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SOCIETY OF LAND SPEED RACING HISTORIANS
NEWSLETTER 112 - May 21, 2009
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:
 President's Corner, Editorials, Faith Granger - who is filming the hot rod movie Deuce of Spades - needs a few volunteers, I wanted to give you a heads up about a book signing, Ron Main started Main Attractions and Hot Rod Memories Video and then sold the business to Ron Martinez several years ago, This is a difficult time of year for us - It was 14 years ago on May 7 1995 that Sonny Arnett left us, Editor: The following letter is a request to find Bill Stroppe, Rooting through the box I discovered five Gas-Up Souvenir wine glasses, May El Mirage Race Report, I have been a member of the Sidewinders Car Club for many years and my father was a proud lifetime member of the Sidewinders, Thank you - Larry Bauska was one of my old Navy Buddies from the early 1970's - William Stroppe, George Callaway has informed me that Warren Bullis was not the one who gave away my dad's car number and it looks like I owe him an apology,There are new posts at golden Hawk

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President's Corner:  
   The first S.C.T.A. meet of the year is now history. It took place last weekend at our shrine, El Mirage dry lake. It was also the first meet when everybody had to pay to get on the lakebed. Seems the last meet of last year was also going by these rules too, but there weren't enough passes for everybody so the BLM threw their hands in the air. Not this year. It's kinda sad that someplace dry lakes racers put on the map (the Western Timing Association was the first group of racers to use the place), dragged a road to, and made famous is where we now have to pay to play. To add insult to injury the BLM also takes a percentage of everything the S.C.T.A. sells as well as charging them for a permit to use the place. A sad commentary on our times and a thing called progress. It kinda reminds me of FDR's days. Pave a road, build a visitors center then charge you to pay for the employees to take your money for coming to a place that was free the year before. Detect anything wrong with this picture? While on the subject of beating them up we should probably thank them. You may or may not know that they have put a fence around the whole lake bed. In the past people who didn't like the idea of us car folks using the place would drag objects across the lakebed when it was muddy and put ruts across our racing area or do a series of donuts with the same results. Nice. With the fence came gates and padlocks. When it rains and the lake gets wet the BLM now locks the place up to keep the idiots off. It's probably the only upside so we have to be grateful for progress. You probably aren't aware of this either, but the BLM still doesn't own all the land they've fenced in. Sound familiar?
   I mention all this because the citizens of California get to go to the polls and stop the state, and hopefully the Feds from taking even more from us and cutting into our racing budgets with all their proposed tax hikes. Meanwhile back on the lake, for the last couple of years the first meet of the year features two days of racing. We go up on Friday to set up the place and start inspecting cars. We did more than 70 inspections on Friday. We had perfect weather. Mother Nature reared her head a little after 10 AM Saturday with a thing called wind that stopped us from running. By about mid-day we had checked a bunch more cars and bikes and were up to 150 inspections. By the way, that's more vehicles than were showing up at B-ville a couple of decades ago so you could say LSR is alive and well. Meanwhile the wind had calmed down enough for us to run again but we had another problem. Our ambulance was used to transport some dune-buggy types to the hospital after they did a no-no. The first days running was called to a halt around three. We still had about 34 vehicles to run to complete the first round and make it an official meet so management was sweating a few bullets. Three cars had come to impound for record certification, but one was booted for having incorrect paperwork. Oh, well. Fast time for Saturday was Freddy Dannenfelzer at 252.257. The track was not the best as he wore out a set of oh-to-much-money Mickey Thompson tires on the run with a thing called wheel spin the whole length of the track.
   The track was moved for the next morning, the El Mirage 200 MPH Club (the Dirty Two) had their annual meeting and everybody ate and drank like kings. Then it was time to wander around and crash all the other parties going on within walking distance. Needless to say a great time was had by all. Sunday morning was perfect again and the racing got underway right on time. By the end of the day everybody had a chance to run three times. 294 runs were completed with the Hahn Mustang being the only spinner. Freddy ended up with top time of the meet with his Saturday run and eighty something Nick Nicolaides was fastest on a motorcycle at 217.534 mph. In total, four bikes and four cars (with one each pending) set records. Maybe the bad track or the 103 degree weather had something to do with this. It was a blast. I even took my camera to shoot some pix for you but as usual it never made it out of the car as all I do is run around and goof off. Check out the S.C.T.A. website for all the entry details and speeds to the thousandth. This week Dan Warner and I are going up to the Bay Area to check out some new cars being constructed for Bonneville Speedweek that's just around the corner again. The interest and participation in Land Speed Racing is booming so why don't you attend a meet and really get hooked like all us fools.

