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Thanks for the pix ........

I'm with Don ..... I went by it twice on motorcycle X-country trips & now I yern for the salt. I wanna go.

Don ........ Let's plan a trip in the future.

Ratty 46

What kind of tempatures when you were there?

Thanks for the pictures Bob! I always looked forward to the issue of HotRod when they showed the Bonneville activities, but you actually have more pictures!

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder

Originally Posted by uppster

What kind of tempatures when you were there?

Highs were around 90, though the reflection made it seem hotter. Evenings cooled down nicely.

Thats something I haven't ever done----after driving by so many interesting places while going to races or flying over them while I was still working, I want to go see and do them. I've often thought about getting our rear engine fueler back from Hawaii(they don't race there anymore) finding the front wheel fairings and taking it to the salt----with some of the near tech parts available I think we could do 400+ pretty easily---anyone interested???
Don't tell my wife while I still am keeping the trailer--she thinks its for moving somewhere with warmer winters!!!!!!!

Originally Posted by jerry clayton

Thats something I haven't ever done----after driving by so many interesting places while going to races or flying over them while I was still working, I want to go see and do them. I've often thought about getting our rear engine fueler back from Hawaii(they don't race there anymore) finding the front wheel fairings and taking it to the salt----with some of the near tech parts available I think we could do 400+ pretty easily---anyone interested???
Don't tell my wife while I still am keeping the trailer--she thinks its for moving somewhere with warmer winters!!!!!!!

Hey, the trailer scam works here, too!!!!!!

Get the old car, I hope to be ready in a couple years. We could have us a geezer drag racer reunion..... Lots of over the hill racers show up at B-Ville!!!!

The other big consideration is this..... At the geezer level, we probably don't get quite as much done as we used to when racing on a weekly schedule.... So, look at B-Ville this way; You go race for one week a year, then have another 51 weeks to make changes and do the race prep work!!!!! Way better schedule for us geezers then them loooooong days and nights every week just to keep the car competitive!!!!!!

but dry rot on the tires-----

Originally Posted by jerry clayton

Thats something I haven't ever done----after driving by so many interesting places while going to races or flying over them while I was still working, I want to go see and do them. I've often thought about getting our rear engine fueler back from Hawaii(they don't race there anymore) finding the front wheel fairings and taking it to the salt----with some of the near tech parts available I think we could do 400+ pretty easily---anyone interested???
Don't tell my wife while I still am keeping the trailer--she thinks its for moving somewhere with warmer winters!!!!!!!

let me know if i can help

Originally Posted by jerry clayton

but dry rot on the tires-----

yeah, but other then that it sounds like a heck of a good plan!!!!!!

any one has a body i have some engines a 632 donovan or 734 donovan i like to do some thing like that before they throw dirt on me

Pros and cons to the once a year deal, read about Ron Attebury's new car teething: http://atteburystreetrods.blogspot.com/

Interesting stuff.

Welcome back,
What camera were you using? My circa 1890 8X10 Rochester View would work for the stills but not for anything or anybody that moved. On a serious side; Were you there when the blue(black?) car with the 34 ford grill(the one just after the belly tanker) in your first post ran? If so do you remember the times? Anyway, really great pics.

Jack.

Jack, the larger format pics were done on a digital, Olympus Stylus 880. The smaller ones on Bubba's Nikon Coolpix something or other. The real challenge was framing. The glare was so bad you couldn't see the image in the lcd screen, so I ended up not zooming the lense and just doing some cropping on the editing program.

No, I didn't see the roadster/liner run, you might want to go to the SCTA site and see if they have any data posted. If you're going to the Tri-5 deal at XXX today I might see you there.

Nice pics.

Gotta respect that crowd, work all year on the car/motorcycle to make a few runs over the period of a week.

well i never been to b-ville but a freind of mine did build the rims for the GM SO CAL belly tanker with the ecotec . i drilled the fake knock off hubs for safty clips . so that just may be as close as i ever get