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To: "LandSpeed Louise" <lanspeed@west.net>, <FastmetalBDF@aol.com>,
Subject: Re: Land Speed Races
From: "Butters Family" <bbutters@dmi.net>
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 10:57:19 -0800
         Louise, I am always willing to pray for another's needs, But their
is only one God, The God of mercy and Grace that came to earth as our
savior, Jesus Christ,   God Bless L. Kvach Butters
----- Original Message -----
From: LandSpeed Louise <lanspeed@west.net>
To: <FastmetalBDF@aol.com>; <lsr_man@yahoo.com>; <salt@ivic.net>;
<land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2000 12:41 AM
Subject: Re: Land Speed Races


> Whoa there speedsters . . .
>
> The Dry Lakes book does need to be done, but I have hit a hard wall with
the
> publisher over creative control and bounced off a berm regarding
> compensation for the effort.
>
> Thinking that I did a fairly good job with the Bonneville book, I believe
> that the same approach ought to be employed for the lakes book. Thus far,
> the publisher does not agree. We are still talking, but if we fail to
> resolve the issues then you may find another author on the cover.
>
> I want to author the Dry Lakes book. The money issue is important, but not
> as great a factor as the artistic license they propose to squelch. I
believe
> the reader is my boss, not a corporate formula.
>
> Ah me, once again bucking authority. It seems so perfectly natural and
> fitting for me to do so. Sigh.
>
> Say a prayer to the speed God you believe in . . . because God's problem
> child is up to her neck in it.
>
> Speedy Regards,
>
>
> LandSpeed Louise Ann Noeth
> Storyteller
>
> LandSpeed Productions
> Words / Pictures / Graphics / PR
> "Against the ruin of the world,
> there is only one defense -- the creative act!"
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <FastmetalBDF@aol.com>
> To: <lsr_man@yahoo.com>; <salt@ivic.net>; <land-speed@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2000 9:27 AM
> Subject: Re: Land Speed Races
>
>
> >         Hello  Dick ,  Wendy ,  and  list  :      I think it is of
> interest
> > to many of us
> > where most all of the locations of organized,  or sanctioned,  speed
> trials ,
> >  both
> > past and present ,  were,  and are, presently, held .    I ,  myself ,
> have
> > two
> > questions  -------  what / when  were  any events held in , or near
> > Moultrie, Georgia,
> > and what is the facility there ,  an  airfield, or old military air base
> ?
> >        Secondly,  when talking about earlier years of dry lakes racing ,
> it
> > seems
> > that most of the activities discussed are those of the  (  best known  )
> > sanctioning
> > body ,  the  SCTA  , our current group  --------  but in days gone by ,
> > there was
> > also the Russetta  organization ,  and another group ,  seldom mentioned
> in
> > recent
> > years ,  known as  Cal / Neva  .    I  have often wondered if this group
> > actually held
> > any events in  Nevada  -------  or only at  Muroc ,  El  Mirage ,
> Rosamond ,
> >  or
> > Harper's  dry lakes  ?    I  believe some of our  ( slightly )  older
> members
> > have
> > much knowledge on this earlier era ,  and  might be willing to share
some
> of
> > the
> > facts and details on these events with all here on this list  .
> Hopefully
> > ,  any
> > historical information forthcoming will also be readily stored in the
> files
> > of our own
> > "  Land  Speed  Louise  "  Noeth,  for use in her next ( ? )
ook  ------
> > the treatise
> > on the history of   DRY   LAKES   RACING   !        The space for that
one
> is
> > already
> > reserved on my " all  time  best  "  shelf ,  Louise  !
> >       Waiting to hear from some of you longtime left - coast  salt /
dirt
> > runners or
> > wrenches or spectators that ,  like me ,  are old enough to remember
> Pearl
> > Harbor
> >  --------  or wearing  knickers ( !!! ) to school  --------
> >      Bruce   F .       ---------  looking forward to meeting some of you
> at
> > El  Mirage
> >                                              in  May  .
> >
> >
> >
>
>


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