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SOCIETY OF LAND SPEED RACING HISTORIANS
NEWSLETTER 84 - November 5, 2008
Editor: Richard Parks [email protected]
President's Corner: By Jim Miller (1-818-846-5139)

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Some Names To Look For In This Newsletter:
Southern California Timing Association, “Every Sunday Drag Races”, Bonneville Salt Flats events for 2009, “The World's Fastest Indian”, Allegheny Ludlum Steel 1936 Stainless Steel Ford, Legends of Riverside

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President's Corner:
   The more you know about how the Southern California Timing Association (S.C.T.A.) works the easier it is to understand. Let's move to the rules. I pulled out a copy of the rules from 1946 and was amazed at how simple they were. It consisted of approximately 42 paragraphs. The rule book was only used to describe classes and tech regulations. The 2008 rulebook used 103 pages to say the same thing.

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Why's that? A common saying is; "Same rules, more words." Racers will be racers and pushing the rules is what it's all about. If it doesn't say you can't use a whizbang 27 somebody is going to show up with one and tick somebody off. All this is a lead-up to last Saturday and the annual rules meeting. On the car side of the rules there were 26 pages consisting of 52 recommended changes and on the motorcycle side there were six pages and 16 recommendations. Help! Each recommended change was looked at by selected committees and discussed. Every club also gets to discuss the proposed changes too. The clubs can say yea or nay. All this is then discussed again at the big meeting. At this meeting the committee chairs get one vote. Individual clubs get one vote and two board members get to vote. In total we're talking about 20 to 24 votes that will be taken on each item. Needless to say many hours are spent on each and every one of the proposed changes no matter how out in left field some may be.
There is still one hurdle to pass before the proposals become rules and that is the S.C.T.A. Board of Directors. They have the final vote on the changes. A change could be a slam-dunk all the way, but if a majority of the board doesn't like it, consider it toast. It's all very complicated, but underlying all of this discussion is safety first and tradition second.
   I'm going to shift gears now and turn back the clock for some real early LSR history. Between the wars the British ruled when it came to land speed racing. Digging through some old posters, I ran across two dating from 1927 that featured the speed kings of the day. They were published by Associated News Service. This later became known as AP (Associated Press) and is still going strong today. 

The first shows a young Captain Malcolm Campbell buzzing across the sands at Pendine in his Napier-Campbell Blue Bird on his way to setting the fastest speed ever recorded by a motor car, 176 mph. The poster was dated February 7, 1927 and Campbell's run was on February 2, so no time was wasted getting out the news. A look at the official speed says he ran 174.883 in the Kilo and 174.224 in the Mile so a little fudge was done. The second poster is dated April 1, 1927 and shows Henry O'Neal de Hane Segrave driving his Sunbeam (Slug). The location is Daytona Beach and the run actually took place on March 16. The recorded speeds were 202.989 mph in the Kilo and 203.793 in the Mile. This is the first record set at over 200 mph. For the techies, Campbell's ride was powered by a Napier Lion "Broad Arrow" aircraft engine with 12 cylinders that put out 1,450 HP. Segrave's car used two Sunbeam Matabele V-12 engines that only put out 1,435 HP each. If you're like me you have lots of reading material stacked all over the place that you haven't looked at for some time. Dig one out from the bottom of the pile and look at it again. You might be surprised. I did such a thing the other day. It's a softbound called The Auto Racing Yearbook that was published back in 1948. In the back of it there was a 14 page classified directory listing manufacturers, etc, of the day that I had never really looked at so I did a look see. To my surprise there was a listing of 21 photographers that made their living shooting race pictures. Better yet there were addresses to reach them. It's a long shot but some of these guys, negatives or prints might still exist. Seems the hunt for lost treasure never ends.
Caption: #391 Bluebird sets world record
Caption: #392 Sunbeam sets world record

