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Offline CGoodson

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Re: Old Bonneville Pictures
« Reply #735 on: September 26, 2009, 04:56:14 PM »
New picture but, old car. Kenz & Leslie's 777 Streamliner.
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Re: Old Bonneville Pictures
« Reply #736 on: September 26, 2009, 06:28:06 PM »
Quote from: CGoodson on September 26, 2009, 04:56:14 PM
New picture but, old car. Kenz & Leslie's 777 Streamliner.

Corey, welcome to the site, take a few more next time you visit Ron.
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Re: Old Bonneville Pictures
« Reply #737 on: September 26, 2009, 07:06:18 PM »
I'm going to Kenz ans Leslie's tomorrow to take Ron the oil sample from the the Lakester. That BG oil 0/30 and all of BG's additives are great products. Thanks for a great week at the salt!
Oh yea down 5lbs already.
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Re: Old Bonneville Pictures
« Reply #738 on: September 27, 2009, 07:41:10 AM »
Quote from: Richard Thomason on September 26, 2009, 12:32:41 PM
We were there with the Danny Boy at the July tune-up meet. Rick built some new body pieces to put the guy on top. He also built a new tail section for the bicycle guy (I think it was John Howard) could set a record with a peddle bike. Great fun all.

The Dutch bike guy (I think his name was Romplemeyer or something like that) had a cable with a release on the handlebars of the bike.  Rick towed him to speed and then the guy supposedly released the cable and pedaled to maintain the speed.  He had a window in the box fairing so he could see ahead.  Something went wrong, the guy went down.  He ended up in the hospital and sued Vesco.  A messy deal.  It doesn't seem like it was the 444 car however but an Indy car that Don had sitting around his shop that they put the box faring on.  They had a bike frame and rollers under the rear tire to practice in the pits and warm up before runs and I remember how hard that apparatus got used.  I think Rick would be happy to forget that whole fiasco.
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Re: Old Bonneville Pictures
« Reply #739 on: September 27, 2009, 08:10:23 AM »
When I saw that thing running it was the 444 car. Bike didn't go down that day
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« Reply #740 on: September 27, 2009, 07:42:42 PM »
I recently acquired some old postcards with Bonneville topics.  This is an example of some of them.  I wonder if anyone else has any of these?  Sorry about the poor quality of the picture as I got a lot of glare when I tried to take the shot.  A friend of mine is a postcard dealer and he locates these for me.  A couple of the cards have small packets of salt attached to them.  I thought they were interesting.

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Re: Old Bonneville Pictures
« Reply #741 on: September 27, 2009, 07:53:50 PM »
Wester, the guys name was Fred Rompellberg. But he came later. The Strasburgs modified a big block Chevrolet powered car for him. This was in the early 90's. The Vesco deal was quite a bit earlier I believe.
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Re: Old Bonneville Pictures
« Reply #742 on: September 27, 2009, 09:58:34 PM »
The run with the Vesco streamliner was with John Howard, here is a scan of the record in the Guiness Sports record book of 1987-88



I was not there, but was there with Freud when we saw the Lightning man display, really wild stuff.  The guy theorized that he could use ball lightning to contain a fusion reaction, or that is what my memory tells me.....

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Offline Buickguy3

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Re: Old Bonneville Pictures
« Reply #743 on: September 27, 2009, 10:51:37 PM »
Would the lightening guy have been Nicola Tesla? I believe I read in his biography that he did ball lightening experiments in the area.
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« Reply #744 on: September 27, 2009, 11:24:03 PM »
Lightning man was trying to replicate the work of Tesla in the area of ball lightning.  He said that the problem was getting the frequency high enough with the large amount of amperage need to make the ball lightning.  I went there with Don Vesco and we tried to help him with the switching at high frequency.  He was using the tips of a large circular saw blade to make the switching, but the blades would come apart at over 7,000 or so RPM.  We couldn't help him, it might be possible to make some high amperage, high frequency today with some monster solid state device, who knows.  We did see some wild stuff that night.   
Here is a link that DallasV added in his answer, it is the wild guy himself, the one we saw for sure.

http://webpages.charter.net/stcole59/hv/golka/golka.htm

All kinds of wild stuff happens at Bonneville!

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Offline Freud

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Re: Old Bonneville Pictures
« Reply #745 on: October 04, 2009, 12:01:37 AM »
Maybe this 1954 shot isn't too old. SCTA did the timing at Colton, CA. at that time on the drag strip.

The car, #58, was owned by Bert Leithold of Riverside and used a flathead Ford 6. Later it used a GMC and ran at Bonneville in 1955.

It held records for years at Colton, Pomona and Riverside.

Then it unfortunately fell under the ownership of Stan Beck and held a street roadster record at the mecca of speed, unless it is wet,

 B'ville.

The foto is from a personnel file in the records division of the Riverside County Sheriff's Office.

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Re: Old Bonneville Pictures
« Reply #746 on: October 05, 2009, 07:08:05 PM »
What year was this at ElMo?

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Re: Old Bonneville Pictures
« Reply #747 on: October 05, 2009, 08:11:28 PM »
58 :-D
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« Reply #748 on: October 05, 2009, 08:13:54 PM »
TODD, You nailed it.

You may even have been correct.

Was it legal for Al to race w/o a drivers license?

Looks like a single roll bar was acceptable.

FREUD

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Offline bvillercr

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Re: Old Bonneville Pictures
« Reply #749 on: October 06, 2009, 01:13:52 AM »
Lucky guess, saw the 56 in the background and took a shot.  Todd was close...Troy :cheers:
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