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SOCIETY OF LAND SPEED RACING HISTORIANS
NEWSLETTER 87 - December 2, 2008
Editor: Richard Parks RnParks1@juno.com
President's Corner: By Jim Miller (1-818-846-5139)

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Some Names To Look For In This Newsletter:
Eric "Rick" Rickman update, Henry "Buddy" Fitzgerel passed away, George Barris Birthday, looking for Road Runners biographies, Steven Thomsen is looking for Info, Patrick Plenge's reproduction of an official's car at Bonneville in the 50’s, I'm trying to locate Brett Johansen, last Prolong Twilight Cruise of the year, Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance entrant information, Speedseekers has been finally published

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President's Corner:  
   Before USAC there was the A.A.A. and they ruled speed record events in the United States. It didn't matter how fast you went, if it wasn't sanctioned by the A.A.A. you didn't get a record. We are talking about National Records and there were a lot you could get. The other day I found a document titled "Official American Stock Car Records recognized by the A.A.A. Contest Board (August 16, 1932)." It was originally sent to the Auburn Automobile Company as a reference for their upcoming record attempts. It consisted of six pages neatly typed that covered the existing stock car records. The first five pages listed the various classes and speeds, date set and type of car that set it. It also listed the previous record holders and like information. The last page was the most interesting. It was a list of Hill Climb Records. Of note is that no speeds were given, only the times it took to make the runs. One normally doesn't think of climbs as speed records but the A.A.A. did. I don't have a clue as to how many times each event took place but it would make a nice research project for a dedicated historian. Heading the list of events was naturally Pikes Peak, which had three classes established. One has to assume that for the rest, quickest guy wins regardless of engine size or price. I know there were more climbs across the country that never made the A.A.A. cut but we have to start somewhere. Here's the list.
9-22-29 Pikes Peak, Colorado Springs, CO ~ Studebaker President Roadster (Stock Cars selling over $1000)
9-05-32 Pikes Peak, Colorado Springs, CO ~ Essex Terraplane (Stock Cars selling under $1000)
9-05-32 Pikes Peak, Colorado Springs, CO ~ Essex Terraplane (Special Racing Unlimited Class)   Shultz-Stutz Special
3-13-31 Quaker Hill, Pimlico, Baltimore, MD ~ Studebaker President Roadster
3-13-31 Avalon Hill, Baltimore, MD ~ Studebaker President Roadster
3-17-31 Saw Mill Road, Philadelphia, PA ~ Studebaker President Roadster
3-17-31 Hermits Lane, Philadelphia, PA ~ Studebaker President Roadster
3-24-31 Summit Mountain, Uniontown, PA ~ Studebaker President Roadster
3-25-31 Springfield Hill, Connersville, PA ~ Studebaker President Roadster
3-25-31 Town Hill Mountain, Cumberland, MD ~ Studebaker President Roadster
3-30-31 Catawba Mountain, Salem VA ~ Studebaker President Roadster
3-30-31 Mill Mountain, Roanoke, VA ~ Studebaker President Roadster
4-02-31 Patterson Hill, Knoxville, TN ~ Studebaker President Roadster
4-04-31 "W" Road to Walden's Ridge, Signal Mountain, Chattanooga TN ~ Studebaker President Roadster
4-05-31 Lookout Mountain, Chattanooga TN ~ Studebaker President Roadster
4-05-31 Cameron Hill, Chattanooga TN ~ Studebaker President Roadster
4-07-31 Buena Vista Ave. Hill, Atlanta, GA ~ Studebaker President Roadster
4-07-31 Stewart Avenue, Atlanta, GA ~ Studebaker President Roadster
4-08-31 Eula Street Hill, Birmingham, AL ~ Studebaker President Roadster
4-09-31 Oxmoor Hill, Shades Mountain, Birmingham, AL ~ Studebaker President Roadster
4-10-31 Brown's Hill, Montgomery, AL ~ Studebaker President Roadster
4-10-31 Gunter Hill, Montgomery, AL ~ Studebaker President Roadster
4-17-31 Fish Creek Hill, Phoenix, AZ ~ Studebaker President Roadster
4-29-31 City Creek Hill, San Bernardino, CA ~ Studebaker President Roadster
6-13-31 Penitentiary Hill, Salt Lake City, UT ~ Studebaker President Roadster
6-14-31 Big Cottonwood Canyon, Salt Lake City, UT ~ Studebaker President Roadster Brighton Mountain, Studebaker President Roadster
6-30-31 Mount Washington, Gorham, NH ~ Studebaker President Roadster
7-03-31 Mount Mansfield, Stowe, VT ~ Studebaker President Roadster
7-07-31 Mount Wachusett, Princeton, MS ~ Studebaker President Roadster
7-09-31 Mt Holyoke, South Hadley, MS ~ Studebaker President Roadster
7-11-31 Shingle Hill, West Haven, CT ~ Studebaker President Roadster
7-15-31 Fort George Hill, New York, NY ~ Studebaker President Roadster
7-22-31 Edgewater-Fort Lee Hill, Edgewater, NJ ~ Studebaker President Roadster
7-14-32 Cushenbury & Johnson Grades,  San Bernardino, CA ~ DeVaux Coupe 
7-20-32 Wrightwood Hill, San Bernardino, CA ~ Auburn Brougham
7-20-32 Hollow Hill Road, San Bernardino, CA ~ Auburn Brougham
7-20-32 City Creek Hill, San Bernardino, CA ~ Auburn Brougham
7-21-32 Mount Baldy, Los Angeles, CA ~ Auburn Speedster
7-22-32 Lower Waterman Canyon, San Bernardino, CA ~ Auburn Brougham 
7-22-32 Upper Waterman Canyon, (new road) San Bernardino, CA ~ Auburn Brougham 
7-22-32 Crestline Village, San Bernardino, CA ~ Auburn Brougham (Rim of the World)
   If you look closely it looks like the Studebaker boys stopped at every podunk hill they could. It was the depression and records hopefully sold cars. The same could be said for Auburn trying to sell their cars to the Hollywood types. The only oddball of the bunch was the short-lived DeVaux. Any way you look at these venues that lasted from 12.5 seconds to 27:18.2 minutes, speed records were set. Isn't our job fun.