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Editorial:
   A recurrent saying that is brought up is this; "I enjoy reading the newsletter and wish I had something to say, but I'm not a historian." Or they will tell me in idle conversation that they are only a spectator and have never raced a car or been a member of a club or a racing team. Others will say that they never went to college and have no degree as a historian. The list of self-effacing excuses goes on and on and never seems to stop. A historian, by definition, is someone who "saves the past and records what happened for the future good." I call myself an amateur historian simply because I am not paid for what I do. Others write books, take photographs, are paid for their services and I like to call them professional historians. There is no difference between the quality of content between a professional historian and one who is an amateur historian. Nor does my four years and a Batchelors Degree in Asian History qualify me to be an expert in the field. I have studied history for decades and I am especially interested in the people who write, research, photograph and maintain historical studies. What sets them apart from the rest of us is their burning passion to know the past and to save it, not their pay status or college degrees. 
   The Society of Land Speed Racing Historians is a group that encourages everyone, from the casual collector, fan and history buff, to the more advanced researcher, writer and photographer of racing history. If you are a passive member, one who enjoys reading what we do, we won't hold that against you, for a fan is much better than a detractor. But I have to question why you are interested at all, since we exist to save history, not simply enjoy it. We are a group that is driven to get that interview and story before one of our heroes passes away and becomes a distant memory. We are motivated to caption photos and collect them and research all that we can. We are pushed to write down and record all the stories, biographies and histories that we can before it is too late and all the sources are lost to us. We need help in doing this, because the task before us is large and our resources are tiny. We need every member, every fan, every believer in our goal to step forward and do what they can, not sit on the sidelines and be bemused by what we are trying to do. What good are you to us if you won't write your biography, or the biographies of your family and friends in racing who have passed away and can't write their own stories? What good are you to us if you won't caption your photographs and explain to others what your collections and memorabilia actually mean? 
   We are a working society, though we have no dues or responsibilities. We ask, but never demand, that you work as well as enjoy the topics at hand. Many of you have intimate knowledge of the subjects that we are dealing with and if something happens to you, that knowledge and history will be lost, perhaps forever. You, the readers who don't respond, are in effect stealing the history at your disposal from the rest of us. We need you, yet you don't respond. One of the constant excuses is that you will get to it later, but right now you have to go turn on the TV set and listen to McCain or Obama. I can't wait for you. I have work to do and deadlines to meet and I know what you are. You are procrastinators and you will put off your story, your history and heritage until it is too late and we will never get it. Worse, we will never be able to pass it down to the next generation. What causes this selfishness in all of us? The more I think about it, it comes down to one word and it isn't complacency. It's fear. It's the sense that if we do something others will make fun of us or we won't be as literate and knowledgeable as others. All that may be true. I know that I split infinitives, use the wrong case, misspell words and get some facts wrong from time to time and yet I know that a less than perfect editor of the newsletter is preferable to no editor at all. And the same is true of you all. A less than perfect story from you is much better than silence. I can't put out a newsletter unless you, the readers and members, write to me.
   We ought to have a motto and perhaps that motto could be, "Every member a contributor and every contributor a member." Here's what I want from all of you, for every three newsletters you read, you owe us a historical story or fact in return. It's your subscription price for receiving the newsletter. You pay your dues by participating and giving us what you know in return. There are myriad ways of supporting us. You can support our sponsors. You can write to us about past and current news. You can tell us what your team is up to. We haven't heard from the Aussies down under. What are you guys up to? What about the East Coast Timing Association and their activities, past and present. Where are the USFRA guys and what are their goals? There are a thousand SCTA members and so far we only have about 10 biographies from them. If this is the amount of effort that you put into something, then you must really be profound and dedicated couch potatoes. Finally, when we meet at a going away party (funeral) for one of us, one who is never coming back in this world, and they say he was a "great man," that may be true, but was he great enough to leave behind a record for the rest of us? If not, start writing. NOW!

