Tanis was here on the 3rd for the Awards dinner. I gave her a photo of
herself in the Landracing 299.7 hat and she just laughed. Seems she backed
off when a moth flew into her face in the fifth mile on the return run. She
became a grandmother again the week before the dinner. The car was built in
the sixties but remodeled a few years ago when the tail and side pods were
added and later the Chip Foose designed paint job. The drivers of the car
are as interesting as the car. Jeannie is an MD in Santa Rosa, CA. and her
dad is the one who builds the engines. Tanis has her helicopter pilots
license as well as a fixed wing license. She and Seth are avid pilots.
Their son is another of those who have set records in the car. The
turbocharger installation with titanium plates for part of the mountings is
a compact thing of beauty. They holed the number seven piston big time at
World Finals after having problems with a CV joint at World of Speed. An
unusual situation for that well prepared team.
Wes
on 11/14/01 2:36 PM, Jonathan Amo at webmaster@landracing.com wrote:
> Dick,
>
> The Hammond Lakester car is a awesome piece of machinery. The craftsmenship on
> the car speaks for iteself. Running turbo small block, this went 305 mph.
> Tannis
> just short of 300 mph club, in which she would have been the first female ever
> in
> the club. That was during world of speed, World Finals they made one run and
> broke. The team is excellent, Tanis, Seth, Jeannie and whole crew just
> terrific.
> If you ever talk to Tanis as her about her official 299.7 mph Club hat.
>
> Jon
>
>
> "Thomas E. Bryant" wrote:
>
>> Dick,
>>
>> #77 lakester is owned by Seth Hammond. He & several of his crew have
>> driven it. Presently Seth's wife Tanis is doing the driving trying for a
>> 300+ average. She managed a 299.7 record this year, just short of what
>> she wanted.
>>
>> The car was built by Tim Rochlizer & Ernie Bennett and first raced in
>> 1962 at Bonneville.
>>
>> The car was originally built with a small block Chevy and is now running
>> a turbo charged 258 cu in small block. I don't know how many different
>> engines it has run, but it ran a Pinto at one time.
>>
>> Tom, Redding CA - #216 D/GCC
>>
>> Dick J wrote:
>>
>>> Can anybody tell me anything about lakester #77
>>> at Bonneville. Who owns it? Who drives it? How
>>> old is it? What does it have for power? Has it
>>> had different power plants? What speeds has it
>>> run?
>>>
>>> Dick J
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