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Re: Bonneville 200mph club minimums...

To: ARDUNDOUG@aol.com
Subject: Re: Bonneville 200mph club minimums...
From: "Thomas E. Bryant" <saltracer@awwwsome.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 10:04:57 -0700
AMEN! and AMEN!

Tom

ARDUNDOUG@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 10/23/2003 4:17:38 PM Pacific Daylight Time, Nt788 writes:
> Hi Doug The reasoning on that was, when a group told me I could only go so 
> fast to win, it then became corporate controlled and creativity was stifled!  
>A 
> 200club hopeful can get a real record with innovation, why should the record 
> be set so high that only a guy who can afford 7engines be given the only 
> chance? Another words if its to hot, spend more money.A Bill France quote: 
>"Keep 
> loading the wagon boys the horse is blind". Maybe the 2club can be like 
>NASCAR 
> someday! Jack
> Jack,
>     You and I obviously have a different slant on the subject.The reasons 
> most of us left drag racing are exactly as you stated.         Regards the 7 
> engines and a couple of cars, from my observations most of the guys in the 
> Two-Club are not mega-buck types. There are many partnerships intended to 
>share the 
> expenses and labor, and yes, a few very well funded operations that are 
> definitely in the minority.
>     You and your operation probably best represent the hands-on approach. 
>>From my observation point you literally do every aspect of building your cars 
>and 
> engines, sometimes with junk yard parts.
>     I don't feel that the Two-Club minimums are unreasonable. They are simply 
> intended to prevent  someone "turkey-shooting" entry into the Club in a class 
> with no record or a very soft existing number.
>     If there is a Two-Club minimum that's unreasonable or unreachable I 
> believe that Roy and the Board will listen to arguments that it should be 
> lowered.........Ardun Doug King 





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