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I am very pleased to say that we were able to find a Roadster like the one depicted in some of the pictures of Wally that we are displaying. 
The couple that own the Roadster are John and Beth Collins of Central Florida. They will be here Saturday and Sunday, November 1st and 2nd to take part in the event. We are all so pleased to have this opportunity to honor your father.  Ernie Schorb
   Ernie, John and Beth: Thank you so much for your efforts to honor Wally Parks and for keeping hot rodding in your hearts and minds. The purpose of these events, as my father would tell you, is to get together, remember the traditions and heritage of the past and have a good time. My father wouldn't have felt comfortable being the center of attention, but he would have gladly lent his name and prestige to any event that promotes the one thing that he loved most in life and that is the car culture. He also promoted racing safety with a vengeance. I remember one time when I was with him that exemplifies that passion. I was about 12 at the time, so it was in the mid-fifties and we were driving down Ocean Blvd on the Balboa Peninsula, when he made a dead stop in the street and at the time I thought maybe he was trying to avoid an accident, but as there were no cars on the road at the time, it seemed strange. He put the car into park, right in the middle of the street, jumped out and bought a newspaper and got back into the car, very angry at the headlines, which read, "DRAG RACER kills pedestrian in a street race." He couldn't wait to get back to the office and call the reporter and editor of the article and tell them that drag racers don't race on public streets, but on safe and sanctioned race courses, with safety crews and procedures. He railed against illegal street racing all his life and sought remedies for such dangerous activities. He was acutely aware that the public could turn against all racing, hot rodding and the car culture that he loved unless he and his allies fought diligently to curb perilous and illegal street racing. This passion, which became his life, took him all over the country and my brother, David, and I saw very little of our father, but we were proud of him and what he did to save lives. There have been all sorts of statistics done to try and estimate the number of lives saved over the last six decades due to the actions taken by good men and women to divert street racers onto safe and sanctioned race tracks. They range from a few thousand up to figures in the five digit range. Even one life saved is worth the effort to continue to work towards safer racing activities. My request of you, is to continue to further this goal, which my father and so many others started. You do that by doing what you are doing, holding reunions, writing down your histories and biographies, captioning your photos, teaching the younger generation of the past, joining car clubs, participating in car shows and rallies and setting an example for those to follow us. I would caution people to not make a cult figure of any one man, but to see what that man and his friends did in his lifetime. That's why I publish biographies of everyone who will write their histories, because we can learn from all of you. Every hot rodder is worthy of his story and we will publish them all. As I have told Ernie Schorb, the list of those who need to be honored and remembered is limitless. I sponsor a Honorary Award Program, and its goals are to bring our traditions and heritage out into the open and keep it fresh in the minds of the next generation. Please continue to do what you are doing, whether it is in my father's name or simply to honor the goals that my dad worked for. Our family thanks you all for your contributions to a worthy cause, which is the car culture that defines and makes us better people.

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Thank you so very much for your help. I will definitely call him and I will try to get some info together for you to go over biography wise from my father, grandmother etc that you might be interested in so I will be in contact with you as well. Once again thank you, Cameron Conkle
   Cameron: I'll look forward to the history that you are collecting and will publish it in the newsletter.

