Well I have finally admitted to myself that at my age I will probably never get the small lakester built that I have been planing on for the last 10 years but I have been very fortunate to have been able to purchase, in partnership with my son, Duke, a very nice "I" class wing tank lakester that is extremely well built and has never been run. The car was originally built by Ralph Lindey and was first at Bonneville around 2002, plus or minus a couple of years. I was at the salt the very first time that Ralph had the car there and was very impressed with the quality of the construction. He had some problems with being able to see properly and had to abort it's only run at the salt the next time I saw the car was when a friend of mine, David Best, purchased it and as it turned out it proved not to be the car that Dave really wanted and as I said my son and I were able to purchase it from Dave. The present engine is a Kawasaki 900 cc Ninja of about 2000 heritage and has Kinsler constant flow injection set up for methanol, there is also a complete full 1000 cc engine for a spare. The car has full suspension and is quite long (24 1/2 feet!) and as you can see from the pics it has a narrow track, which is on the list for being changed! Our plan is to make some small changes that we fell will help performance and also make the car easier to work on then show up a Bonneville next year and beat it like a "rented mule"! Get my son licensed and find out the traits of the car so that the next year we can show up with a car that "may" be competitive with Stainless's car. At least that is the "plan"!
Rex