that scooter thing is saweet
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that scooter thing is saweet
I know Hans... There use to be a Classic Car Club back in 'ol Army days. Mostly muscle cars when everyone could still halfway afford them in the 93-97 days. He had a lot of cars...like a whole warehouse full of them down in Bastrop I think. He had a 9 sec small block camaro, some ratty crossfire injected corvette that would surprise a lot of people, a 3/4 70-72 checy LWB p/u w/ 400 BB and 4.56's! rackin some serious RPMS at 55mph. just a few that I recall...I think he inherited money from his Dad. I think he passed early on, maybe while he was in HS/college? and had a lot of property in Norway and a good life insurance policy..that was the story anyway...Is he married? I think his woman is one of my buddies ex's. Does she have a big snake tatted on her shoulder/neck?
6 degrees of Grayson.. :D He may remember my car I drove back then....Black 1959 Studebaker Lark HT...I think I blew up my axle racing him off Greens prairie road
he's married and recently had a son. his name is Thor or something equally Norwegian.
grayson, what was that guy's name who used to show up to the cruise nights in CS that had that nasty sounding amc?
John did you see any studebaker powered cars...there are usually a couple of Avantis out there...I know of one 304 ci avanti running EFI and 40 lbs of boost via twin turbos...makes about 1200hp...driver reported the tires breaking loose at 180+ mph causing him to have and ease in/out of the throttle. He averaged 223 mph. the next day he split his chilled water intercooler. I've alway thought this avanti was bad ass. note the exhaust dump in front of the wheel. this one set a new stock car record. it was running an original type ball drive paxton from the sixties to qualify for the class...I think it took him three years to break it....204 mph.
Here's a list of the Avanti records set in 1962 and 1963...hard to believe these speeds were reached back then in a stock Avanti...probably on bias ply tires too.
A Studebaker Avanti R-3 driven by Andy Granatelli at Bonneville shattered 29 U.S. records in 12 hours in 1962: American class "C" Flying Start; 1 mile—168.15 mph; 5 mile—167.82 mph; 10 mile—163.90. American class "C" Standing Start; 1 mile—92.03 mph; 5 mile 139.69; 10 mile—151.66 mph. All 29 records are the average speeds of a 2 way run, and are not the top speeds obtained. Granatelli came back that year with his R3 to score 170.78 mph, and broke five other Class C marks. Altogether twelve Studebakers smashed 337 different USAC records in six classes. Production R-1 models listed 0-60 mph times of about 10.5 seconds, the standing-start quarter-mile in 17.0 seconds at about 80 mph, and top speeds of 115-120 mph.
I've alway thought this avanti was bad ass. note the exhaust dump in front of the wheel. this one set a new stock car record. it was running an original type ball drive paxton from the sixties to qualify for the class...I think it took him three years to break it....204 mph.here's a link :
http://www.aoai.org/bonville.htm
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I've only talked to him a few times as he is in norway. He's got money somehow... He just bought 3 30's era cars. He used to own a rod shop near houston somewhere before he moved to norway. They wanted to raise their kids for few years in norway and then move back here.
I've never met his wife... I know she is from norway and came over here for college or something similar.
My neighbor down the street is a very good friend of his, and picks up all the cars he buys off of ebay, and stores them.
There old storage lot was in La Grange. He just bought a couple acres in anderson for that purpose.
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there was one guy that had a pacer and he trailered it out to where we raced on hwy 50. it had wheelie bars and 15" wide tires! Is this the guy...he was just some older dude from Bryan. We always met at a place across from Kroger. It use to be Redline Burger. We filled the Bank Parking lot and the burger joints....This was back when Hondas and anything w/ fewer than 8 cylinders was not cool...w/ the exception of a GN of course :gigem:
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me and karl went once or twice with weatherford/russel in his mustang.Quote:
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Once we couldnt find sandy point (or where ever it was they used to race) and once russel's vacuum pump took a shat.
The ricers used to set up in the kroger parking lot, and i of course felt the need to heckle them along with everyone else.
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search the classified section
An Avanti is on my list of (I'll never get around to) building. I think a Pro Touring Avanti with an LS-whatever motor would be the ****.
I've still got a bunch of pictures to add here but just been too busy to take the time.