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I saw your review of Long and Tuttle's “Every Sunday Drag Races”: It looks like it has some information I need. How does one go about buying a copy? Thanks, Roger Harrell
Roger: Don Tuttle has passed away and most of his research has been purchased by others. “Every Sunday Drag Races” was a project by Leslie Long and Tuttle to clip newspaper articles, such as they were, from local papers of the era in which the Santa Ana Drags were in operation. Tuttle and Long then xeroxed the clippings and photographs and made copies at a copy shop. The text and photos are grainy and sometimes hard to read, but I know of no other source for early drag racing results at Santa Ana. I've been trying to get Berardini, Kraft, Ryssman, Dodd and some of the other early racers to do their biographies and write their stories of this fabled drag strip, the "Father of Modern Drag Racing Strips." If you can find a copy on eBay, then count yourself VERY lucky. Since all the book really consists of are newspaper clippings, anyone could go back to the microfilm records of the Orange County Register or other newspapers and make copies from the microfilm, but it would be a daunting and time consuming task. Send me an email to let me know in what area you live and I can give you an idea of where you can go to borrow and make a copy of this very special booklet. Also, for the general readers of the Society, a note about why I reviewed ”Every Sunday Drag Races”. I knew at the time that I reviewed the Tuttle/Long booklet that there were few if any copies for sale and that it was a self-published, actually copied, project by the authors. www.hotrodhotline.com and others pressed me for an answer as to why I would waste my time and theirs on a booklet that couldn't be purchased. My efforts are to preserve the history and heritage of hot rodding and land speed racing, including early drag racing. “Every Sunday Drag Races” gives a great deal of facts and figures that exist nowhere else. It also saves a researcher a great amount of time as the copying from the newspapers has already been done. I am hoping that others will do the same thing and go to newspaper files and copy all the results from all the other early drag strips around the country. I apologize to the readers for this problem, that is, telling them about a book that is nearly impossible to get, but it does exist and it is priceless.
Postscript: Roger, I continued to make calls and here's the latest update. Leslie Long has provided magazine articles, Drag News articles, clippings from various local newspapers and other information contained in ”Every Sunday Drag Races” and has given the material to Jim Miller who has sent it back to the American Hot Rod Foundation (AHRF) in New York. The AHRF is setting up a new web page. Leslie also sent in information on the Bakersfield and Riverside drag strips and early dry lakes racing results. The dry lake results include the SCTA Racing News, early Muroc programs from the 1930's and other articles, up to 1949. Go to the www.AHRF site and see if they have this material up on their website. I spoke to Jim Miller and he says it should be ready anytime now.

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The link didn't work, but please add me to the mailing list. I enjoy your Hotrod Hotline very much and would appreciate receiving this package as well. Thank you, Randy Brealey (Chelsea Farms alpacas)
Randy: Try going back to www.landspeedracing.com and sign up again. Mary Ann Lawford tells me that it is a simple process and one that she is working on all the time to make simpler and better for us. Also, I believe the same process applies to www.hotrodhotline.com. Notice that I am running your email in the newsletter and I feel that I owe you and the other members an explanation as to why I run everything. Many readers tell me that I don't need to run everything in the newsletter, but here are my reasons. One, what people ask me is important. If I can answer one person's question, then other people can learn from that experience. Two, it helps the members get to know each other when they see names mentioned in the newsletter. My father always use to chide me as a namedropper. He always edited what I wrote to him. He would write back and say that his birthday card was too long and that I could shorten it by half. But it's important in a historical journal to leave as much information as possible, because we never know what future historians might find useful. Three, Mary Ann and I really enjoy hearing from the readers and we encourage everyone to write in. Now you get to respond. Have you gone land speed racing and what have you witnessed that you could share with us in our newsletter. Please write your biography and caption your photos and write to us again.

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You may get a newsletter that is all out of format... we are still having trouble with it. I am going to try to send again and use a different setting so this won't happen. Thanks, Mary Ann Lawford
   Mary Ann: I saw issue #83 and while it was truncated, it was still readable and we appreciate all the time and effort that you are putting in to give us a place to publish our Society Newsletter

