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Re: Old Bonneville Pictures
« Reply #255 on: January 27, 2009, 12:52:10 PM »
AJR192, you are clairvoyant.  CORRECT ALSO.

You probably searched all the years to find out when there was a full moon during Speed Week.

Bill Eppridge shot it at the same time as I did and it was in SPorts Illustrated.

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Re: Old Bonneville Pictures
« Reply #256 on: January 27, 2009, 01:10:19 PM »
Tom was to be the last run of the day and he broke the drive train. So they just pushed off to the side and waited for the tow rig.

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Re: Old Bonneville Pictures
« Reply #257 on: January 27, 2009, 02:30:12 PM »
I remember that year very well. I always look at when full moon is going to be before leaving for B-ville. I suppose if I were smart enough I could figure when the next one will be.

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Re: Old Bonneville Pictures
« Reply #258 on: January 27, 2009, 03:18:36 PM »

This year full moon is August 6th, 8:45 PM Mountain Daylight time.

There would be rooms available for that night so go a few days early and enjoy the foto op.

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Re: Old Bonneville Pictures
« Reply #259 on: January 27, 2009, 03:36:02 PM »
Shhhh....don't tell everybody, Freud!!  Then I have to share Land's End with a whole bunch of people!!!  It was supposed to be a secret!!   :roll:  Geez, some people!!   :evil:

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Re: Old Bonneville Pictures
« Reply #260 on: January 27, 2009, 03:40:26 PM »
Last year we camped at the bend the night of the 15th, full moon,it was spectacular. One of the crew kept waking up and mumbling turn the lights off. :cry:
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Re: Old Bonneville Pictures
« Reply #261 on: January 28, 2009, 05:23:31 PM »
Sparky U are right on the 150's got my brain mixed up with the 170's and 172's. Probably a 140 (I thinks it's 4 place) I don't thik it was a Pacer the underside side of the cowl doesn't look like one to me....Fun anyway you look at it..JD
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Re: Old Bonneville Pictures
« Reply #262 on: January 28, 2009, 07:39:15 PM »
140 is 2 place 170 fabric no flaps,  170 A fabric little flaps, and 170 B Metal big flaps..---you may be right about the cowl---JD it was fun -----airplanes my first love!!!!! grew out of it into greater insanity RACE CARS!!!!!!!!
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« Reply #263 on: January 29, 2009, 12:40:55 AM »
Seems like I am following Sparky's foot steps growing out of the airplanes into race cars = at our house now it's: Honey, I got rid of them fly toys now I need to get me one of them salt speed racers  :-D
From my experience  - Flaps on the 140 and 170 were a "nice accessory" and most often useless, unless you wanted to take off on a snow covered runway, accelerating to speed , then use the manual lever to set flaps  and "pop" it out of the snow.
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Re: Old Bonneville Pictures
« Reply #264 on: January 29, 2009, 11:10:13 PM »
Back to Fotos.  Iron Sportster.

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Re: Old Bonneville Pictures
« Reply #265 on: January 29, 2009, 11:47:14 PM »
Talk about POP, I have a lot of time in a 185 towing gliders--I loved those big ole Barn Doors---man those things could almost make you think you were superman , but then landing in a good crosswind removed all of those thoughs  :-D !!!!!  :cheers:
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Re: Old Bonneville Pictures
« Reply #266 on: January 30, 2009, 08:21:08 AM »
Sparky, you must post 2 old photos a day for 3 days as penalty for straying back off of the topic, get the scanner warmed up buddy...  :-o
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Re: Old Bonneville Pictures
« Reply #267 on: January 30, 2009, 09:03:42 AM »
While we wait for the penalty strokes, it has been cold around here so I got a little scanning done myself.

Who wants to see Competition Coupes?  Everyone,  :-D that's good

the last 2 are from 2 different years, 79 and 80 are my guesses
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Re: Old Bonneville Pictures
« Reply #268 on: February 02, 2009, 10:51:36 PM »
Here's a few more, the Bug Eye set the record in 79, sponsored by the Army Reserve, they came back in 80 with it looking better, and lost the record to Ben Jordan's Abarth Zagato by about 22 MPH.  Several funny stories associated with that, but must be told in person.

And a lakester with a wild set up, minor posting problem, I guess the lakester is first

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Re: Old Bonneville Pictures- Competition coupes
« Reply #269 on: February 03, 2009, 09:08:23 AM »
Stainless, the two photos of the Sorenson-West cars are 80's vintage.  After racing a variety of salt cars since 1951, that Firebird was the car that finally put Don West into the 2 Club in 1988 with a speed of 247.467.  Don and his son Marty pulled the car out and freshened it up when the Classic category was instigated.  Marty ran a record average 260.299 in 2002 and I believe his record still stands.  Marty was the starter for several of the first World of Speed events.

The bottom photo is likely the Camaro that Don put upside down at over 240 mph in the early 80's. 

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