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Editorial: 
   I've received two phone calls concerning the rumor that the Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum is about to close. To be honest, I have avoided doing the investigative reporting necessary to finding out the merits of the case. As our president, Jim Miller points out, speculation is a waste of time and effort when there is so much else to do in saving our history and heritage. Where speculation is not a wasted effort is when we have only so many facts from the past and we have to tie them together in a theory as to what happened and why. The car blogs are rife with speculation about one topic or another and Jim is right, we can spend our entire lives fretting about things that may or may not come to pass. This much is known; The Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum in Pomona, California is a crown jewel in the motorsports world. It ranks right up there with the Don Garlits museum in Florida, the Petersen Automotive museum in Los Angeles and the Nethercutt museum in Sylmar, California. There are other fine museums, such as the Justice Brothers Automotive museum in Duarte and the San Diego Automotive Museum which are also excellent museums. In addition, there are private collections around the country. Whenever we lose a first class facility, private or public, it hurts the hot rodding community.
   One of the reasons that we formed the Society of Land Speed Racing Historians was to use our collective minds to locate and make contact with these museums and offer our help and assistance. We realized that a museum is a place where we could send our collections and that this would be a safe place for our history. Museums also offer us a chance to meet and hold events, such as reunions and car shows. I take my family and friends to the Motorsports museum at least once a year. The SCTA clubs and board often use the museums to hold their banquets, gatherings and meetings. The Cal-Rod Car club uses the Motorsports museum for many purposes, especially for the monthly Twi-light car cruises held on the first Wednesday of the month. Another fact that is known is that museums are very expensive to operate and need major and minor sponsors, including the public. The heating and cooling bills reach into the five figures each month. The Auto Club of Southern California is a major Sponsor, as is the NHRA itself, but to justify the expense of sponsorship the museum needs to have walk through traffic and encourage lots of elementary and high school students to see the place. The sponsors are loath to pay out large sums of money if their message isn't being heard. In this economy every dollar is important and so we must show our support by letting the sponsors know that we want to use the museums and that our groups are actively participating in their programs.
   I don't want to make this column into a guessing game. I don't know the answer and it's not an issue that Jim or I will pursue, until we are given a public announcement one way or the other. The purpose of this editorial is simply to reiterate that if we want something then we have to work to keep it. It could be a race track, dragstrip, museum, car show, dry lake meet or any other event that we enjoy. We have lost too many race tracks to other interests simply because too few stood up to fight for what they believed in. It's been said by many people that auto racers and fans are passionate about their sports, but unwilling to get into the public arena and duke it out with those opposed to auto racing and the car culture. I remember several conversations with Don Edwards, a boat racing champion from Solvang, California. He told me that car and boat racers would rather walk away from politics, because "all we are concerned with is racing, not arguing." He has a good point. How can racers do well in their sports when they are faced with constant attacks on their sports by environmental, government and other anti-racing groups. Thankfully, we do have major groups who fight for our interests, like SEMA, NHRA, NASCAR and others. But sometimes it seems like that is not enough. We need to fight as individuals as well. We need to shop at stores that support our interests. We need to vote for politicians who agree with our views. We need to engage in debates with those who oppose us. But most importantly, we need to support those who support us.