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I can't recall if we've ever met, but my name is Steve Doll and I worked at Bell Auto with Kenny, Chuck Strader, Jot Horne, Bill Hardison and Rich Lenarz from January of 1966 until 1969 when I went to work at M/T Speed shop with Jack Ewell. I have been 100% disabled since January 1998 due to a failed quadruple by-pass surgery. I just wanted to say that I really enjoy the newsletter and a lot of the people mentioned! Thank You so much and keep up the great work! Steve Doll, Mesa, Arizona
Steve: We are glad you enjoy the newsletter. Here's what we would like you to do, because anyone who worked at Bell Auto Parts is a very special person. Art Bagnall's book on “Roy Richter” is one of my favorites. I rank it as one of the top 50 all time racing history books, especially on the Southern California racing scene. I looked for your name in the index, but didn't find it. Bell Auto Parts played a pivotal role in dry lakes, drag and oval track racing. Would you write your biography and be sure to tell us all that you know that went on at the store while you were there, and at M/T as well. It is these shops where history was made. We get a lot of stories of events, but the shops are often ignored and that's a loss to us all. I would like to know more about Horne, Strader, Kenny, Richter, Hardison, Lenarz, yourself and anyone else at the shop. Otherwise, their history will be lost to us forever.
Sample questionaire:
a) Where did your family come from; your parents and grandparents and what did they do for a living?
b) Where were you born and where did you grow up? What elementary, junior high and high school did you attend?
c) Did you take any shop classes, while you were in school? Name your friends, especially those interested in racing.
d) Did you join any car clubs or work on or own a car, or a race car, or work as a crewman on a race car while in school?
e) What kind of jobs did you have as a young person while growing up? What kinds of hobbies and interests did you have?
f) What did you do after graduation? Did you join the military? Were you drafted? Did you fight in the war?
g) What kind of racing did you get involved in? Did you own a racecar, drive a racecar or work as a crewman?
h) Who were some of your friends that were involved in racing with you? Name and describe them.
i) Tell us about your family, your wife and children. Were they involved in racing?
j) What kind of work did you find after you left school? Was it racing related employment?
k) Are you retired from racing? What are you doing today?
Postscript: Readers, Steve Doll took up the challenge and within 3 days produced a fascinating 3000 word history that includes a lot of history on Bell Auto Parts. Steve's biography was then sent to Roger Rohrdanz, the Gone Racin' team leader, who will review it and send it on to www.hotrodhotline.com, where you can read it under Guest Columnist/Richard's corner in about a week.

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Where can one find a schedule of events at Bonneville Salt Flats for 2009? Earl Stinson
Earl: I looked up the SCTA/BNI website at http://www.scta-bni.org/, and they list the following schedules for 2009; Speedweek, August 8-14, with inspections beginning on August 7, 2009. Worlds Finals October 7-10, 2009. My brother is attending the rules committee meeting November 1, at Lancaster and if there is any change in the schedules, I will post it to the newsletter.

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Thanks for calling me a "historian"...if qualification is based on the love of motor sports, then I'm your guy. In October you asked to know more about the 'Indian' movie I mentioned. The movie is “The World's Fastest Indian”, (http://www.imdb.com/media/rm4125659648/tt0412080) released in 2005 and directed by Roger Donaldson and stars Academy Award winner Anthony Hopkins as the main character in the life story of New Zealander Burt Munro. As the story goes, Munro spent years building a 1920 Indian motorcycle with a burning desire to break 200 mph at Bonneville, Utah and set a World Land Speed Record. For anyone who has the slightest interest in land speed record racing, this is THE cult movie.

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WVO-2-84-Fresno Run '64

And in my opinion, it is in many respects, equal to the cult status of American Graffiti! Unfortunately, poor marketing of the movie left it unknown to most of the public and many gearheads as well. If you get a chance to see it, be sure to watch all of the extras...the original documentary “Offerings to the God of Speed” with the real Burt Munro is without equal! Again, Vern Tardel and his friends from the Sonoma County area, provided about two dozen cars for the movie as well as a mocked up Belly Tank car that is still at Vern's shop in Santa Rosa. As I understand, the story depicted in the movie was based on several years of Bert's attempts to reach 200 mph on his bike. And to give you a little "authenticity" about Bert, my friend Wayne Van Order of Fairfield, California, took the attached snap shot of Bert's Indian in 1966 at Bonneville on the salt. I don't think that is Bert standing beyond the bike. However, unless I miss my guess, the tow car is the old '53-'54 Chevy station wagon tow car that was depicted in the movie. Wayne Van Order has many more photos from the 1960's that he took at Bonneville as well as some early hot rod runs with the Bay Area Roadsters from Northern California running down to the Fresno area to meet up with some of the So Cal Roadsters.

