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Fw: Not to change the subject, but..

To: "james tone" <gmc6power@earthlink.net>, "landspeed@autox.team.net"
Subject: Fw: Not to change the subject, but..
From: "Glen Barrett" <speedtimer@charter.net>
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2007 12:56:02 -0700
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Glen Barrett" <speedtimer@charter.net>
To: "drmayf" <drmayf@mayfco.com>; "LSR" <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, January 07, 2007 12:54 PM
Subject: Re: Not to change the subject, but..


> seems to be some error, George ran a 155mph 1/4 speed and 171mph mile on 
> the short course. He also changes classes later in the the week when he 
> ran 255mph, and no it's not the fastest ever on the short course. As I 
> recall Kenny Hoover ran in the in the high 200s in a modified roadser a 
> few years back because the fuel takn was not large enough to run the long 
> course. It was Mel  Swain's car.George did qualify to run the long course 
> at 185 mph.
> Glen
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "drmayf" <drmayf@mayfco.com>
> To: "LSR" <land-speed@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Sunday, January 07, 2007 12:30 PM
> Subject: Not to change the subject, but..
>
>
>>I was looking through my last issue of Hot Rod and read and reread the 
>>Blowfish article.  If I had cash money in hand how much would it cost me 
>>to have the car built? Just like it sat there on the salt. We keep 
>>isisting that the sport is an amatuer sport but with cars having that 
>>amount of money spent on them I think it gets away from amatuers 
>>altogether, lol. But, I would like to hear guesses as to what it cost 
>>ready to run...
>>
>> There was a statement that the car made the fastest pass ever made on the 
>> shorrt course at 255 or so. Was this on the car's licensing run at 
>> supposedly 175 mph? I remember when Gribble brought his Bush Grand 
>> National T-bird with the cup motor in it and had to make a licensing pass 
>> at 175. He went 225 or so and the crap hit the fan and he got yelled at 
>> really loudly by the starter. Did that happen here? Or was this after 
>> the175 mph  licensing run? If it was after that run why did they choose 
>> to run on the short course? Bragging rights?  Just curious as if I had 
>> spent that kind of money I would be running it for all it is worth, 
>> lol... But what a cool car...




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