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Re: Im back

To: gary baker <lsr350@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: Im back
From: rtmack <RTMACK@pop3.concentric.net>
Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2002 21:44:14 -0600
Gary:
excellent report.  Sounds like a great meet, and maybe even better salt
than this year at Bonneville.  Now I'm wondering what it would cost
to get self and bike to Australia!
Having seen some of your Australian women ("shielas"--??), I'm thinking
I might like to apply to become a screwtineer, myself.  What are the
qualifications?
Russ

gary baker wrote:

> G'day maties
> Just back from Lake Gairdner, salt was excellent so hard infact there were
> zero rooster tails and almost zero salt pickup ,it was our biggest meet to
> date 45 vehicles ran many were first timers , fastest run was Lynch;s A/BFL
> belly tank with a 289.something, infact almost everyone beat there speeds from
> last year Rod Hadfields AA/FALT posted a 249 before the clutch let go ,Chuck
> Sharpe from the states ran his V4/GMR with a 125.050 any one on the list know
> Chuck ? Stuart Lappin upped his world record for the 650 P-P with a 169  this
> bikes a freak and a 189 on the Bussa which came out of the wreckers only 2
> weeks ago I ran some licencing passes on this bike up to 175 ( the zx12 was a
> no show) the talk at least among the bike guys was a 1929 four valve head
> Indian which ran an astounding 160 mph in the 1350 M/VG class its actual
> capacity was 1200cc blew the Vincents into the weeds . Lots of streamliners
> under construction  and things are lookin good .
> I was thrown in the deep end and became assistant scrutineer this year as the
> scrutineer could not make it and will be the motorcycle scrutineer at next
> years meet, all the down under racers send a BIG G,DAY to all of our friends
> in states.
> I've ploughed through all of the postings backlog , a bloke ( Pilot ) at the
> meet wanted to know if I was interested in buying a small wind tunnel world
> war two vintage which used a DC3 motor and prop as the motive force he brought
> it for the said motor.
> Finally Mayf mate desperatly in need of info on ground effect and flat
> bottomed streamliners
> Gary all fired up again with a big silly grin on his dial  Get more from the
> Web.  FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com

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