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[Land-speed] Worlds Fastest Sunbeam - The Rest of the Story, Day 2,

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Subject: [Land-speed] Worlds Fastest Sunbeam - The Rest of the Story, Day 2,
From: Larry Mayfield <drmayf@mayfco.com>
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 07:02:11 -0700
  Tuesday

Tuesday was WOS tech inspection and pit set up day for the normal people 
who do not arrive a day early. As is or normal routine, we have 
breakfast before heading out to the salt. That generally means that we 
hit the Red Garter around 6:15 am or so for their 2.99 breakfast. Hey, 
gotta save where we can and it is pretty much ok. A lot of teams have 
breakfast there.  And of course, we always see old friends and were 
pleasantly surprised when one of our favorites, Jon and Keilani Amo 
walked by with..surprise, a new baby! Tyler. Wow, what a nice young man. 
Jon and Keilani had a stream liner they are now running for records.  
Nice vehicle! Off to the salt to get ready for inspection. Grab the log 
book again and remove the car cover, and set up the awning. Have help 
this morning Funbeam Chuck (Chuck Colley) from Florida, just happened to 
drop in to assist and it was welcome indeed.  We pushed the car down to 
inspection and after a fair wait, we into the inspection station. Seems 
like a new crowd of inspectors each time I go. For our car, it take two 
inspectors and both must sign off. Their was noting at issue with the 
car as I am kind of anal about little things that might get me killed, 
lol... The push bar worked to perfection. BUT.... every time the car had 
been moved around since 2006, it had been on the end of the tow bar. Me, 
in the ruck doing the towing. Now, I was in the car steering. Holy 
Smokes! It makes so much noise with rattle, bangs, thumps chirps that I 
had to stop twice to see if it was falling apart, lol. It has absolutely 
no sound proofing or anti rattle installed. Never heard any of that 
before, lol. Back in the pit, we decide to upload the tune to the 
tweecer in all four positions.
Ugh oh! Having problems to get the laptop to actually write to the 
tweecer. It shows the progress bar but nothing happened. We pulled 
connectors, filled and finally go it going. Have had issues like this 
before and it is beginning to aggravate me, lol. Started data logging 
and that started and data logged ok. Then for the rest of the set up day 
we just schmoozed with people who came by. I honestly believe that the 
Sunbeam is the most photographed car on the salt, no kidding. We had 
photogs from Germany taking picture, actually two different ones. One 
had a pretty assistant, lol.  Decided to put it all away in prep for the 
next days Driver's meeting and racing on Wednesday.

mayf
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