Another case of "Salt Fever" right here.
Good feel for the event.
Thanks,
Wes
on 10/22/03 10:41 PM, Ray Buck at rbuck@aros.net wrote:
> 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/
> http://www.chevywest.org/
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