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James Stewart is my name , any joke you care to make about the name will be gladly accepted as a PM , this forum is like a bar now if ya wanna fight ya gotta take it outside
so PM me all the Jimmy Stewart jokes......I know you old timers will have a few but I'll wash yer car if I haven't heard it>>>
I am a musician , a guitarist and songwriter ..it used to pay all my bills but I'm not so goodlooking anymore.., I have long been fascinated with cars , restored them , ruined them......got involved in the salt stuff because I just felt that so much other car stuff is kind of , well, meaningless..........I've done just about every job under the sun , delivered papers , picked fruit ,theatre teched in hospitals , animal anaesthetist , labourer ,ran a car resto gig for a while..worked in youth welfare now I work in the drug and alcohol treatment sector and ride a motorbike but I'm not a "bike guy".
I live in the suburb of Sunshine in Melbourne , Australia and no you can't get here by bus......but if any of you are passing by this way let me know......
I came across this forum a couple of years back courtesy of Hawkwind from the DLRA and have to thank Jon for all the work he does and everyone who's ever chipped in with advice for us.
Reverend Hedgash and I had started building our bellytank ( Build Diaries , Australian Bellytank) and we were desperate for information , this was more than we ever hoped for with helpful advice and some great entertaining writers and story tellers . The ebb and flow of various members has been a story in itself and in more ways than one seems to mimic the sport of land speed .
There are counterintuitive aspects to Land speed and this forum has saved a lot of people a lot of development time and money because as one of the great sages says
" don't make the same mistake the first time"...
I love everything about the salt , the characters ,the variety ...the fact that there's little point in "cheating"....I particularly like the oddball and lateral thinkers , sure I like a blown V8 but there is so much more .Burkland to Buddfab I like just about all of it....my favorite car was the Brown-Hooper bellytank from the early fifties....
I love the "give it their all " guys ( I guess I'm one) with the No budget , no money , No Worries! who see this as something incredibly important , because we all know ....it is.
so ,um ,how was the spelling Slim?