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« Reply #2835 on: August 08, 2012, 05:29:14 AM »
Travel safe guys.
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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #2836 on: August 10, 2012, 10:52:57 PM »
bit of rain and a lot of wind wind today seen some good.stuff and of course.met some great people,ate brekky with Seth and fast Freddy,lunch with Freud at the Flats cafe,having beers with the Colonel,happy times :cheers:
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« Reply #2837 on: August 10, 2012, 10:57:49 PM »
Wow. Enjoy. I am very, very jealous.

Hopefully next year...

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« Reply #2838 on: August 10, 2012, 11:21:06 PM »
There we sat, Nancy and I, about to dig into our breakfast - and who walks in but the Famed (note the capital letter) Dr. G?  Walks to our table, chats at/with us for a few minutes, and then up and leaves for even fairer tablemates (so he says, I doubt he could do much better).  Thanks for the visit, James, and we won't tell the rest of your countrymen what you told us about them :roll:.
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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #2839 on: August 10, 2012, 11:37:41 PM »
Dr. G gave me an upside down tour of Bonneville and then we had lunch.

I still need more than an hour to get my Friday post done and then I must

get it to Ray to be posted. So be patient. It was a heavy day. The car was taken out

of the trailer and parked under the tent but not lowered to the ground. At least

some people saw it to their amazement.  It will be on display after the drivers meeting

on Saturday.

So do your Saturday chores and check back. I'll try to have another post in the next few days.

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« Reply #2840 on: August 10, 2012, 11:39:30 PM »
Its a beautiful thing.

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« Reply #2841 on: August 11, 2012, 11:35:50 PM »
the pictures don't do it justice
and i thought Ferd would be taller
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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #2842 on: August 12, 2012, 10:09:08 AM »
Gogs, the engine block is at Slim's pit, either in the trailer or the back of my vehicle.  Plus a package from M. Midget that you might do well to pick up ASAP and the block any time.
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« Reply #2843 on: August 12, 2012, 06:52:02 PM »
BIG thanks to Chris, Max and Gogs for making this (block thing) happen, I really do wish I was there to help you enjoy speedweek even more!

Hadn't bothered you guys before now, as Max has been flat out with the (excellent) webcast, top work Max!

Has Marilyn been down the Bonneville salt yet?

Many thanks  :cheers:

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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #2844 on: August 14, 2012, 08:25:50 AM »
Hi all,ripping through it at a furious pace here,yesterday was interesting  ......

Jeff Brock and Buddy  are impound and we're trying to get a story sorted within days,

I cant write to save myself on this phone.

more soon .....
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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #2845 on: August 14, 2012, 09:38:49 AM »
Should any of our Down Under brethren caught this morning's pre racing prep, they may have recognized the music of Dr. Goggles, his self same self.  He having donated a CD to the audio library for which we are grateful.

Said music was previewed three times in the mobile studio yesterday evening, once at high volume as the studio rolled down the main drag through West Wendover from Smith's parking lot.  If God made better music than Goggles and Milwaukee Midget's to play  on the salt flats, he kept it for himself.  Muchly appreciated . . .
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« Reply #2846 on: August 14, 2012, 11:35:07 AM »
Should any of our Down Under brethren caught this morning's pre racing prep, they may have recognized the music of Dr. Goggles, his self same self.  He having donated a CD to the audio library for which we are grateful.

Said music was previewed three times in the mobile studio yesterday evening, once at high volume as the studio rolled down the main drag through West Wendover from Smith's parking lot.  If God made better music than Goggles and Milwaukee Midget's to play  on the salt flats, he kept it for himself.  Muchly appreciated . . .

For some time I have been wondering..........is it just me or are there a high proportion of profesional musicians who also do L.S.R.  ???
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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #2847 on: August 14, 2012, 12:32:51 PM »

For some time I have been wondering..........is it just me or are there a high proportion of profesional musicians who also do L.S.R.  ???


Define professional musician.

Ah HA!  Gotcha on THAT one!

But if you were to do a venn diagram of "players" and "racers", I suspect you'd find the intersecting set would be about the mode or mean of any other pair of oddball subcultures.
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Well, I guess we're making a LOT of progress . . .  :roll:

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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #2848 on: August 15, 2012, 01:30:01 AM »
Glad to have spent some time with you! Even the Scots were raving about that IPA :cheers: And whodathunk they had never had a decent hot dog? WTF? It looked like rabid dogs after they had their first bite! :-D

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Re: Australian Belly Tank
« Reply #2849 on: August 15, 2012, 07:47:52 AM »
the Monaro has run three times and spun twice
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