Timing Tags

[JackD]

Not gone or forgotten.
 Memories are too short.
The blue tad was issued by USFRA.
I set a record with them and never got one.

[RichFox]

I have an orange tag from a record at Muroc. I have a blue USFRA tag. I have 16 black tags laying here on the computer and one orange one that says Muroc attempt. No other blue ones but I can look in the glove box and tool box.

[Mark Gillette]

Rich, the "Old Man" says you should have some.  No idea what they do with them now but. from the time they were first issued (mid to late seventy's) until the last time he was a board member (1992), that's what they were used for.

Mark

[RichFox]

They look black to me. Maybe really dark blue. Say Hi to your dad for me.   RF

[Seldom Seen Slim]

I'm looking at six tags that I had here at my desk, all six of which say "Bonneville", some from '03, the rest from '04.

Four red ones, all with SpeedWeek dates (various years), all with speeds that were records.

Two blue ones, one SW, one WF, both with my top speed of the meet - NOT records.

There's my two cents worth.  Gotta go shovel -- we got ten or twelve inches of nice, wet snow last night.  Winter's coming pretty soon. . .

[LSR Mike]

My Black Tags say El Mirage on them. My Blue Tags say Bonneville. My Orange Tag says Muroc. I don't have any Red Tags (yet!).

Is this a RTFT thread?

Mike M.
#847 F/P/MP

[RichFox]

OK if I hold them at the correct angle to the light I can tell that the Bonneville tags are dark blue. Straight on they still look black to me.         But right is right and I'm wrong. They are blue.   RF

[don pennington]

After going through some of Bruce Geisler's, all the Bonneville tags he has are black, as are the El Mirage tags. These are all pre 1971. Also a question- when did the tags start being engraved. The early ones are hand stamped.