Aren't you also handicapped by receding boundaries on the salt flats? I
think that I heard that somewhere!
Robert D.
> Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
> Albert Einstein
-----Original Message-----
From: Keith Turk <kturk@ala.net>
To: Ajhsys@aol.com <Ajhsys@aol.com>; spridgets@autox.team.net
<spridgets@autox.team.net>
Date: October 13, 1999 3:37 PM
Subject: Re: Fastest MG
>It is so hard for me to explain to someone who hasn't been there just how
>big that Number is.... 254mph on the salt is way past COOKING!
>
>This environment isn't user friendly... and those old records like that
>were set by Brilliant men going faster then they had a right to with the
>technology of the day...
>
>needless to say I am in awe of their ability.... Hell I am using semi late
>model technology and I can't get past two bills on the salt yet. Which has
>more to do with coefficients of Drag then anything... When I build the
>Bugeye it will have less then half of the current frontal area of the
>Camaro... and that's the key to going fast. Small Car / big Horsepower/
>and a rather large Jock strap = SPEED.
>
>Just my thoughts...
>
>Keith Turk (ECTA 200mph club life member)
>Austin Healey 100, Bugeye, Box sprites, Bonneville Camaro ( Land Speed
>Racer)
>----------
>> From: Ajhsys@aol.com
>> To: spridgets@autox.team.net
>> Subject: Fastest MG
>> Date: Wednesday, October 13, 1999 10:27 AM
>>
>> Those of you who are also on the MGs list probably saw this, but it
>> is worth forwarding. It was posted by Kim Tonry of the NAMGBR.
>> Maybe Kieth Turk could rebadge his car as an MG!
>>
>> Allen Hefner
>> SCCA Philly Region Rally Steward
>> '77 Midget
>> '92 Mitsubishi Expo LRV Sport
>>
>> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
>>
>> "I meant to post this 10 days ago but didn't get to it.
>>
>> 40 years ago, on October 2, 1959, Phil Hill set the record for the
>fastest MG
>> ever in EX 181 at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. Mr. Hill's speed of
>> 254.91mph still stands today as the fastest MG on record. The Syd Enever
>> designed EX 181 streamlined car, also known as the "Roaring Raindrop",
>still
>> exists today and is on display at the British Motor Industry Heritage
>Trust
>> Museum at Gaydon.
>>
>> Kim Tonry
>> Downers Grove, IL, USA"
>
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