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------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ President's Corner: By Jim Miller (1-818-846-5139) |
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Editorial: I recently received the following email and it makes an excellent topic for discussion. |
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Just heard from Dan Warner that long time Bonneville and El Mirage racer Paul Stanley passed away yesterday. Member of the El Mirage 200 mph club, and for many years president of the Sidewinder car club. God Speed Paul. From Glen Barrett |
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Scott Gordon Parks and his wife Stacy, are the proud parents of a baby boy, Brock Richard Parks, born at 6 am, July 23, 2008, at Hoag Hospital, in Newport Beach, California. He weighed in at 9 pounds and 21 1/2 inches and mother and baby are doing well. Scott, the eldest grandson of Wally Parks (a founding member of the Road Runners car club), is also the son of the editor. |
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 17th annual California Hot Rod Reunion, presented by the Automobile Club of Southern California. The event will be held October 10-12, 2008 at Auto Club Famoso Raceway in Bakersfield, California. Bill Groak, PCGCambell, 310-224-4940, [email protected] |
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ LandSpeed Louise sent in this website showing how drag racing is starting to take root in Poland. See http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/21/world/europe/21poland.html |
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2008 Legends of Ascot Reunion Special Guest Parnelli Jones. Honorees: Chuck Hulse, Carl Alleman, Ned Spath, Billy Boat, Louie Senter, Don Basile, Brad Noffsinger, and the Lifetime Achievement Award - The Gardner Family. USAC/CRA Sprint Car Racing. Admission to the USAC/CRA Sprint Car Races at the PAS on Event Day are included with your Legends of Ascot Event Ticket. October 18, 2008 at Perris Auto Speedway. The Vintage Racecar Registration included with your Event admission includes a Special Gift. Vintage Racecar Display. $50 per person before September 1, 2008, $60 per person after that date. Gift Bag includes Event Program, Lapel Pin, Raffle Tickets, Decals and more! Tickets will be available at the Registration Desk on Event Day and WILL NOT be mailed. Please reserve your Tickets early! PLEASE NOTE: Paid Attendance to the Event entitles you to display your vintage midget, sprint, or champ racecar racecar. Don Weaver |
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check Your Tires This is important! See http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=4826897. Marilyn Lachman |
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ We do have an Associate Membership which is a non-SCTA membership. We maintain a list of addresses of Alumni that have contacted us or who we have contacted. They are encouraged and invited to participate in all Road Runners activities. I like your Emeritus idea. I think I will bring that up for discussion at our next meeting. Jerry Cornelison |
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thanks (to Jerry Cornelison) for the offers. In '86 I joined the Rod Riders and raced with them until '91. From '91 to 2003 I freelanced putting my motors in other club cars. Now I am partnered with Dave Martin and am a member of the Super Fours. Somehow I managed to keep my name in the records book from '87 to 2007 and am still racing. But please keep me informed of your activities and I would like to contact old friends if they are still around. Pat O'Brian and Bob McClure in particular. Any member of any club can call on me for help at 760-243-9626. Vic Enyart. |
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The question that I have is, do you know if the NHRA still have the listings of the charter membership? I was on that list. At that time I lived in Washington D.C. and was a member of the TIMERS of Riverdale, Md. I'm just curious if this list still exists. It would be neat if they could find out if any of those people still are in hot rodding. Paul Hamilton |
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ There are new posts on the blog at www.goldenhawk.ca, (or click) http://goldenhawkproject.blogspot.com/. News Flash! It looks like the World finals meet in October will be as soon as we can be ready. As of 25 JULY 08, the website had 24,600 visits. Thanks for the support. |
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Steve Earle, founder of the Monterey Historic Automobile races will be honored by the American Auto Racing Writers and Broadcasters Association (AARWBA) on August 16, 2008. Gil Bouffard |
