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Offline Glen

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« on: September 16, 2011, 12:13:07 PM »
Long time Bonneville and lakes racer Doug King passed away yesterday

Also Lee Burkey passed away yesterday member of the 200 club.

May they rest in peace/ God Speed racers.
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« Reply #1 on: September 16, 2011, 01:09:03 PM »
RIP fellow racers and 200 club members...

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« Reply #2 on: September 16, 2011, 01:31:50 PM »
Ellen Guthrie sent this obituary day before yesterday:


THE VILLAGES, Fla. (AP) - Betty Skelton Erde, an auto racing pioneer who was once the fastest woman on Earth, has died. She was 85.

Erde began as a female stunt pilot as a teenager in the 1940s.

She achieved dozens of firsts: the auto industry's first female test driver in 1954; the first woman to set a world land speed record in 1956 (145 mph at Daytona Beach); and the world's land speed record for women in 1965, hitting 315.72 mph at Bonneville, Utah. She was inducted into the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America.

Erde flew planes into her 70s. When she was 82, she drove around her retirement community in a red Corvette.

She died Aug. 31 in The Villages, the central Florida city where she lived with her husband, Allan Erde.
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Re: Passings
« Reply #3 on: September 16, 2011, 02:50:22 PM »

Long time Bonneville and lakes racer Doug King passed away yesterday


Sorry to hear of Doug's passing. My Condolences to his family. RIP and Godspeed Doug.

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« Reply #4 on: September 21, 2011, 10:57:46 AM »
Godspeed all, our history makers are getting older every day, take the time and opportunity, if presented, to talk with them, the stories are incredible.
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« Reply #5 on: September 21, 2011, 11:15:45 AM »
I was hoping to be able to chat with you soon Stainless....!!

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« Reply #6 on: September 22, 2011, 06:54:12 PM »
  Soon he will be changing his name to Rusty................... :-D
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