sooner. Terry Hunt, Guam Bomb,
#743
> >
> > ///
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