Ron
If you think were nuts on this list, try www.landracing.com tonight, the nuts
really go bananas except Keith. He's beyond nuts and still looking for the lost
zee bar.
Glen
Ron Keller wrote:
> Hi everyone!
> As a very recent newcomer to this list, I have been sitting back and
> reading all these ridiculous emails, with great enthusiasum.
> BUT NOW!...after reading all this "stuff" about mounting a body
> backwards..."just to make a darn car go faster"...I realized something!
> HELL! YOU GUYS ARE AS CRAZY AS ME! HONEY I'M HOME...lol!
> ...(BUT that's jus' MY opinion!)
> Y'all have a good night, you car-"NUTS"!...Ron Keller
>
> >From: FastmetalBDF@aol.com
> >Reply-To: FastmetalBDF@aol.com
> >To: Want1937hd@aol.com, land-speed@autox.team.net
> >Subject: WRONGWAY BODIES ALREADY DISCUSSED HERE
> >Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 16:32:35 EST
> >
> >:
> >Subj: BACKASSWARDS ? THAT HAS BEEN DONE !!!
> >Date: 11/30/00 5:12:14 PM Pacific Standard Time
> >From: FastmetalBDF
> >To: jdincau@qnet.com, land-speed@autox.team.net
> >
> >
> >
> > Jim, You said you can' t mount a roadster body backwards for
> >streamlining .
> >I am sure that is very true ...... nowadays ! However, this HAS been
> >done !!!
> > Some years ago, I saw an article on the dry lakes, and there, big as
> >life,
> >was a photo of a ' 29 roadster with the body actually mounted BACKWARDS !
> > This was a meet in the post war years, or early Fifties, and I think
> >it might have been sanctioned by either Russetta, or Cal - Neva , and the
> >car looked ridiculously stupid, as you can imagine, and the caption under
> >the
> >pic mused about what length would these ( crazy ) hot rodders go to .......
> >to make their race car go faster .......
> > As dumb as it looked, it might have made that oddball ride a wee bit
> >faster,
> >and I wonder if anyone else on the list ever actually saw this car at the
> >lakes ?
> > This would have been a REAL head turner ....... and ran LONG before
> >drag racing' s backward bodied " Back Up Pickup ", and the name of the fun
> >loving team that ran it must have settled into the dust of that dry lake
> >many
> >moons ago . We won' t see another like it ever run ....... but as they
> >say
> >nowadays ........ somebody has " Been there ..... Done that "
> >Truth is stranger than fiction / There' s nothing new under the sun /
> > They said it couldn' t be done
> > Bruce
> >
>
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