I think it speaks well for this list and our
sport, when an enthusiast in England asks a group
of guys, manily in the USA, about a racer from
Japan, and an enthusiast in Italy has the answer!
You are right, Keith, it's a great bunch of guys
that make up this hpobby and this list.
Dick J
In East Texas
--- Ugo Fadini <ugo@ugofadini.com> wrote:
> Malcolm,
>
> The Kenwood Clean Liner was at Speed Week in
> 1992. I was there, so I
> have photos and a press kit, which I can copy
> if you need. A detailed
> article was also featured in the Sped Week
> program.
> As a matter of fact, I had the same curiosity a
> few months ago and
> contacted Jim Mathis at Collmer Semiconductors
> (they supplied the
> batteries and co-managed the expedition): he
> said the car was shipped
> back to Japan right after SW and did not hear
> from Satoru Sugiyama
> (the builder/promoter) any more. Then I tried
> to contact Mr Sugiyama
> without success, at least so far... We can
> assume the project was
> shelved, but the car is probably still
> somewhere in Japan. Will keep
> trying to find out.
> A BEAUTIFUL streamliner indeed (and probably
> pretty well engineered
> too) and such a pity we could never see it run.
> Positively it did NOT
> run during Speed Week, which was rained out
> after a couple of days
> that year.
> Oops... you wanted a reply from list members
> "in USA". But you cannot
> (for US readers: can not) get rid of us
> italians that easily, you
> know...
>
> Ugo Fadini, back in Italy from SPEED WEEK!!!!!
> --
> Ugo Fadini
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