As I get more information from him, I will forward the photos with captions. I have scanned and digitized over 350 photos from his photo albums. The second photo attachment is of one of the Rod Runs to Fresno, California in 1964. Van Order's car is the yellow '31 Ford Roadster, 4th from the left. An interesting note: he still owns this car and is currently finishing up a third re-do since that photo was taken. He and the '31 will be out running the roads again early in 2009. Regards, Bob Choisser, Vacaville, California.
Bob: Thank you for the story. Please talk to Van Order and ask him to caption all those photographs, because it looks like he has a real treasure and we don't want to see those photos uncaptioned and most of the information lost. The original Indian was exhibited at the Petersen Automotive Museum and the Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum during the opening of the film. I have a movie review of “The World's Fastest Indian” on www.hotrodhotline.com. Hopkins was his usual best. The young boy in the New Zealand footage was very good, but it was the action photography on the salt that was some of the best I've ever seen. Unfortunately, the film dwelt too much on his Hollywood adventures and taxicab rides and spent too little time developing the characters at Bonneville. The film was generally outstanding, but these types of films have limited appeal with mostly teenage movie goers, who prefer gore, sex and horror over a truly motivational story plot. Tell Van Order and Tardel to give you more on what they know. You did a great job and we want more.
Caption: WVO-1 Burt Munro at Bonneville 1966
Caption: WVO-2 Fresno Run 1964

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Long or short on a bio? I would be happy to fill in a lot of the gap, if you want to save that part of my life. Or better, just a short paragraph or two that shows the start and up to now? Glenn Freudenberger
   Glenn: The rule that Jim Miller and I have for publishing biographies on line is that they cannot exceed two million words. Anything less than that is perfectly fine. How long do you want to make your biography? We take whatever is offered to us. Most people write two versions, a longer one for their family and children and a shorter one for the websites and friends. Remember, it is future historians who will use your history to help them understand what occurred. If you make your bio too short, you rob them of important information. You can't make it too long. The average bio that I help people edit runs about 1500 words. We have two bios around 6000 words and one bio that is 77,000 words. I find them all interesting.

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I assume from the article that you wrote about Otto (Ryssman) that you have his address and phone #, which I also have in case you or someone needs it. However, as you know it is better to get the inquirers name and number to pass on to who they want to contact. I ran into Otto about 3 years ago when I was in Bull Head City and we had a wonderful time reminiscing, he is truly a champion. Also, you mentioned Marvin Lee's name in one of your notes. Marvin was a good friend of your Father's and, as I recall the first Secretary/Treasurer of the NHRA. I knew Marvin when I was with NHRA and we became very good friends, maybe it was because I had one of his engines in my 1948 Chevy Fleetline. Marv built "stove bolt Chevy's" and ran at the lakes as well as at Santa Ana. Keep up the good work, Chic Cannon
   Chic: Can you write the story of what you did at NHRA. The readers may not know that without you and the other Safety Safari members, that drag racing in the early days might have failed. You, Bud Coons, Eric 'Rick' Rickman and Bud Evans are responsible for much of the early success of drag racing, when land speed and drag racing were beginning to separate into two distinct sports. My father always emphasized the importance of that early safety safari. Also, tell us more about Marvin Lee, and the other Lee (Lee Ryan).

