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Re: [Land-speed] That was interesting -

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Subject: Re: [Land-speed] That was interesting -
From: "John Burk" <joyseydevil@comcast.net>
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 00:46:39 -0500
Mark is that the one with the rear mounted BB Chevy engine ?


>I am currently working as an auto parts driver.  Some aspects of the job
> are nice, some aren't.  Today I made a delivery to this one shop which
> rarely orders from us, but it happens.  It was a carb rebuild kit for a
> 1970 Ford Torino big block.  I walk in and the guy says "Utah Fast Pass,
> nice."
>
> I had sort of forgotten I was wearing the hat I got from the first running
> of Utah Fast Pass back in 2006.  I may have mentioned it on this list
> before.  Anyway that was the event where during the top speed segment
> a Ferrari Enzo got a little scraped up.  Okay, it left the pavement at
> close to 200 mph and rolled about half a dozen times, if not more.  So
> when the guy comments on the hat I tell about being on the road events
> crew and picking up over a million dollars worth of Ferrari a handful at
> a time.  He says "Oh, Richard's car" and tells me what happened since
> then.
>
> The guy, Richard Lossee, rebuilt the car to slightly different specs, and
> has been running it on the Salt Flats.  He set a record for C/BFMS in the
> World Finals of 237.871 back in October.  Not bad for what was once a
> basket case.
>
> mjb.
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