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ (In your newsletter you wrote) "of Ed Adams, Francis Luehm, Duke Hallock, George Wilson, Johnny Junkins, Dick Cannon and Harry Hess. We know almost nothing of these men besides, their names." Johnny Junkins: Only thing I remember about Junkins was that he and Tony Capana were good friends and in some form, business partners. When we were pretty young, in our teens (Early 50's), Dean Murray and I used to hang around Tony's shop (WilCap), on Avalon Blvd. in South LA. Johnny used to come in regularly to visit. Johnny was involved, I believe, to some extent as was Harry Duncan with the car Tony attempted to field in the 1958 Indy 500. That's the one that Dean and I were helping with until I got drafted into the army. Dean got to go with the group but the car didn't qualify. Jerry Unser was the driver that year and got killed, I think it was the next year, trying to qualify another car. Johnny was also involved with Tony or his Marmon V16 engine car that he ran back in the day. Most of Johnny's exploits were well before me, but I did know him from his visits to Tony's. Red Wilson was involved in the mix there, somewhere, also hence the name Wil (Wilson), Cap (Capana). Hell you probably already know all this stuff. Mike Waters |
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thanks much for all the kind words. Eric Rickman. Note Eric. It is last half of Frederic my Christened name. My mother didn't want me called Fred or Freddie. |
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Ralph Foster story is done, I just sent it in tonight. Roger Rohrdanz |
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Two new exhibit openings, including a tribute to NASCAR, and two Prolong Cruise Nights make the Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum, presented by Automobile Club of Southern California, the place to be in August. Here's a brief checklist of what's up in August:, - New exhibit: NASCAR: A Salute to 60 Years of Racing opens August 6 and runs through March 1, 2009. Authorized by NASCAR, exhibit will feature racing memorabilia and photos, along with a selection of race cars, including one of the most famous, Dale Earnhardt's 1998 #3 Chevy Monte Carlo courtesy of Schroeder Racing Products. Prolong Cruise Night, August 6: The first of two Cruise Nights in August. Hundreds of the coolest hot rods around will fill the Fairplex parking lot for the family-fun event. Runs from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. New exhibit: Trophy Queens, a photo exhibit honoring the glamour girls of racing, runs August 27 through August 2009. Included in the dozens of rare shots of models presenting racing trophies from the '50s through the '70s are images of a 19-year-old Raquel Tejada, later to become Raquel Welch and Barbara Huffman, i.e., Barbara Eden star of the long-running "I Dream of Jeanie TV show." Also highlighted is the most famous trophy queen of all, Linda Vaughn, known as the "First Lady of Motorsports." Prolong Cruise Night, August 27: Second Cruise Nights of the month. Special highlight here is that Pink's, the icon Hollywood hot dog stand, will be selling its famous dogs during the event. Pink's will also be at the November 5th Cruise Night. Runs from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. Other upcoming events at the Museum include this special event: Indian Motorcycle Day, honoring the 100th anniversary of Harley-Davidson racing, October 25, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Presented by Duke Video USA and Coker Tire this annual event features scores of vintage motorcycles, especially Indians. Plus, Sam Wheeler, owner/driver of the 355-mph E-Z-Hook motorcycle, will host a special seminar. Attendance free to those who bring a pre-1965 motorcycle. New exhibit: The 75th Anniversary of the Ford Model 40 goes from December 3rd to spring 2009. Exhibit, sponsored by Steve's Auto Restorations, highlights one of the most popular hot rod platforms around, the 1933-'34 Ford. Among the cars in the exhibit will be three of the most famous: the Billy F Gibbons' ZZ Top Eliminator, the Pierson Brother's Coupe and the Pete & Jake's California Kid. Also on display will be the Super Bell Coupe, Big Al and the Mooneyham & Sharp 554 car courtesy of the Don Garlits Museum of Drag Racing. Currently on display at the Parks Museum: "A Tribute to American Ingenuity, "honoring the 60th anniversary of Honest Charley Speed Shop as well as the 50th anniversary of Coker Tire through November 16th. Celebrating 60 Years of Hot Rod Magazine: through October 2008. Bakersfield: A Salute to the March Meet - 50 years of Racing: through August 2008. Bill Groak |