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Faith Granger, who is filming the hot rod movie Deuce of Spades, needs a few volunteers to help her finish shooting the movie by the end of June. She is located in North Los Angeles County. The film crew varies, but includes a cameraman, grip, and assistants. Experience helps, but Faith will train. The movie is only filmed on weekends. Contact me if you can help and I will pass your phone number on to Faith.

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I wanted to give you a heads up about a book signing. You may already know about the book, “Harrell Engines and Racing Equipment Jim (White) Harrell and Nick Harrell”. It was written by Roger, Richard and Alec Harrell. I just got done reading the book, it really captured the era, the creativity, the focus and the longevity of Jim and Nick's passion for building race car engines and their love for drag racing. Roger Harrell recently sent me some information about a book signing in Burbank on May 30, 2009. I thought I would pass along the information to you. If you think your readers may be interested the information is below. Thank you, Susan Foshee
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A THIRTY YEAR JOURNEY THROUGH HOT RODDING”, at AUTOBOOKS-AEROBOOKS, 3524 W. Magnolia Blvd., Burbank, CA 91505. 818-845-0707. The signing is on May 30, 2009 between 10am-2pm. ISBN: 1439225753. ISBN-13: 978-1439225752. Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.4, Trade Paperback: 154 pages. Authors: Roger H. Harrell, professor emeritus, California State University, Northridge, lives in Hermosa Beach, California; Richard C. Harrell, retired drag racer, lives outside Cedar City, Utah; Alec R. Harrell Carlson, docent at the Automobile Driving Museum in El Segundo, CA., and a young "Old School Hot Rodder," lives in Hermosa Beach, California. Richard and Roger are Jim and Nick Harrell's nephews, and Alec is their great grandnephew. The book and additional information about it are also available at: www.HarrellEnginesHotRodding.com.

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Ron Main started Main Attractions and Hot Rod Memories Video and then sold the business to Ron Martinez several years ago. The website is located at http://www.hotrodmemories.com/catalogue.php?Format=DVD. Martinez is often found at hot rod shows like the Grand National Roadster Show, the California Hot Rod Reunion, the L.A. Roadster Show and other large hot rod events. He has a wide variety of old movies that show the early hot rodding culture and movies that we often went to the Drive-Ins to watch with our significant other. I sometimes go to the website simply to listen to the old songs that are played.

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This is a difficult time of year for us. It was 14 years ago, on May 7, 1995, that Sonny Arnett left us. Thank you for the answer about Pete Dean and clarifying another memory in mom and dad's history. Judy is now living back in Southern California with or near her daughter. I would like to get a hold of Wendy Jeffries, and find the write ups in the Bonneville news about the Bandits and dad. Dad is at Lakeside Special Care, 11962 Woodside Avenue, Lakeside, California 92040. Phone 619-561-1222. Will write you more later, Jackie Arnett Sonka
   Jackie: We miss your brother as well. He was a very hard working and dedicated land speed racer who rejuvenated the Bean Bandits club. It would be nice to have a biography for Sonny. If you would like me to help you I will send you a guideline to follow. Our readers who are interested can send a card or letter to Joaquin at the address listed, or call and speak to Joaquin.

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(Editor: The following letter is a request to find Bill Stroppe)
Howdy Bill, we were in the Navy together at Miramar, North of San Diego. We both loved the old style Bronco. Once we were out at El Centro, you had a Bronco that was your father's and we ran all over the place. I rode back to San Diego with you in it. You lived with Gary Faris and his wife Kathy. This was just north of Miramar at Poway. I had a Datsun pickup called the "Little Hustler." Gary Faris died about two years ago. He had lung cancer very bad. He had one removed, but they did not get it all. We went to Mexicali one evening when we were on detachment at El Central. I remember you had a rare Ford Torino. I have told several people over the years about the fun we had in the desert with the Bronco. I think the first one you had out there would not go into 4 wheel drive. You went back to your dad's shop and brought another one back. What made me start thinking of you was I saw the show "Wrecks to Riches," with Bryon White. He was building a Mercury like the one Parnelli drove. If you have a chance, give me an email. Larry Bauska
Larry: I'm the editor of the newsletter that you wrote to. I sent an email off to Bill Stroppe with your contact information.
Readers: Bill Stroppe is the son of Bill Stroppe Senior and you can find more history on this racing family at http://www.stroppe.com/. My father and Ak Miller were close friends with Bill Stroppe Sr, who worked for Ford Motor Company's racing division. His name will forever be linked to Fords, the Mexican Road Race and the early dry lakes.

