No actually I said 230 Miles per hour Plus...
You could stand at the back of Dougs bugeye and it would look like a bug
eye with a heavy duty driver only Roll cage... Don't walk around the front
if you are a concours guy.... you first would notice the Two Full steps
extra to get to the nose... it will be a 130 inch wheelbase... and for the
front end... cowling forward these cars are totally streamlined... the
motivation in mine will be a Small Block chevy... sorta... even it didn't
retain any of the Chevrolet name... These are Purpose built race cars that
don't have any more basis in fact then a Nascar ford or chevy..
The term Healey really is about My Love of the Austin Healey sports car in
all it's forms.. and Donald Healeys love of speed... that is what got me
heading down this Road several years ago... it is only now that I am
finally able to start assembling the parts I have collected to make this
happen... First goal this year is to assemble the parts in a Camaro and
run it on the Salt at Bonneville as well as our test / race track here on
the east coast... I am going to try and set a couple of records here... but
the honest answer is this Camaro is a brick compared to the Healey and what
the aerodynamic numbers for it will be...So I really don't expect a record
at Bonneville.. I am really going to have fun and race a car.... Next year
or the following year.. now that will be the honest effort to beat the D
Modified sports record...(the Record Donald Healey shattered in 56)
Keith Turk
Austin Healey 100 / Bugeye / Box Sprite / Bonneville Land Speed Racer
Camaro ( D Gas Altered )
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> From: Wayne Lowry <hotwheels@longviewtx.net>
> To: Keith Turk <kturk@ala.net>
> Cc: Larry & Sandi Miller <millerls@ado13.com>; spridgets@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: Bugeye Ad in Hemmings
> Date: Tuesday, February 02, 1999 8:23 PM
>
> Did he say 200 miles per hour??!! In a bugeye??!! I am truly beginning
to fear
> the depth that I may climb to due to the LBC disease. Did 90 in my bugeye
and
> all the standard functions of a truly scared person were evident. 200
MPH!! I
> want details!!
> Bruce Lowry
>
> Keith Turk wrote:
>
> > Larry I can tell you for sure unless it has a small block chevy Like
Doug
> > Odoms.. it isn't the fastest Bugeye in the world....Doug has a
conservative
> > 600hp.. and runs deep into the 170 plus range... Doug currently has the
> > fastest bugeye in the world...
> >
> > For the moment... but I am learning as we go this year and hope next
year
> > to have the fastest bugeye in the world at over 230mph...
> >
> > our first race this year is in North Carolina and the Camaro should do
> > quite well... as a continuing test bed for parts for the bugeye... I am
> > hoping to get into the two hundred mile an hour range on the salt this
> > year... The Record is 219mph for D Gas Altered... and I have to run
about
> > 15%less then that on the Air strip in North Carolina
> > to hope to best two hundred on the Salt... that doesn't get you into
the
> > two hundred mile an hour club like Donald Healey... but it get the
parts in
> > order for the record attempt in a Healey...
> >
> > Keith Turk
> > Austin Healey 100 / Bugeye / Box Sprite / Bonneville Land Speed Racer
> > Camaro ( D Gas Altered )
> > ----------
> > > From: Larry & Sandi Miller <millerls@ado13.com>
> > > To: spridgets@autox.team.net
> > > Subject: Bugeye Ad in Hemmings
> > > Date: Tuesday, February 02, 1999 6:13 PM
> > >
> > > Anyone else notice this ad in the latest Hemmings?
> > >
> > > Fastest Bugeye in the world, 450 hp, turbocharged, intercooled, Mazda
13B
> > > engine with nitrous. 5-speed, 4-wheel disc brakes, 15" Panasport
wheels.
> > > Over $35,000 invested. $19,900
> > >
> > > Larry Miller
> > >
> > >
>
>
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