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------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Celebrating its 10th anniversary and named for the founder of the National Hot Rod Association, the Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum presented by the Automobile Club of Southern California houses the very roots of hot rodding. Scores of famous vehicles spanning American motorsports history are on display, including winning cars representing 50 years of drag racing, dry lakes and salt-flat racers, oval track challengers and exhibits describing their colorful backgrounds. The Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum is open Wednesday through Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., PST. Current NHRA members are admitted free and Auto Club members enjoy a $2 discount. Admission for non-members is $7 for adults, $5 for seniors 60 and older, $5 for juniors six through 15, and free for children under the age of five. The Museum is also available for special group tours. The Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum is located at Fairplex Gate 1, 1101 W. McKinley Ave. in Pomona. For further information on special exhibits, museum events or directions, call 909/622-2133 or http://museum.nhra.com. Bill Groak |
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I don't know if you are aware but, landracing.com has not printed an updated newsletter since #37. Dan Warner |
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------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dry Lakes Racers Australia http://www.dlra.org.au/. A Brief History of The Dry Lakes Racers Australia (DLRA), The first ten years, by Geoff G. Rea. "Over the years many hot rodders in Australia have followed with interest the American dry lake racing events, mainly those held at Bonneville (a salt lake located in the state of Utah) run by the Southern Californian Timing Association (S.C.T.A). In 1985 a group of hot rodders headed by Ted Robinette and Andy Jenkins had heard of Lake Tyrell in Victoria and decided it was worth checking this lake out as to it's suitability to run time trials on. Unfortunately this lake was not suitable for our racing purposes. But the ever resourceful Andy Jenkins was not deterred and over the following years he made it his objective to find a suitable lake to race on. Lake Gairdner in South Central South Australia had been mentioned in the press that a land speed record attempt would be made there by John Harkness and later by John Vevers (who did eventually run his streamlined motorcycle there), neither of these attempts were made at the time stated by the press of the day! With information about this lake and knowing that it was accessible Andy and Mike Davidson (who would; later become the founding President of the D.L.R.A) made a trip to the lake to determine whether it would be suitable. What they found on that exploratory trip was a salt lake that would prove to be as good if not better than any other similar lake in the world. Knowing that they had found a place where the fledgling D.L.R.A would be able to conduct events a date was set in March 1990 for the first meet, advertisements were placed in magazines and then it was a matter of seeing who would turn up to this inaugural event. Well for the amount of publicity and the lead time involved the event was quite successful, with some 25 people attending and around 8 or 9 cars running of these only 2 were purpose built race cars (Mike Davidsons historic racer and Rod Hadfileds '29 Ford roadster). Really enough can't be said for Mike Davidson's commitment to this first event, if not for him we may never have got there! |
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------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Many of you may know that our former cat was attacked, killed and eaten by a coyote. We all lose pets and I don't want anyone to feel like I'm anti-wild animal life, for that is not my intention. Wild animals have to live too. But this happened 40 miles from any wild areas in a series of cities with over 15 million people and it seemed rather preposterous to lose a pet to a wild animal. So I made a lot of calls and found out that our politicians and city managers are just as misled and unknowledgeable about wild animals in an urban environment as I was. The article that I wrote is at http://www.hotrodhotline.com/feature/guestcolumnists/richardscorner/. What I learned is astonishing. There are often more wild animals living in the cities per square mile than in the wild. I also learned that they can attack and kill a toddler in the time that you turn your back and become distracted by something else. The big trio is bees, snakes and insects, but coyotes, bears and mountain lions can kill and injure people as well. So read the article, then take precautions to protect your family, even more so in the cities than the country. |
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