Big Daddy is a true gentleman and a credit to all racing venues. The Indy show
was great, we saw Grib's booth, very nice! Also saw John Beckett and
"flipper". It was a very BIG show with a lot to see. I did get a scoop on the
Carbon-X firesuits, I was shopping for SFI-20 gloves that actually could be
used to drive and operate levers and switches. Diest said they will soon have
them and the suits available. This is some really impressive stuff, they had a
demo set up with a blow torch and a glove that they held the torch on with a
hand (yours if you dared) in it and it didn't get hot after many minutes
exposure. For now SFI 5 gloves are about all we have if you need to use your
hands to operate things, the 15's are too thick.
John
----- Original Message -----
From: LGMCAFEE@aol.com
Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 10:02 PM
To: land-speed@autox.team.net
Subject: Don Garlits Museum
We just got home from vacation and had about 500 emails to wade thru, some
good
discussion while I was gone. While we was in FL. we went to the Don Garlits
museum. If you are ever in the area it is a great place for any gearhead to
stop and look around. He has about all of his Swamp Rat dragsters on display
along with a lot of other peoples cars. Then he has a building with stock
cars, most of them in the thirties and forties. He had a picture of his
Bonneville car beside the framed time slip. I talked to a boy that worked
there and he said he still had it in another building. While we were there he
steeped out of his office and we talked for a minute he hoped we enjoyed the
museum. He said he had just got back from the show in Ind. No suit and tie
for this man just shorts and a ball cap. Just got my Hot Rod mag and they had
a poll run by Nitronic Research(nitronic.com) which selected Garlits as the
number 1 NHRA drag race driver. I think this was probably a good choice.
Take Care
Larry Mac
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