- 21. tires (score: 1)
- Author: Jimwprice@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2005 22:34:43 EDT
- If you were using a highway tire at a LSR meet, would you use a "Dry" tire, or an "All Season" tire. "Y" tires are rated at 186 MPH.
- /html/land-speed/2005-06/msg00044.html (6,384 bytes)
- 22. Got Salt? (score: 1)
- Author: Jimwprice@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 13:39:28 EDT
- I heard that the Got Salt? lakester was sold to a Boulder City, Nevada trucker. Does any one know anything about this? A description of the lakester would help also.
- /html/land-speed/2005-04/msg00140.html (6,252 bytes)
- 23. Towing on a budget (score: 1)
- Author: Jimwprice@aol.com
- Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2005 12:46:58 EST
- The main aid to towing on a low budget is an equal mix of optimism, lots of luck and more ignorance. In 58 my partner Mel Loros and I towed a Chrysler powered 42 ford coupe, a very heavy trailer, fou
- /html/land-speed/2005-01/msg00186.html (6,656 bytes)
- 24. Driving a race car to the salt. (score: 1)
- Author: Jimwprice@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 20:11:45 EDT
- Does any one know if another car has driven as far as the 553 Roadster did this year to set a record over 200? They drove from Pomona, California, To the salt, which MapQuests out to 606 miles minus
- /html/land-speed/2004-10/msg00186.html (7,661 bytes)
- 25. Back from Bonneville (score: 1)
- Author: Jimwprice@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 00:49:34 EDT
- I got back to Las Vegas after a 12 hour trip on a 7 hour dial in. The slow ET was due to a blown trailer tire 36 miles south of Wendover and driving very slowly to successfully nurse the marginal spa
- /html/land-speed/2004-08/msg00198.html (6,451 bytes)
- 26. Motor in Airflow (score: 1)
- Author: Jimwprice@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 00:08:29 EDT
- Return-Path: <jimwprice@cox.net> Received: from rly-yg01.mx.aol.com (rly-yg01.mail.aol.com [172.18.180.97]) by air-yg01.mail.aol.com (v101_r1.3) with ESMTP id MAILINYG11-26541296c8639e; Mon, 23 Aug 2
- /html/land-speed/2004-08/msg00226.html (7,483 bytes)
- 27. Pollywog (score: 1)
- Author: Jimwprice@aol.com
- Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2004 20:06:17 EDT
- I read some old correspondence between Bob Summers and Noel Black who was getting information to assist in building his liner in April 1968. Noel asked Bob about the Pollywog handling and Bob said th
- /html/land-speed/2004-07/msg00360.html (7,164 bytes)
- 28. Pollywog (score: 1)
- Author: Jimwprice@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 22:38:04 EDT
- I finally found Bob Summers actual quote from his letter to Nolan Black in What was the Pollywog car handling characteristics? The single engine car was unstable at speeds up to 200 MPH due to inadeq
- /html/land-speed/2004-07/msg00379.html (6,979 bytes)
- 29. Arivett? (score: 1)
- Author: Jimwprice@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 13:49:00 EDT
- It better not be for sale! It has been purchased by a Las Vegas Doctor and is locked up in my back yard.
- /html/land-speed/2004-05/msg00185.html (6,194 bytes)
- 30. WSMR (score: 1)
- Author: Jimwprice@aol.com
- Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 21:12:32 EST
- I would like to have a plan B for Bonneville, preferably under the auspices of the SCTA. The Lakes are great, but for me to race there would take too many changes and take too long to get dialed in f
- /html/land-speed/2006-12/msg00161.html (6,222 bytes)
- 31. What I have been doing. (score: 1)
- Author: Jimwprice@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 12:37:11 EST
- I have just finished modifying my lathe so that I can use it as a milling machine when I need to and am getting ready to install the new quick change in my truck.
- /html/land-speed/2007-01/msg00044.html (6,258 bytes)
- 32. Re: SW Rooms (score: 1)
- Author: Jimwprice@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 11:09:11 EST
- I called the Best Western-Salt Flat Inn, and the clerk seemed to be sincere and helpful. He says that they aren't taking res' until May the first and that the claim of all of the other Motels to be s
- /html/land-speed/2007-01/msg00182.html (7,092 bytes)
- 33. Room rates. (score: 1)
- Author: Jimwprice@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 10:32:58 EST
- Guaranteed true story. About three years ago my partner Bruce Ream and his wife arrived unannounced at, I believe, then the Stateline casino in a rented car with Utah plates and were given a rate of
- /html/land-speed/2007-01/msg00266.html (6,431 bytes)
- 34. Plumbing Mayf's hose (score: 1)
- Author: Jimwprice@aol.com
- Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 21:06:26 EST
- Pt seems to me that the way rule 3.I reads, screw type clamps must be used on braided hose and doesn't mention AN fittings. This rule must be more ignored than the 55 speed limit. Who puts a hose cla
- /html/land-speed/2007-01/msg00401.html (6,430 bytes)
- 35. Re: [Land-speed] Scale LSR Brits do it again (score: 1)
- Author: Jimwprice@aol.com
- Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2007 10:02:40 EDT
- The scale land speed contest video was much more interesting than it had any right to be. _______________________________________________ Land-speed mailing list http://autox.team.net/mailman/listinf
- /html/land-speed/2007-07/msg00002.html (6,482 bytes)
- 36. Re: [Land-speed] OT: Green House Gases.. and an Electrolysis (score: 1)
- Author: Jimwprice@aol.com
- Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2007 19:04:37 EDT
- Please, please, please. Keep the politics somewhere else. This is supposed to be an LSR site. _______________________________________________ Land-speed mailing list http://autox.team.net/mailman/lis
- /html/land-speed/2007-07/msg00109.html (8,932 bytes)
- 37. [Land-speed] Salt (score: 1)
- Author: Jimwprice@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 12:29:34 EDT
- I heard that the only water is for about 100 yards from where the road stops and the salt begins. It is then a bit slushy but the pits should be OK. It is supposed to be drying rapidly. This from Pet
- /html/land-speed/2007-08/msg00036.html (6,652 bytes)
- 38. [Land-speed] Hypothetical toe in query (score: 1)
- Author: Jimwprice@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 13:22:03 EDT
- Has anyone ever run, or heard of running, 5/16" toe in, on purpose, in an LSR car? ** Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL at http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour _______________________________
- /html/land-speed/2007-08/msg00201.html (7,356 bytes)
- 39. Re: [Land-speed] Driving skills (score: 1)
- Author: Jimwprice@aol.com
- Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 12:54:49 EDT
- I quit driving in the late fifties. Even youth was no substitute for skill. I spun at the drags, the lakes and Bonneville. Not only that but other drivers were invariably at least five miles an hour
- /html/land-speed/2007-08/msg00232.html (8,236 bytes)
- 40. Re: [Land-speed] Brake Master Cylinder (score: 1)
- Author: Jimwprice@aol.com
- Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 21:02:51 EDT
- Pete Prentice used the brakes on the 500 car at times while at full throttle to get the car to hook up with the track . I don't know if he did it at the salt or just at Mirage. He still holds the El
- /html/land-speed/2007-08/msg00262.html (7,019 bytes)
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