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Re: Ak Miller

To: "Doug Odom" <dlodom@charter.net>
Subject: Re: Ak Miller
From: "Thomas E. Bryant" <saltracer@awwwsome.com>
Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 12:57:36 -0800 (PST)
> Tom, One of my best memories of Ak was a few years ago at Bonneville. I
> had taken the rent a car and drove down to about the 4 1/2 mile early in
> the morning to hear the record run cars. Now I'm all by myself when this
> car comes up by me and Ak and Ray Brock get out. Ak says to me " so you
> know where to go to hear the real race car sound ". Now you must
> understand I was in Jr. High School when I was reading about Ak  in Hot
> Rod Mag. Racing in the Pan American road race. So he was a hero of mine
> for a long time. But to stand there  and listen to the cars go by, and
> Ak and Ray  talking about the sound each car made. Yep, that was a good
> morning.   Doug Odom in big ditch

Doug,

I made my first trip to Bonneville with Ak & Dr. Ostich. Not only did he
have vast knowledge about race cars to pass on, it was just fun to be
around Ak. He was quite a story teller and always had something amusing to
say.

Tom, Redding CA - #216 D/FCC




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