Re: grains of salt

["B.D. & Petei Zelazny" <unltd-ltd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

John, why don't you and Fred come out to Texas with your stop watches and time one
of my runs through Nine Points Mesa? We'd have some fun... Bring Don to "prepare"
the 164, and the GTV6, too. We can time both of `em!

I better start lookin' for a sponsor. Maybe Alfa Bill could start a fund raiser
for the event. All you ADers are invited to spectate. I'll even see if I can get
the local officials to close the road for a few hours. I mean, what the H3ll? They
law already knows how I drive around here...if only they could catch me at it!

I recently slammed down from 125 mph in a 70 zone in the GTV6 and got a warning. I
had a former sheriff's deputy  in the passenger seat.

`nardo "professional speeder?" zelazninni "I ain't foolin' around."

JHertzman@domain.elided wrote:

> 'Nardo responds to my account of the Fiat-backed 164 Bonneville run. Of his
> own 158 mph he says: "Also, I might add, that speed was not maintained for the
> length of time required to achieve a Bonneville record. What is it, 10 miles
> each way?"
>
> The year the 164 was there the FIA course was 11 miles start to finish, the
> short course seven miles. I believe the FIA traps is traditionally a measured
> mile. The short course, used by SCTA and USFRA, may have a shorter traps, I
> don't know. Seven miles is generous enough, when you consider the speeds
> reached on 1/4 mile dragstrips, and short-traps dragstrip timing has reached
> levels of precision which make the old stopwatch-timed mile a quaint relic of
> olden times.
>
> >> Also in question, the accuracy of the speedo-
>
> Well, yes, there is that.
>
> >> Maybe my mechanic is just better?  ;^ o
>
> Than Don Black? Probably. Il Fossile was, after all, only an east-coaster, and
> the stuff he learned about wrenching at Portello from those Chiti people was
> probably obsolescent.
>
> On another question, the "gurls are from Venus, boys are from Uranus" thread,
> if I am reading the Italian text correctly, that year a chick named Pat
> Zimmerman (purdy, too-) drove a two-liter fuel lakester prepared by Joy
> Summers to a class record of 200.355 mph. Think what she'd have been able to
> do with the right glands-
>
> Cordially
>
> John H., who would never doubt a Texan
> Raleigh, N.C.

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