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Editorial:
   We are finding out new historical facts daily. These aren't lost facts, as someone knows about them and relays the information to us. Neither did Columbus "discover" the Americas, because the natives who lived there were very clear about their knowledge of North and South America. The history of land speed racing, early drag racing and hot rodding hasn't been totally "lost" to us either, but every day that goes by there are records that are destroyed through carelessness, age or natural disasters. Each precious day is an opportunity to interview someone and get their bio and story. Every day that we fail to preserve the past is a lost opportunity. It's not that Jim and I don't work hard at what we are doing, because we do. The problem lies in the sheer immensity of the problem and that if we had 100 volunteers working 8 hours a day, five days a week, all year long, it still wouldn't be enough. We are losing approximately a garage full of artifacts, photographs and history every day. Think about that, a space that's 20 feet wide, times 20 feet in depth, times 10 feet in height that is lost every 24 hours. It could be even more, based on research done in other fields, such as genealogy. Add up all of your prized possession and fill that space and then take it to the dump and you will see the pain and grief that such losses come to in our effort to preserve history.  I'm not even talking about auto parts, simply historical materials such as photographs, biography, text, books and documents.
   Jim and I can't do this task by ourselves, which is why we organized the Society of Land Speed Racing Historians in order to enlist your support. We provide a newsletter to report on the progress that you make. Mary Ann and Jack Lawford provide an on-line website to spread the newsletter. It is up to the some 400 members of the Society to do the research and at a minimum, keep and update your records and share them with the rest of us. Sometimes that simply means that you share your life and biography with us. Or, caption your photographs so that future generations will know who, what, where, when and why these photographs are of importance to your family or to the rest of the members and avid historians. At a minimum, these are the things that you need to do. After that you can interview those people that you know, but we don't and add their knowledge to our society.