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I just wanted to apologize for not following your suggested format, but I got started and just couldn't quit. I talked to Jot Horne this morning and found out that he raced at Bonneville in 1949 in a channeled '32 roadster powered by a Duesenberg. I also knew that he designed the Cragar wheel and he also sold a lot of products to Cragar such as blower manifolds, gas pedals, air cleaners, etc. I hope what I sent to you was informative and not too boring. Steve Doll
Steve: Nothing you have sent has been boring. The stories about the people you have met at Bell Auto Parts and Mickey Thompson Tires has been fascinating and we want more from you. I'm sending back the first draft of your biography and after you make the additions and corrections, send it back to me to correct the bio in my records. When it is done to your satisfaction, I will publish it at www.hotrodhotline.com. Does Jot have an email address so that I can contact him? You are doing fine and I hope we can get you to write down all of your stories for us. As for the outline, that is just a suggestion and no one has to follow it. The outline is a guide and it helps me to go through the bios that I receive and write them faster, in an almost assembly line style, since I don't have much time left to get as many bios and stories finished.

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The following article was sent in by Vic Enyart.
"1936 Stainless Steel Ford This is the 1936 Ford built for and owned by Allegheny Ludlum Steel. It was attending our open house and then was featured in a local parade with over 100 of our salaried, hourly and retired employees walking alongside. This is 1 of only 4 in existence and is the only one currently in running & in road worthy condition. The car is in exceptional condition, with the interior and even the frame looking great. All 4 cars each had over 200,000 miles on them before they removed them from service. These cars were built for Allegheny as promotional and marketing projects. The top salesmen each year were given the honor of being able to drive them for one year. The V-8 engine (max 85 hp) ran like a sewing machine and was surprisingly smooth and quite. I thought this was a much better looking automobile than the Ford that visited us last year. FYI, the car was insured (we were told) for the trip to Louisville via covered trailer for 1.5 million dollars. We were also told that the dies were ruined by stamping the stainless car parts, making these the last of these cars ever produced. See Allegheny Ludlum's website at; http://www.alleghenyludlum.com/pages/companyinfo/stainlesscars.asp. Photos of the car are on the website.

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Can I edit? I see a couple of errors on my part. Anonymous
Dear Readers: The newsletter is open for all and I try and run it as a blog as much as a magazine/newspaper. Please feel free to write as much as you want and to share news with us. You are also free to edit and change what you sent in, until it has gone to print so to speak, actually just mailed out. Once the newsletter has been sent, it's impossible to recall. However, I look at everything and I do edit the content somewhat. Not much, but a little here and there. For example, if you add a lot of !!!! or >>> or <<< or ......, those will all go away. If you include your email address, phone number or street address, I will delete that personal information, unless you tell me to publish it. The newsletter goes out to a small group, but I never know how many will forward it on to people I don't know, so you have to give me permission to include personal information, such as addresses. I also correct some grammar and spelling, IF it looks like it isn't your normal way of talking or writing. Some people put a ' after ing, droppin' the g and makin' it just in.' I also put a period, that's a ., before " quotation marks, like "this." The total number of editing corrections, deletions or additions is minimal at best, but I do some editing when I put the newsletter together. I don't edit out content unless you tell me that it is personal and confidential. Sometimes what you tell me SOUNDS personal and so I will send it back to you with this comment; "The following will appear in the next issue of the newsletter...." AND, I will also send you a short note saying, "Is this for the newsletter or just for me?" In some cases I get it wrong and print something that shouldn't be printed or fail to print something that you want me to print. When I find out I will do a retraction and an apology. This is your newsletter and you can send in public notices as often as you wish.

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The Legends of Riverside Racing Film Festival and Gala, March 27-29, 2009. Our Southern Yosemite Automotive Film Festival was a great success and a lot of fun, but even using the largest building in my town, we could only handle 100 people.

MAC-SM

I've joined forces with Doug Magnon's Riverside Raceway Museum to put on the film festival in a larger facility, more convenient to major population centers, and featuring forums about F5000, the CanAm, USRRC and the original Cannonball Run. See www.legendsofriverside.com! Dave Wolin, resent to us by Doug Stokes
Caption: Riverside Raceway.

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