And Miles & Main got yelled about a lot. It's part of having a roadster.
Rich Fox
-----Original Message-----
From: Marge and/or Dave Thomssen <mdthom@radiks.net>
To: Land-speed Racers <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Date: Thursday, May 31, 2001 03:56 PM
Subject: Street roadsters
>Group
>
>Street roadsters were always subject to interpretation. Back in the middle
>80's Clarence Everett, a famous flathead drag racer, held the flathead
>street roadster record. He told that tech was not going to let him run
>because it had fuel injection. Those were the days of tech inspection at
>the airport, so he said it was streetable and had his wife drive it from
the
>airport to the salt to prove his point. They let him run and he set the
>record that stood for many years until Flatfire. Clarence is gone now, but
>remains as one of the flathead heroes.
>
>Dave the Hayseed
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