Saw and heard you guys run, it looked great!! Not the slickest body around
but stinkin' fast!
Dave Seely
1141 XF/VOT
>
> This thread lands right in our back yard, and since I'm new to the
> list (Thanks to Karen Davis for pointing it out to me in the staging
> lanes at Bonneville)
> I thought I'd say hello.
>
> I'm Mike Siewert, one of a group of guys from Calgary who ran at
> Bonneville for our first time this month.
> Our car (truck?) number 1149 is a 1928 Ford roadster pick-up, during
> the registration process we got slotted as B/STR. Whether we belong in
> STR is beyond me, it was a dream come true for the bunch of us to run
> there though and no doubt we'll be back for many years to come. We had
> a wonderful time this year, and returned home intact after 10 runs and
> a best speed of 191. Needless to say we are all floating on clouds
> this week.
>
> The was a question raised among our group on the way home though. How
> can we find out about other roadster pickup's that may have run in
> years past? One of the guys suggested we might be close to having "the
> fastest roadster pickup around", but I don't know where (other than
> here) to start researching to find out if he's on the right track.
> It'd be a fun line to use while we fund raise for next year though.
>
> I don't know whether we're a roadster or a pick-up, but I do know
> we're having FUN!
>
> Thanks!
> Mike
> --
> Michael D. Siewert
> Technical Support Group, Department of Chemistry
> University of Calgary. Tel. (403) 220 7228
> http://www.ucalgary.ca/~mdsiewer/
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