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While paring down my junk I decided to give a neighbor a bunch of glassware for a yard sale she is planning for the near future. Rooting through the box I discovered five Gas-Up Souvenir wine glasses. The quantities are as follows:
One dated 1993 (First Gas-Up)
Two dated 1994
One dated 1995
One dated 1996
If anyone on the list would like to have them, and they don't mind driving to Rosemead, California they can have them. This is okay for you to post the E-mail address for the interested parties. Bob Falcon, [email protected]
Bob: Thank you for this notice and I will let the readers know by the next issue of the SLSRH Newsletter.

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May El Mirage Race Report. Hi All, This is our 2 day season opener with inspections starting on Friday. Friday morning was very pleasant with inspections starting around 10 AM. There were 150 entrants according to the SCTA web site and about 17 from LSR which is probably a record for our club. As the day progressed a breeze out of the North picked up speed along with a lot of dust--plus it's hot. We finished inspections around 5:30pm and it was still windy. Off to town for some grub and a well deserved shower at the motel. On Saturday morning the alarm clock went off at O:Too Early and we're off to the races with a stop for inter-cooler ice and a quick McSomething or other in order to make the drivers meeting. The dust was hanging on the lake bed like the London fog, but not to worry because our North breeze returns to clear the dust from our West to East track. We had a starting number of 35 and things were going pretty smoothly. Steve took the first ride and turned a 156+ mph. Not a record, but good points. By the time we got back to the pits the wind is blowing pretty good shutting us down from time to time and eventually having to call it a day before the first round was complete. The course was moved for the next day and we did a course walk to clear it of debris, a big enemy of racing tires. We're off to our annual LSR Bar BQ at the SCTA storage building put on by fellow club member John Jennings. Great job John! Sunday morning was a little better for us and we stopped for a real breakfast since we had to wait for the first round to finish up. The weather started out about the same as Saturday, hanging dust, then the slight cross course breeze. We prepped the truck and waited for our turn for our group to be called up. My turn for a ride and a very nice ride it was turning in an almost identical time as Steve. This was our third 100 degree day. Enough racing for us so we loaded up the truck and watched a few more runs. Eventually 3 rounds were in the books. Thanks to John, Terry and Carole for their help this weekend. A big thank you to all the dedicated SCTA volunteers. These are pretty horrific working conditions. The Sidewinders did a fantastic job with their new pre-stage procedure which made the lines move smoothly. We are very thankful for a safe weekend for all the racers. See you all in June.    Jim Dunn
  Jim: Thank you for the report. Send us more reports. Jim Miller said that you had to stop racing because some nudniks in a dune buggy turned over and the SCTA had to use their ambulence to transport the people to the hospital. All the racers who didn't get a chance to race should tote up their expenses and have my son the lawyer, press a case in court against the dune buggyists for damages. Perhaps when they get the bill for tens of thousands of dollars that they caused to all of you, future dune buggers would think twice about doing dangerous stunts. Just a suggestion. More than one meet was cancelled by irresponsible and immature people. 

