Thread: For the OLD TIMERS

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Awesome vid!

Yeah, that was cool!

That's a good 'un. Thanks. Good ol' Harper Lake; that was a haul in '38, take Highway 66 east to somewhere between Helendale and Barstow, then north on Harper Lake Road for about 15 miles, out in the middle of nowhere. In '68 - '69, when I was working out of Barstow, Harper Lake was covered in alfalfa fields. Out there on a cloudy night, turn off all the lights, and it's darker than the inside of a cow.

I only read about it to far west for a weekend

Thanks Charlie..... Man, I gotta take something out to Muroc one of these days..... It's on the Bucket List.

Very cool. Always wanted to go to Bonneville. Was there when I was real little. Not sure I remember it. Dad wanted to run there, and drive in the Indy 500. I remember mom telling me it was pouring rain when they came across the dessert on that trip. Dad woke her up to help him find the road. Dark and covered in water................

That's some really choice music and some neat pics. Glad you found that Charlie................ain't the internet a wonderment?

I've been wanting to go to the salt flats and am working on the adjenda----I want to run 300 in my Replica Cobra----(supposedly fastest anyone went was dick smith 198) nneed to do some things about qualifyiny to do that--there are ifferent steps you got to do for driver, crew, and of course vehicle--if I can get medical requirements, driver safty equipment, etc---I would like to go this fall to do the prelinary licensing runs for qualifyiny to go over 200---believe I could do that in my Firebird as it shouldn't take too much mods to pass tech----also maybe by then I can have some of the work done on the cobra motor so I can take it also and change it out to do some tuning