On the scene at World of Speed 2011

[Moxnix]

Noted.  We'll be in touch for next year when we get fancy.

[Tman]

Trent, I think they are running XXO/BGL

Thats what I thought, that is really pushing the bar higher!

[Stan Back]

Ray --

Concerning Peggy's Pickup -- was that front end available on El Caminos?

Stan

[Tman]

Ray --

Concerning Peggy's Pickup -- was that front end available on El Caminos?

Stan

I forget the model but do remember a special edition with the Laguna nose? Time to dig

[Gman]

The live feed is awesome.  Thanks Jon and all involved for your hard work.  Next best thing to being there. Thank you all.

[Woodstock]

The Laguna complete front end is interchangeable with the El Camino.  A buddy put a Pontiac complete nose on an El Camino several years ago.  GMC also produced their own version, Conquistador, I believe.  They're all designed on the same platform.  I don't remember the Laguna nose being offered as stock configuration, though.

[Glen]

Jon, is USFRA going to give you a print out of todays runs to post??

[Glen]

Enjoyed the live coverage on 1610 salt flats radio. Ron did a good job. Tomorrow will be a day with record runs and more qualifing.

[RayTheRat]

Ray --

Concerning Peggy's Pickup -- was that front end available on El Caminos?

Stan

Like TMan said, there was a special edition in 1975...I can't remember the name, either...that had the Laguna S-3 nose...sorta like they did with the Choo-Choo Custom Monte Carlo SS style noses in 84-88,  I put a Choo-Choo nose on my 80:



The attached photo describes my day:  Dick Milne and Marlo Treit (and Korey Bligh and Don Pierson and Chris Lindh) working on my Monte Carlo.  I'll write something up on what they did, but for now let it suffice to say that they overcame a ton of problems that would have had me going in circles for a long time.  I'm deeply grateful to all of them for their help...although Marlo said that he'd hoped to make a nickle on the deal so I gave him one. 

I still have a few things left to do on the car after tech, but they're minor.  I hope to run it tomorrow sometime.  The 130 Club drivers meeting is at 8 am.  I hope we can get it thru tech again right after that. 

I'll post a few more photos as well as a write-up of what went on with my car after I get a bite to eat.

[Seldom Seen Slim]

Thanks for all the comments, folks, and thanks, Glen, for reminding me to try to get a run list or something from USFRA.  I'll ask in the morning if they'll let me have one to post.

Thanks go to Moxnix for getting the audio up and running.  I had planned to operate it out of our pit trailer -- 'til when we picked it up at the race shop where we had left it after SpeedWeek.  The vandals had not just stolen the trailer wiring pigtail by cutting it off at the frame -- no, they cut it and shorted the ground and the 12VDC lead that takes juice from the truck -- to the deep cycle storage battery in the trailer.  So -- the short created enough heat while draining that battery -- that most of the trailer wiring is melted here and there and every danged place.  So -- gotta get the whole thing rewired before we can hit the road with it after Finals.  And in the meantime, Moxnix is running the system out of the front seat of his car.  Thanks go to him, folks.  If you happen to feel like offering a donation to the site for what we're trying to do - mark it with a note of how much I should give to him out of what you send.  Don't you worry -- he's getting some monetary thanks from landracing.com -- from Nancy and me as well as you racers out there in internet-land.

As for other stuff -- well, Nancy made a couple of runs today, the first right at 200 and the second, about 3PM when the course had gone a bit slick, at around 198,7 or so.  Ray the Rat, as he's already posted, is working on his 130 Club car.  And now you know why neither of us posted many photos.

There were about 10 vehicles in impound as we left the salt at the end of racing today.  Doug with the Salt Cat lakester (I heard 206 in the last mile, and I know the record had been in the 167 range), the BYU electric car, Fred Vance's APSF 1350 'Busa at about 231 on a 218 record, and so on.  Return runs start in the morning, Ron Christensen will have AM1610 on the air then, and we oughta have the streaming audio running, too -- so you might just be able to hear the record runs.

C  U  Later.

[Freud]

Easier to see...........

[Glen]

Tuesdays results are posted on the USFRA web site.

[Moxnix]

Sound check?

[4-barrel Mike]

Sounds good in Oregon!

Mike

[Moxnix]

Thanks.  I hear it, but until I know you hear it . . . .