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He (Eric "Rick" Rickman) has stabilized, however he has very few moments of understanding the world around him. His blood pressure is very low and his heart is getting weaker. There was a time that I did get him to understand that all his friends were rooting for him and it got a smile. There is talk of moving him from the intensive care unit to a convalescent home. I wish I had better news, only time will tell. I will keep you posted if there is anything new. My thanks to everyone for your support.  Micheal Rickman (received Friday, November 21, 2008)
   Micheal: Please keep us informed and let us know if they will allow visitors or if it would be better to wait. We will keep him in our thoughts and prayers.

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Henry "Buddy" Fitzgerel died November 12, 2008 doing what he loved best, driving one of his prized vehicles, a 2005 Cadillac XLR, capable of reaching a speed of 100 mph in less than 12 seconds. His brother-in-law, Lloyd "Andy" Anderson, said Buddy was driving home from a Road Runners Car Club meeting in Riverside. He pulled over to the side of the road, parked and died of a heart attack. He was 67. Thursday at his funeral in Brea's Memory Garden Memorial Park, one of Buddy's special vehicles, a white 1950's Ford pickup in which he had raced and set a speed record in the late 1980's at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, was parked outside the chapel during his memorial service. Fitzgerel was born July 6, 1941 at Murphy Hill Hospital in Whittier, California. He attended East Whittier schools. As a student at California High School, he set a number of running records in track. After high school, he entered the U.S. Army in 1964, serving two years, including a stint in Vietnam in the medical corps. Never married, Fitzgerel went on to a 30-year career as supplies manager for the East Whittier City School District. His family remembers him as a thoughtful man, who cared for his mother in her aging years, sent flowers to his sisters on their special occasions and kept his nieces and nephews laughing with his easy-going sense of humor. Fitzgerel was a member up to his death of the Road Runners Car Club, which had its beginning in 1937 and held early meetings in Whittier and Huntington Park. Its emphasis was on speed trials on deserts in the west, such as Bonneville and El Mirage Dry Lake. Among the Road Runners' famous local members was the late Ak Miller, a Danish immigrant who settled in Whittier and had worked for and become close friends of the Richard M. Nixon family. He was a nine-time winner of the Pikes Peak Hill Climb. Fitzgerel is survived by sisters, Beverly and her husband, Andy, of Whittier and Susan and her husband, Jerry, of La Habra, six nieces and nephews, 10 great-nieces and nephews and one great-great-niece, and his dog, Blackie. "Buddy" Fitzgerel's funeral included a military honor guard. By Bill Bell

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Jerry Cornelison sent us a website listing the biographies and history that they are compiling for their Road Runner's members. Here's the link; http://www.ussarcherfish.com/roadrunners/member.htm. The Road Runners are compiling some very serious history and we urge the other clubs to follow and do the same thing. Good job Jerry.

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We're proud to call George Barris a friend here at Hotrodhotline, he is one of those industry icons who has contributed so much with his vision and talent. There are many rodders who have admired him and his work for many years. Jack was fortunate enough to live near the famous Barris shop in North Hollywood, California in the 1960's, so he got a first hand look at the work that went on there. Happy Birthday Friend!  George's birthday is Sunday, November 23rd.  Jack and Mary Ann Lawford from www.hotrodhotline.com.

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Fellow Road Runners and Friends of Road Runners: I'm beginning to compile some biographical information on our friend Buddy. I posted what I have collected so far to a new entry on our "Members Spotlight" page on our Road Runners website. It is a "work in progress." Here is the link: http://www.ussarcherfish.com/roadrunners/buddy.htm. You can access the full "Members Spotlight" page from the Road Runners homepage. I am so sorry that I did not complete a biographical interview with Buddy and get pictures of his Bonneville and El Mirage racing days and racecars before we lost him. Thanks to Richard Parks, Editor, Society of Land Speed Racing Historians, and Jim Miller, President of the Society, we have a guide that makes it very easy to complete a biographical outline. It is an easy way to share information about yourself with family and friends. Please consider completing the outline and creating your "bio." It's a nice gift for family and friends to have now and once we are gone.
Sample questionnaire from Society of Land Speed Racing Historians:
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?
Hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving! Jerry Cornelison, glc311@att.net, Road Runners - SCTA (established 1937)

