Thread: So, three old farts.........

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What kind of tempatures when you were there?

Thanks for the pictures Bob! I always looked forward to the issue of HotRod when they showed the Bonneville activities, but you actually have more pictures!

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder

Originally Posted by uppster

What kind of tempatures when you were there?

Highs were around 90, though the reflection made it seem hotter. Evenings cooled down nicely.

Thats something I haven't ever done----after driving by so many interesting places while going to races or flying over them while I was still working, I want to go see and do them. I've often thought about getting our rear engine fueler back from Hawaii(they don't race there anymore) finding the front wheel fairings and taking it to the salt----with some of the near tech parts available I think we could do 400+ pretty easily---anyone interested???
Don't tell my wife while I still am keeping the trailer--she thinks its for moving somewhere with warmer winters!!!!!!!

Originally Posted by jerry clayton

Thats something I haven't ever done----after driving by so many interesting places while going to races or flying over them while I was still working, I want to go see and do them. I've often thought about getting our rear engine fueler back from Hawaii(they don't race there anymore) finding the front wheel fairings and taking it to the salt----with some of the near tech parts available I think we could do 400+ pretty easily---anyone interested???
Don't tell my wife while I still am keeping the trailer--she thinks its for moving somewhere with warmer winters!!!!!!!

Hey, the trailer scam works here, too!!!!!!

Get the old car, I hope to be ready in a couple years. We could have us a geezer drag racer reunion..... Lots of over the hill racers show up at B-Ville!!!!

The other big consideration is this..... At the geezer level, we probably don't get quite as much done as we used to when racing on a weekly schedule.... So, look at B-Ville this way; You go race for one week a year, then have another 51 weeks to make changes and do the race prep work!!!!! Way better schedule for us geezers then them loooooong days and nights every week just to keep the car competitive!!!!!!

Originally Posted by jerry clayton

Thats something I haven't ever done----after driving by so many interesting places while going to races or flying over them while I was still working, I want to go see and do them. I've often thought about getting our rear engine fueler back from Hawaii(they don't race there anymore) finding the front wheel fairings and taking it to the salt----with some of the near tech parts available I think we could do 400+ pretty easily---anyone interested???
Don't tell my wife while I still am keeping the trailer--she thinks its for moving somewhere with warmer winters!!!!!!!

let me know if i can help

but dry rot on the tires-----

Originally Posted by jerry clayton

but dry rot on the tires-----

yeah, but other then that it sounds like a heck of a good plan!!!!!!

any one has a body i have some engines a 632 donovan or 734 donovan i like to do some thing like that before they throw dirt on me

Pros and cons to the once a year deal, read about Ron Attebury's new car teething: http://atteburystreetrods.blogspot.com/

Interesting stuff.

Nice pics.

Gotta respect that crowd, work all year on the car/motorcycle to make a few runs over the period of a week.

well i never been to b-ville but a freind of mine did build the rims for the GM SO CAL belly tanker with the ecotec . i drilled the fake knock off hubs for safty clips . so that just may be as close as i ever get

Looks like a blast. Never been, saw the world's fastest indian, and ever since wanted to go at least once in this lifetime. I noticed a lot of the shots show salt on the cars. Does the salt blow around(like sand in a sand storm?) Good thing its dry! Rust my plague in life!

Originally Posted by stovens

Looks like a blast. Never been, saw the world's fastest indian, and ever since wanted to go at least once in this lifetime. I noticed a lot of the shots show salt on the cars. Does the salt blow around(like sand in a sand storm?) Good thing its dry! Rust my plague in life!

heck you CAL guys do not know what rust is come to MI and i will show you rust

Originally Posted by stovens

........ I noticed a lot of the shots show salt on the cars. Does the salt blow around(like sand in a sand storm?) Good thing its dry! Rust my plague in life!

The salt retains moisture, part of what helps it compact to such a hard surface. There isn't any apparent salt "dust" in the air (though probably is at a microscopic level), but what gets thrown off the tires sticks to the cars. It's kinda funny, you go to THE grocery store in town and there're little piles of salt deposited in almost every parking space. They had truck loads of case bottled water backed up to their dock............not their first rodeo.

Originally Posted by Ken Thurm

Bob,
Nice pics!!
This is really tragic.
Barry Bryant, 46, from Anderson, CA, lost his life on the long course while traveling over 200 mph.
Ken

Yeah, quite the tragedy. We'd already gone back to the camp site and knew something was bad when the ambulance went screaming by sirens a blaring. It wasn't very long before they went screaming back by, so they made the best effort they could, but he expired on the ride to the hospital. His dad has been doing this for close to 50 years, and they've had that car for a number of years. It had a reputation for being very stable. The word at the track was that somehow a door blew open, pressurized the tail section, blew off the deck lid and the car went airborne. Wadded it up badly. I haven't had the heart to do any more info searching to see if there's more to the story. RIP.