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I have been a member of the Sidewinders Car Club for many years and my father was a proud lifetime member of the Sidewinders. I have only the best feelings about the SCTA officials and what they are doing and have done for lakes racing over the years. I have firsthand knowledge of not being "one of the boys" in almost every racing association that I have run in. It happened in my first year at the Indy 500, when my car was pushing so bad I was running 181.8 and the only tires I got from Goodyear were scuffs. I ended up missing the show by about 1mph. I was hired on a Monday by Smokey Yunick to change tires on his car and he said his car was pushing so bad; but he was glad that Goodyear came up with softer front tires that allowed him to pick up an extra 4 mph. That's right, he gets new gumballs but the kid from California gets somebody's take-offs. Although the next year I got all the good tires and I qualified 13th fastest and was the fastest rookie at Indy. In NASCAR I won 2 Busch races and ran a few cup races, but when I went to Daytona everything changed. When I rolled in they said, "What are you doing here BOY?" They looked at my car and told me all I needed was to change my battery hold-down bolt from a 5/16 to a 3/8. I said I will change it right now. But he said he would be right back. Well 2 days later he shows back up and said, "I see you fixed her BOY!" It left me with about 20 minutes of practice and of course I missed the show. Not a member of their club. It happened again at Phoenix when I was driving a silver crown car in USAC and when I rolled in they wanted to know if I was going to join USAC again. I once had a chief mechanics and a FIA grade A drivers license at the same time and I know my licensing fees were well over 1000 dollars. I told Mike Devin I didn't want to join, all I wanted to do was run on a TP, or a Temporary Permit, which only cost $50 instead of $500. He looked at me funny and walked off. In our Qualifying race I was running 2nd with 2 laps to go and I was black flagged. They said I was leaking oil. They quit scoring after 1 lap so I pulled in and guess what, my car was bone dry. I was not a member! I also entered our Don Long top fuel car at the MILLION DOLLAR DRAG race that paid 1 million to the winner. This was a sand drag race at Glen Helen. We had low et on Friday. It was obvious the left lane was about 3 tenths quicker than the right. It was single runs to qualify on Saturday. We had low et on Friday and were in line first on Saturday and because it was going to be single runs only, we wanted to make sure that were going to be able to run in the left lane, but when we pulled up they made us run in the right lane. Everybody else was allowed to make their single runs in the left lane. We missed the show because we didn't belong to their association. We ended up having low et in both lanes but were on the trailer. I have 3 or 4 more times that not belonging to the ruling party made all the difference! That is why after belonging to the SCTA for over 30 some years you would think that they would accord us a little consideration in this whole deal. I apologize for rambling on about this. And I'm not real comfortable with a private e-mail being published as making waves is not a good idea unless we are going surfing! But it has happened many times before so it might be better in the long run to get another number. I don't want to ruffle any more feathers than I already have. I have great respect for everybody that works for SCTA and I don't want them thinking otherwise. Billy Scott
Billy: My father, brother and I have over 70 years in the SCTA and I can truthfully say that speaking up and listening is one of the better characteristics that you find in this organization. Are the SCTA officials, who are all non-professionals and volunteers, stubborn and gruff at times? Not one of them would say otherwise, but they do respect the opinions and feelings of fellow members, even if they take a few months before admitting it. Or in my brother's case they tell him that his ideas are lousy, then they tell me, "Your kid brother is on the right track and in a few more years we'll probably tell him that he was right all along." The SCTA is stubbornly traditional and that's why my father, brother and I love this group. But in the early 1950's that stubbornness and unwillingness to change caused my father to leave and start the NHRA and the SCTA almost didn't survive the changing trends. In fact, the 1950's and '60's were very lean years for the SCTA and they survived mainly because they picked up members from Russetta, Bell and other Timing Associations that went out of business. Because SCTA boards stay much the same for years and years, it seems like they don't make any changes and that they don't listen. But they do make changes. It's only that they take their time in changing, for the traditional way of doing things have served the SCTA well over the years and they won't tinker with the programs and rules that have proven successful. Your email found its way onto the internet, but don't worry, the SCTA takes a lot of abuse and frankly, I think that they like it that way. I would like you to write your biography and that of your father's for our LSR biography project. Below is a guideline to use and I will edit it for you.
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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?