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As our visitorship grows, www.Hotrodhotline.com now has 50,000 visits a day. We begin to put a strain on our servers which are the computers that drive all of our sites. So every few years we have to upgrade to the newest and fastest equipment we can find. This week we got our new servers and we have just put two new high speed servers officially online, which will mean increased speed and efficiency for our viewing visitors. Unfortunately, there are always a few wrinkles to get ironed out so we may not get this newsletter online today. We should be all squared away by tomorrow though and then everyone should notice a big difference in speed of the site, which is a good thing. Janice has been working on the revamp of Richards Corner menu pages. Can you take a look and let us know what you think. If we need to make any changes just let us know. Here's the link http://www.hotrodhotline.com/feature/guestcolumnists/richardscorner/ . Thanks, Mary Ann Lawford
Mary Ann and Janice: You are having way too much fun with this hot rodding website. But we like it too and so do a lot of others who write to me and tell me how much it has affected their lives and how much fun they are having. The site looks great, though I confess that I'm too busy writing to have much time to do any reading.

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Thanks for your email and sorry for the slow response...I just got home....I will join up with you guys very soon... great site, great people, fantastic sport... Rosco
   Rosco: Start working on your biography and captioning your photographs. I'm sure that our readers will want to hear your story.

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I used to work for Jack Lufkin & Ak at Ak's garage on Slauson in Pico Rivera. Jack has not been able to help. Leonard no longer works for him but I have spoken with him (although not recently). I will contact him again. Ralph Welch was with the Sheriffs Dept at that time but I have not been able to get any information from them. I'm not even sure if he is still with us. Jack Stratton seems to have disappeared! I will keep looking and asking and thanks for the help in the newsletter. Steven Thomsen
Steven: Your first request went out today (Wednesday, November 19) and this email will go out in next week's newsletter. I split up emails and duplicate them. You might say that I build redundancies into requests like these and the reason is to keep our readers attention focused on problems. You may write in as often as you wish with more requests or just tell us about your experiences. Here's a suggestion; you can never ask enough times. When I write bios for people or do their stories, they will often tell me that "they don't know," then I rephrase the question again and again and then I will use a "code" word that opens the floodgates to their memories. A code word is how we store and index our memories. Once you hit upon that word, it will trigger memories that the speaker forgot that they possessed. Another technique is to ask Lufkin and Carr for 5 people they think might know more about the car, or post a placard at a reunion or a car show. The best place is at the Petersen or Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum, when they hold events and lots of old timers are present. You can try a phone tree, which I find very successful, and to a lesser extent, an email tree. If the person you are calling or emailing cannot help you, ask them for 5 people and phone numbers that might know something. At the very least, word will soon get around that there's a "Steven" looking for people. Drag the net wide and you will be surprised at what you turn up. If all else fails, then write the story of what happened as you remember it with all the detail that you can bring to bear. Sometimes, unfortunately, we are the LAST source for a story or history and though we aren't the best source, we are the only source. Write and share the story here at www.landspeedracing.com. Your story might just be the code word trigger that leads to another source that you need.

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I've seen your article on the Hotrodhotline, wondered if you might be able to help? I am putting together a replica push car from Bonneville out of a 4 dr 1961 Plymouth Belvedere. I am looking for some pics of time slips and log books or anything else that would tie in so I could reproduce them myself to put with the car. Thanx for the help. Patrick Plenge
(Patrick's rod n trim, 419-564-6475 patricksrodntrim@yahoo.com )
Patrick: I'm sending this email to Jim Miller, our Society of Land Speed Racing Historians President. I will also put your request in next week's issue of our newsletter, along with your photographs. Your reproduction looks great.
0616 jpeg:   Patrick Plenge's reproduction of an official's car at Bonneville in the 1950's, side view.
0613 jpeg:   Patrick Plenge's reproduction of an official's car at Bonneville in the 1950's, frontal view.

