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Re: World Finals web pages

To: "Ray Buck" <rbuck@aros.net>, <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: World Finals web pages
From: "Keith Turk" <kturk@ala.net>
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 02:32:10 -0500
Nice work Ray...

K
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ray Buck" <rbuck@aros.net>
To: <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2003 11:41 PM
Subject: World Finals web pages


> Here's a rookie's attempt to capture the essence of the World Finals thru
> the eyes of an old car nut who is new to land speed racing....but has a
> little experience in hotrodding, sports car, drag and oval track
> racing....and programming.  (Yeah...since 1966.)
>
> I've almost got the whole catastrophe done.  The first three days have an
> html page with captions and navigation for each inage, all accessible from
> a thumbnail page.  The last day has the html and navigation and thumbs,
but
> no captions yet.  I'll do that tomorrow.
>
> It was tough to write up the pics from Friday's crash.  I found myself
> going thru the same kind of anxiety that I went thru at the time, before
we
> found out that Seth Hammond was gonna be ok.  As I understand it, he was
> released from the hospital Monday, muttering about rebuilding the car or
> building a new one.
>
> There's some pretty cool machinery there.  I'm fascinated by the 1/2
Rodeck
> hemi coupe.  That sucker is something else.  There's another one on the
> last page that doesn't have the captions yet, but the motor is from a 70s
> Renault Gordini Mirage that ran at LeMans.  It's a 4-cam turbo V6 in a
> roadster body.  Very, very different.
>
> If ya wanna check it out, fine.  If ya find any booboos, lemme know and
> I'll fix 'em.  I'll respectfully ask for polite corrections and/or
> additions, since I'm new at this.  But I'll happily fix my errors and make
> things right.
>
> http://www.chevyasylum.com/bsf2003/wf/Welcome.html
>
> Thanks and enjoy,
>
> Ray
> http://www.chevyasylum.com/





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