Here's a Boeing Newsletter article about the guy that had the record we set.
http://www.boeing.com/news/frontiers...i_people1.html
:gigem: Good job, john
If I get a copy of the magazine will you autograph it?
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Congrats that is badass!
That's right folks, I still pray to the Northwest three times a day.
Trucks on salt
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Streamliners R cool
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345mph on 4 cylinders
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front wheel drive makes a lot of sense at Bonneville, when you spin the tires, it stays straight
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RWD, this guy spun at 220mph
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Videos! Click the link below the picture, then click the picture of the movie projector.
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number 11 is badass. the trailers are interesting. and the truck are way cool. how does 204 see, and whats his rear end tire setup? how about the trans in the front driver?
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i dont know what #11 is.
you dont need to see forward very much, just the black lines on either side of you. our rider never looked forward while making a pass. he kept his head tucked and looked down and right. the rear end is probably a narrowd 9" with skinnies.
im sure the front driver is just a normal drivetrain turned backwards with a flipped axle in the front. i dont know which end steers... but the rear doesnt appear to have any linkage on it.
and before grayson chimes in and talks about how unstable rear steer is, the Thrust SSC was rear steer.
my bad - i meant the video - #111 - the one of the engine running.
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Grayson is a fan of rear steer these days, it's Jerry that things its dumb. I think Jerry's dumb! :)
Remember this from page one?
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Well, how about this?
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Scott left the pit to head down to the starting line before we did. With a top speed of about 30 mph on the Z50, we caught up to him during the 3 mile drive. I held up my camera and said "Do a wheelie!"
Here's the video.
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im following flem's theory of making my board experience more pleasurable so i have no idea what you're talking about jimmy.
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You're right Jimmy!
I don't know if they were there shooting for American Hotrod or what, but these guys were doing low, slow passes over the race line.
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This is from the top of a mountain that lies between Wendover and the Salt Flats. It was right behind our motel and there was a narrow service road leading to a radio antennae at the top. It was a slightly hairy drive in a four door truck with a camper shell on the back. 4wd needed.
The first 12 seconds are sweeping over the Salt Flats in the distance.
At around 12 seconds, you can begin to see Wendover Airfield, where fighter and bomber crews trained during WWII. Mostly flying B-24's and P-47's. The large hanger in the center of the screen at 14 seconds is called the Enola Gay hanger. This is where the Enola Gay was stored. Somewhere on the airfield is the pit where mock-ups of the atomic bomb "Little Boy" were loaded onto the plane during training. The Enola Gay flew from Wendover to Guam, then on to Tinian Island in the Pacific where it would meet up with the USS Indianapolis which transported the actual bomb. The Indy would later be sunk by a Japanese submarine and many of her surviving crew would die as a result of shark attacks as they floated in the Pacific awaiting rescue. The Enola Gay would continue on to Hiroshima, Japan and smite our enemy.
At around 20 seconds you are looking down main street Wendover. The first high rise buildings you see in the distance are the state line. West Wendover, Nevada is full of casinos yet lacks even a Wal-Mart.
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Here is a model of the bomb loading pit in the airfield museum.
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Here is the hanger up close at sun set.
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This is the first run of our two necessary to set the record.
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i added screenshots to all the videos so you can tell what you are getting into before you wait for the download.
john, was there a lot of reaction to y'all's little weedeater bike? were people shocked at how it performed?
I looked at the area on a sat map just now, wow, i never realized how big the area is.
was that ford truck they used a big POS? it was smoking like it was hauling 15,000 lbs when it really was probably pushing 3k at the most.
that helicopter had the best view. it could actually see the cars at speed close up. did they get any video of the bike?
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Yeah, surprisingly much. Lots of people stopped by to see what we had and people in the next class up who are VERY serious about their record setting were impressed at the rookies I think. We saw the guy who's record we broke the morning we were backing it up and he seemed surprised. He told us his partially streamlined record was very hard to break and that we shouldnt even be attempting to break it. We came within 1.5-2 mph of it and with his aero fairing instead of the factory one we were running, we would have broken it.
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Speaking of which... I checked it out on Google Earth a while back.
Here's the mountain behind our motel looking towards the Salt Flats to the East. You can see the service road coming up the left (north) side of it. The red mark is where we were standing.
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Here is the view toward the Flats in Google Earth and real life from that same spot.
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and toward town
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