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I'm trying to locate Brett Johansen, the grandson of Howard Johansen who raced at Bonneville and the drags. Do you have an email address or telephone number for him?  Thanks, Mark Brinker mark@mbrinker.com
   Mark: From time to time I see the Johansen's at various events. Perhaps our readers have some information to share. Let me know if you want me to include your email address in the newsletter so that our readers can contact you.

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I just returned from the hospital after a month's stay and I don't have any Newsletters. Did I get accidentally get dropped from the list? I certainly hope not. Regards, Pat Geiger
Pat: I'm sorry to hear that you were in the hospital and hope you are doing well now. Do you mean the Land Speed Newsletter? If so, they don't come from me, but are sent out by www.landspeedracing.com, based in Boise, Idaho and I will direct a copy of this letter to them to see if for some reason you were dropped from the rolls. All you need to do is go to www.landspeedracing.com and sign in again. You can go to the site and read the issues on-line. I apologize for any inconvenience.

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The following video on Gymkhana racing was sent in by Don Garlits. It is similar to the XRL and drifting series. http://video.kenblockracing.com/flash/small_player/preloader.swf?vendor_id=204&media_id=9183&bgcolor=FFFFFF&autoplay=0

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Lenny Schaeffer's Chop-Shop Customs Newsletter is very interesting reading for hot rod builders with a link to other sites and especially to H.A.M.B. at http://www.jalopyjournal.com/. See www.chop-shopcustoms.com for Lenny Schaeffer's on-line newsletter. Lenny's shop is located in Massachusetts.

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This will be the last Prolong Twilight Cruise of the year at the Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum on Wednesday, December 3, 2008. In addition, the Gale Banks Engineering Exhibit opens at the museum. Admission to the cruise and Museum is free on this day, but we are holding a toy drive and would ask that all those coming bring an unwrapped toy or gift for the Inter-City Volunteers, a non-profit charity group in Pomona, California. The cruise starts at 4pm and ends at 8pm. Cars on exhibit must be pre 1970 and they will be judged by our celebrity judges. There will be food, raffles and a 50-50 drawing. The Twilight cruise is held on the first Wednesday of the month from April thru December. For more info, call 909-622-2133 or go to www.museum.nhra.com. The museum is located at 1101 W. McKinley Avenue, Bldg 3A, Pomona, California 91768. Monique Valadez

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Is there any way you could relay some info on the newsletter, I would like to subscribe. Thanks for all your help. Patrick Plenge
Patrick: The Society of Land Speed Racing Historians and its Newsletter is free. All that you have to do to get an emailed version of the newsletter is to go directly to www.landspeedracing.com and sign in. Or if you would prefer not to get the email once a week, but would just like to read all the newsletters on-line, you can do that by simply adding www.landspeedracing.com to your list of favorites and read the back issues. We take no ads, at this time, but we will announce whatever news is sent to us. So if you are looking for a car, or person, or are an artist, model builder, race car builder or have any other project in mind, send us your news. The purpose of the Society is to save our racing history and heritage. We would ask that you do your own biography and caption your photographs and then do the same for those around you. We are glad to publish all photographs and biographies submitted to us.

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Great article and photos in the NYTimes; http://travel.nytimes.com/2008/11/23/travel/23Cooder.html?th&emc=th. A "virgin's" perspective during a visit with a "salt of the earth" musician who is as crusty as the playa. Don't ignore the photo show. Speedy Regards, "LandSpeed" Louise Ann Noeth

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Maybe someone posted this already and I missed it, and I haven't seen it on landracing.com. Anyway, Leno makes a few paux-pas with pronunciation and history, but he clearly enjoys ogling the machinery and getting behind the wheel. There is also some footage of the Mormon Meteor on the salt. http://www.jaylenosgarage.com/video/video_player.shtml?vid=835982. Chris Pile Support Team.Net, http://www.team.net/donate.html, http://autox.team.net/mailman/listinfo/land-speed. Resent by Jack Underwood

