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Texas Mile => Texas Mile General Chat => Topic started by: eps930 on April 11, 2009, 10:27:20 PM
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Have signed up for my first Texas Mile event in October and am curious to know if there is any Air evac or safety crew at the event. Any insurance coverage supplied by the track?
Thanks
Eldon P Slick - Tucson
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I have heard your name before. Did you used to Drag Race? Maybe in Top Alcohol Dragsters or Alcohol Funny Cars?
Tom G.
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Yes - "Back in the day" when it was affordable. Miss the focus, miss the ride, miss some of the people but sure don't miss all of the work it took for a 5 second lap.
Plan to meet up with a cousin of mine - Rolling Bones outfit - at Bonneville for my first taste of LSR in August.
Eldon
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Be sure to attend the Salt Talks, sponsored by this website... Sunday evening I think, if not someone will correct me... Free food, lively discussions, meet lots of folks and occasionally fireworks...
:cheers:
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Well, since you mention it -- yes, Salt Talks will be Sunday, the 9th of August, at the end of racing for the day. We'll provide hamburgers and hot dogs and pasties and various condiments, and pop in a few flavors. If you want beer or other alcoholic beverages -- bring your own. We'll have t-shirts and bumper stickers and the newest landracing.com merchandise (which isn't here yet so I won't talk about it) for sale.
Salt Talks is paid for by your donations both during the year and at the event. There will be something like 250 - 300 people there. We'll do some kind of 50/50 drawing and a "raffle", too. If you've got team shirts or other stuff you'd like to donate to the site for the raffle -- hey, we'd love to have it. Find Nancy or me at our pit or as we're working (I inspect bikes, Nancy works in the sales trailer) and hand it over, along with maybe a note reminding us just where it came from.
Salt Talks is now about the biggest social event at SpeedWeek, started a bunch of years ago by the guy that founded this site -- Jon Amo -- and taken over, mostly, by Nancy and me about 6 years ago. Now we're doing it all by ourselves - well, along with a big handful of helper volunteers. Freud sells 50/50 tickets (we sell 'em for him at the Reunion in Portland, he returns the favor at Salt Talks), Cathy Shannon and Ellen Wilkinson are stationed at the grills, Gus and his dad help with lots of chores, and so on. It's a blast, and best of all -- you'll get to socialize with many of the folks that are on this Forum - that you never get to see in person except at Bonneville, and then everyone's too busy with the race vehicle to shoot the breeze.
Final words: There will be no lie detector at Salt Talks this year, so you're welcome to tell everyone how fast you used to go, or how fast you're going to go as soon as you get the tune-up right.
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Now Jon, how the hell do you expect Noonan to tell the truth without a teleprompter to keep him honest while hustling products and doing the auction. :evil:
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I'm hoping to find a little portable PA speaker - thingie so we can save his overworked vocal cords. As for him telling the truth -- I guess it might be like a lawyer.
How do you tell when a lawyer is lying? When he's moving his lips. Now I don't have any reason to disrespect John Noonan, but he is an easy target in this case. You brought him into the conversation, Glen.
We sure look forward to seeing you and John and Stainless and everyone else. Salt Talks is four months from TONIGHT!
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See I had to persuade Michelle to stay at the get together at the end of the road last year, after she sees this my position atop the truck will have since been retired..maybe we can get Glen atop the the truck to hawk your wares? :cheers:
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Well now if John retires what you need to do is fly Al the starter out there! Trust me when I tell you he's a top notch amateur auctioneer! Did I ever tell you about the leather ladies skirt he wiggled into just for the sake of the sale? :-o :-D
I KNOW there's a picture laying around someplace....
Debbie
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NO,NO,NO, not me. I have to save my soothing voice to announce speeds and those that. Never mind, I could get in trouble telling some one who's still looking for a turn out road at the seven mile if they pull the chute they could have turned out two miles back. :-D