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Re: JCB oilburner story on Pistonheads

To: Doug Odom <dlodom@charter.net>, drmayf <drmayf@mayfco.com>
Subject: Re: JCB oilburner story on Pistonheads
From: Skip Higginbotham <Saltrat@lubricationdynamics.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 09:59:45 -0700
Would be a terrible loss for Banks to burn down his shop (-:(-: I'll 
help get the diesel record up there a ways. Been wanting to for 
several years......but didn't do it!
Skip


At 09:04 AM 8/23/2006, Doug Odom wrote:
>Mayf, If I thought for a minute that I could not call 3 or 4 people 
>to help me and for one tenth of the money JCB spent not go out and 
>beat their speed I would burn down my shop and go fishing. I'm sure 
>Gale Banks or someone like that will soon do that very 
>thing.    Doug Odom in big ditch
>
>drmayf wrote:
>
>>Sorry, but I feel a bit like sour graapes about now. Yes, the JCb 
>>vehicle set the world record and did it well. All due to great 
>>"british" engineering....and a boatload of money as we all saw. 
>>They didn't say much about that. What is far more spectacular to me 
>>is the Chassis Engineering C/DS that set the first record over 300. 
>>No big money, certainly no British Engineering triumph. just good 
>>old hot rodding.
>>
>>mayf




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