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Looks like a blast. Never been, saw the world's fastest indian, and ever since wanted to go at least once in this lifetime. I noticed a lot of the shots show salt on the cars. Does the salt blow around(like sand in a sand storm?) Good thing its dry! Rust my plague in life!

Bob,
Nice pics!!
This is really tragic.
Barry Bryant, 46, from Anderson, CA, lost his life on the long course while traveling over 200 mph.
Ken








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Originally Posted by stovens

Looks like a blast. Never been, saw the world's fastest indian, and ever since wanted to go at least once in this lifetime. I noticed a lot of the shots show salt on the cars. Does the salt blow around(like sand in a sand storm?) Good thing its dry! Rust my plague in life!

heck you CAL guys do not know what rust is come to MI and i will show you rust

Originally Posted by stovens

........ I noticed a lot of the shots show salt on the cars. Does the salt blow around(like sand in a sand storm?) Good thing its dry! Rust my plague in life!

The salt retains moisture, part of what helps it compact to such a hard surface. There isn't any apparent salt "dust" in the air (though probably is at a microscopic level), but what gets thrown off the tires sticks to the cars. It's kinda funny, you go to THE grocery store in town and there're little piles of salt deposited in almost every parking space. They had truck loads of case bottled water backed up to their dock............not their first rodeo.

Originally Posted by Ken Thurm

Bob,
Nice pics!!
This is really tragic.
Barry Bryant, 46, from Anderson, CA, lost his life on the long course while traveling over 200 mph.
Ken

Yeah, quite the tragedy. We'd already gone back to the camp site and knew something was bad when the ambulance went screaming by sirens a blaring. It wasn't very long before they went screaming back by, so they made the best effort they could, but he expired on the ride to the hospital. His dad has been doing this for close to 50 years, and they've had that car for a number of years. It had a reputation for being very stable. The word at the track was that somehow a door blew open, pressurized the tail section, blew off the deck lid and the car went airborne. Wadded it up badly. I haven't had the heart to do any more info searching to see if there's more to the story. RIP.

Great pictures, Bob; thanks for posting them. They got my rememberer goin' pretty good; what a great collection of fine cars, so many in the "old style". That Lincoln took me back to my junior high school days ('53, '54, '55) in Temple City, California, when every day on the way to and from school, I passed the house of a Gent who ran a couple of Lincolns in the PanAm races . On some afternoons, the car(s) would be sitting out on the drive, and he might be working on one or the other, and there was always a few kids hangin' around, me included.

Neat pics thanks,Bob,Yes,there were a few Kiwis over there again this year.Not as many as last year,but expect another Kiwi explosion again next year...
Another Kiwi by the name of Noddy Watts was there taking photos too,got an almost identical pic of the hot rod Lincoln on our hot rod mag forum among the several dozen he took there..Hmm,one day...gotta few things to get done before we come up for a holiday..

Thanks for sharing the pictures, Bob. Only problem is now I really want to go too! I would like to make it before I get too old to drive to it myself. I know my wife won't go so maybe I can hook up with some of the local HAMB'ers who go almost every year. One can only hope.

I'd love to make it to Bonneville someday before I die, but it's a long trip. Maybe after I retire... Meantime, for those of us east of the Mississippi, here's a closer alternative. http://www.ecta-lsr.com/?page_id=69 I think the ECTA runs the same rules and classes as Bonneville.