Chick Sugden ran in 1950 with a flathead in a chopped and channeled pickup
if I remember correctly. Mary West would possibly know (she was there)
since Sugden was from Salt Lake.
Wes
on 8/22/02 9:41 AM, Dave Seely at dseely@sginet.com wrote:
> Saw and heard you guys run, it looked great!! Not the slickest body around
> but stinkin' fast!
> Dave Seely
> 1141 XF/VOT
>>
>> This thread lands right in our back yard, and since I'm new to the
>> list (Thanks to Karen Davis for pointing it out to me in the staging
>> lanes at Bonneville)
>> I thought I'd say hello.
>>
>> I'm Mike Siewert, one of a group of guys from Calgary who ran at
>> Bonneville for our first time this month.
>> Our car (truck?) number 1149 is a 1928 Ford roadster pick-up, during
>> the registration process we got slotted as B/STR. Whether we belong in
>> STR is beyond me, it was a dream come true for the bunch of us to run
>> there though and no doubt we'll be back for many years to come. We had
>> a wonderful time this year, and returned home intact after 10 runs and
>> a best speed of 191. Needless to say we are all floating on clouds
>> this week.
>>
>> The was a question raised among our group on the way home though. How
>> can we find out about other roadster pickup's that may have run in
>> years past? One of the guys suggested we might be close to having "the
>> fastest roadster pickup around", but I don't know where (other than
>> here) to start researching to find out if he's on the right track.
>> It'd be a fun line to use while we fund raise for next year though.
>>
>> I don't know whether we're a roadster or a pick-up, but I do know
>> we're having FUN!
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Mike
>> --
>> Michael D. Siewert
>> Technical Support Group, Department of Chemistry
>> University of Calgary. Tel. (403) 220 7228
>> http://www.ucalgary.ca/~mdsiewer/
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