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The release sent this morning, regarding early 2009 entry applications, contained an inaccurate hyperlink. Please use this link: www.pebblebeachconcours.net/pages/3008/entrant_info.htm, which will direct you to the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance website for additional entrant information. Jeff Green

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I am proud to announce that my book SPEEDSEEKERS has been finally published and released. It has been presented on the Frankfurt Book Fair 2008 and will soon be available in all good book stores! My dream has come true and I thank each of you who has supported me over these years and never lost faith in this project! Some people spend their entire lives in pursuit of the ultimate rush. Speedseekers leaves no doubt about why. Speedseekers is a dream come true. It all began for Alexandra Lier when she met David Perry at a truck stop near Bonneville. It was her first visit to Speed Week. A life-long obsession for fast cars, hot rods and customs was born. She's since honed her skills burning rubber with the best of them, meeting and photographing top mechanics, racers and adrenaline junkies from all over the world. All of it is captured here with extraordinary images taken on the salt flats and racetracks, and in the studios and garages of this fanatically passionate culture. Speedseekers is organized in five main chapters: History, Garage, Speed, Landspeed, and Style & Sound. Breathtaking archival photographs of legendary racers and race cars set the stage, a stunning suite of portraits of the protagonists in their private garages give the reader a rare glimpse behind the scenes. Contemporary images of today's racers and current record-holders with their wheels and their fans lend the whole book a riveting and authentic air. But it doesn't stop there. The whole world of the supporting cast is represented; customizers, painters and stripers, model builders, illustrators and tattoo artists, musicians and designers fill out this amazing collection of all things speedy. All of it told with the gear-banging prose of Kevin Thomson. Author: Alexandra Lier. Editor: Anika Heusermann Gingko Press. Release: December 2008. Price: € 39.90/$45. Format: 28 x 22. Features: 276 Pages, full cover, hardcover, silver printing. ISBN: 978-1-58423-314-5. See www.Amazon.com. Truly Yours, Alex Lier, www.speedseekers.de.

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We wanted to do something special for the 60th Speed Week, so we built a new motor, a Blown gas 426 Hemi is now under the hood. Here's the specs; a Hilborn 4 port inj., Mooneyham 6.71 blower (30% overdrive) and manifold, Indy 426-1 Legend heads, Mopar (World) cast iron block, Eagle crank and rods, Venolia 9:1 pistons, Isky roller cam, solid roller lifters, and springs, Hooker headers, Ed Pink oil pump, and pickup, stock pan modified to hold a couple more quarts of oil, Mallory Mag with Taylor wires. A hemi 4 speed is behind a McLeod dual disk clutch, and a Ford 9" in the back with coilovers, and a very stout 4 bar link suspension. We run the ERC A8C 118 octane racing gas, champion plugs, and Mobil 1 oil. We got two good runs for a best of 206 mph, at Speed Week.

Bonneville 2008 0091
0082 in the lights Nov 081

We had some tuning issues which held us back, but we'll be back next year to bump the existing 210 mph record, which is ours by the way, up to 221 mph, so we can get Phil into the 200 mph club. The 2 club has set a minimum of 220 for this class for entry into the club. Our sponsors are Fullerton Muffler, Gary's Radiator, Inland Transmission, Fullerton Diesel Electric, Yokohama tires, and lots of help from Monte at Mooneyham, Richard at Isky, Rick Cassel at 'The Hemi Connection,' Rick Gold at ERC racing gas, and Jim at Performance Forge and McLeod Clutches. Owner of the Salty 'Cuda is Jim Snyder, Driver is Phil Grisotti, Crew Chief is Chuck Schiebeck and many thanks to my wife Jeanne, my biggest fan. We run 'Salty' at El Mirage too. Here's a photo of the car going through the traps at El Mirage at just under 190mph, and one of the front end of the car. Jim Snyder
Bonneville 2008 009 Jpeg:   Jim Snyder's 2008 Salty 'Cuda at Bonneville.
0082 in the lights Nov 08 jpeg:   Jim Snyder's Salty 'Cuda going through the lights at El Mirage at the November 2008 Meet.

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