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Re:was Origin of Chicago boxes now nickname the new "Toaster"

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Subject: Re:was Origin of Chicago boxes now nickname the new "Toaster"
From: greendot1@comcast.net
Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 15:13:29 +0000
That looks like what the Corvette Club of Michigan has had in our course design 
"book" for as long as I can remember (back to 1971). Called a 5 bucket box. It 
may or not be tight. Bucket being a local old time hard to kill off term for 
pylon.

Bruce Wentzel

Happy New Year all!!

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From: WattPhun@aol.com 

> In the NW region we have a small goup of autocrossers running up near the 
> canadian border in Blaine. They are not an SCCA club and therefore aren't 
>held 
> to SCCA standards. They came up with a variation on the chicago box and 
>dubbed 
> it the Mt.Baker Box or "Baker Box" named after of course one of the local 
> Volcanos up here. The design was so horrible (see tight) that it has lived in 
> infamy up here in the NW region to this day among local autocrossers. Here is 
> an example of the design. 
> 
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> entering from the direction of the bottom or top of the screen. 
> 
> Kevin Dietz 
> NWR 




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