Hey, hey, HEY! We've got a winner for the first-ever LSR History Video contest. Glen Barrett, as you may remember, chooses a specific vehicle from one of the many shown in Mark Brazeau's "Good Ol' Days" DVD. We post it, under the "History Quiz" button on the home page, and you folks are invited to view it and tell Glen (our judge) as much as you can about the vehicle -- driver/rider name, history of the car, eventual records set and held, sponsors, builders, and so on as far as you can.
Only four people submitted entries this time around. That's a disappointment - because one of the contest's raison d'Etre (reason for being there) is to help one and all work on learning some history of our sport/avocation. GTake your shots, ladies and gentlemen, offer some wild-a** guesses, try -- because your posts, whether right or wrong, can help all of us learn.
Okay - back to the first contest. The winner is one of our Forum "lurkers", but a guy that some of you might have heard of. The first place award - one of Mark's DVDs -- is Tom Burkland. Runner up is Jim Dincau -- and him you'll see on the Forum kinda regularly. Other entries were from Tom Bryant and Udo Horn.
I've asked Glen to find, if he can, a vehicle that's historic -- yet not too much so -- so that more folks will recognize it enough to risk the public ridicule (?) that they'd endure if they get it way the heck off base when offering responses. The next contest will run the same way as this first one. We'll post the video clip on the first of the month (April 1 - April Fool''s Day, no less) and let the entries roll in for a couple or three of weeks.
Ready or not, here we go again. Thanks for your continuing interest in land speed racing.