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Thank you, Larry Bauska was one of my old Navy Buddies from the early 1970's. I appreciate you passing this on to me. William Stroppe
http://www.stroppe.com
William: You're welcome. If you have a chance please check out our newsletter on www.landspeedracing.com. Our whole interest is in saving and preserving our racing heritage and history. My dad thought the world of your father. Bill Stroppe Sr was one of the most respected builder/mechanic/owner in auto racing. He once told me there was none better at putting a car together for a race than Bill Stroppe Sr. Please compile your family's unique racing history and share it with us. I have a guideline that you can use and I will help you edit it, then we will publish it on our websites. We also encourage everyone to caption their photographs, for uncaptioned photos are nearly worthless.

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George Callaway has informed me that Warren Bullis was not the one who gave away my dad's car number and it looks like I owe him an apology. I don't want my respect for Warren and all the other members of the SCTA to be disparaged by one e-mail. As far as a biography goes that you have asked me to write, I will try and list a few things that I have done. I have raced in so many associations and so many cars that it would take a long time to remember and write down everything. I think some of my accomplishments are listed in Wikipedia. But it is just an overview, not a complete description. My father has also received many awards for his accomplishments and I don't want to take away from his accomplishments. My dad did all this while raising two kids and running a successful business, Scotty's Muffler, at the same time. I pursued a professional racing career and have been racing competitively my whole life and have been fortunate to drive for many car owners in all kinds of cars. I started out in quarter midgets and was on the winning team that won the first 500 lap quarter midget race in Hemet, California. I was the western dirt track champion in 1957, track champion at the National Orange Show on several occasions, and won the Tulsa Nationals in 1960 (car craft) and received an oil derrick style trophy. I also won the Pogetto Memorial at Pomona, a race that they still run to this day. I have kept some of the trophies from some of the more than 200 main event victories and donated over a hundred of them to the local schools to award to their students for various accomplishments. I was the 1967 AHRA world champion in top gas in 1967. I drove the Freight Train for John Peters and won at Bakersfield. I was the first 16 year old to run 200 mph in a top fuel car. I have driven a top fuel and a gas dragster at the same meet in the 1960's and won top gas at the HOT ROD Magazine meet at Riverside.
Some of the tracks that I raced at and won included Fontana, San Fernando, Irwindale, Lions, San Antonio, Green Valley, Epping, St Louis, Columbus, Gary, Oswego and other tracks. I won seven weeks in a row at Lions drag strip. The inducted me into the Drag Racing Magazine Hall of Fame and my drag racing helmet is on display at the Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum in Pomona, California. I also raced in NASCAR, USAC, CART, CRA, NARC, All Pro, Can Am, supermodifieds, Stock cars, Silver Crown, Winged sprint cars and a Formula car at the Questor Gran Prix at Ontario. I was the fastest rookie at the 1976 Indy 500. I raced in the SCTA for many years setting records in my #96 car, including having the fastest roadster ever to run at El Mirage at 243 mph, a record that was only broken last year although the aa/bfr record still stands. I held the overall track record at the Texas Mile and it stood for a few years and was finally broken by a jet car. I was fortunate enough to have raced at many different tracks and in a variety of cars and have only been hurt once and that happened at Lions drag strip when I went off the end of the track and broke my back in 6 places. I still have an important project that I wanted to do last year, but has been put off till this year and that is to spread my dads ashes at Bonneville. My dad ran a car at the first Bonneville time trials in 1949 and his car broke a milestone record that many were trying to break and that was the elusive 200 mph barrier. His car was the first open wheel car to run 200 at Bonneville in 1953 and his was the 4th car to make it into the 200 mph club. He did this against such competition as the Vic Edelbrock car, the So-Cal Speed Shop lakester and others. I can start to write a similar biography for my dad, as he was one of the true pioneers of hot rodding and it would be nice to have it archived. Billy Scott
Billy: I'm sending you the guideline and instructions and look forward to helping you finish the biography for you and your father.

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There are new posts at www.goldenhawk.ca (or click) http://goldenhawkproject.blogspot.com/  Randy

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