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141. Magazine article (score: 1)
Author: Wester S Potter <wspotter@jps.net>
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 06:23:11 -0800
The latest edition of Popular Mechanics or Mechanics Illustrated, I'm sorry but I'm not sure which, has an article on racing on the Bonneville Salt Flats with some nice pictures. First time in many
/html/land-speed/2000-12/msg00369.html (6,597 bytes)

142. Re: Keith in Miss Kathy's Kitchen (score: 1)
Author: Wester S Potter <wspotter@jps.net>
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 09:08:17 -0800
Yeah but she had his mother and sister there too to run interference for her. She does travel with him ... by air ... they flew back to L. A. last March. You'll notice that she didn't drive back to
/html/land-speed/2000-12/msg00473.html (16,231 bytes)

143. Re: Bonneville (score: 1)
Author: Wester S Potter <wspotter@jps.net>
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 07:53:28 -0800
From the best calculations, 73 million tons. That's the amount of "surplus" salt which is left over from the potash "recovery" operations. The restoration project model proposes a million five hundr
/html/land-speed/2000-12/msg00504.html (7,650 bytes)

144. Re: representation.. (score: 1)
Author: Wester S Potter <wspotter@jps.net>
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 09:08:22 -0800
Just don't get that salt dust in your eyes. (just found a chunk in my driveway off the truck ... and I have been under it thre times to wash out those pesky litle bits.) Wes
/html/land-speed/2000-12/msg00571.html (10,310 bytes)

145. Re: A QUOTE WE MIGHT ALL CONSIDER (score: 1)
Author: Wester S Potter <wspotter@jps.net>
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 06:16:32 -0800
Isn't that quote from "Stranger in a Strange Land?" Seems a strangely appropriate source. Wes
/html/land-speed/2000-12/msg00667.html (8,085 bytes)

146. Re: Salt Flats are DRY (score: 1)
Author: Wester S Potter <wspotter@jps.net>
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 07:42:00 -0800
List members and concerned racers, The following is my opinion. The heading "Salt Flats are Dry" should send chills up the spine of everyone who cares about the Bonneville Salt Flats. Thanks to Cris
/html/land-speed/2000-12/msg00669.html (11,281 bytes)

147. Re: Salt Flats are DRY (score: 1)
Author: Wester S Potter <wspotter@jps.net>
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 09:57:37 -0800
I think the important thing is for or voices/opinions to be on record as wanting the Save the Salt project to continue. We need to contact the people involved directly and keep them at the project,
/html/land-speed/2000-12/msg00673.html (13,517 bytes)

148. Re: Salt Flats are DRY (score: 1)
Author: Wester S Potter <wspotter@jps.net>
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 10:07:01 -0800
The new Secretary of the Interior nominee is from Colorado. She has she environmentalists worried because she apparently is friendlier to business. Look for Clinton and Babbitt to move before Clinton
/html/land-speed/2000-12/msg00697.html (10,161 bytes)

149. Re: Salt Flats are DRY (score: 1)
Author: Wester S Potter <wspotter@jps.net>
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 21:47:06 -0800
Environmentalists are great admirers of the racers and the salt restoration project ... nothing out there for them to get up-tight about and the results of the pumping are the restoration of a specia
/html/land-speed/2000-12/msg00740.html (8,608 bytes)

150. Re: (no subject) (score: 1)
Author: Wester S Potter <wspotter@jps.net>
Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2000 07:08:03 -0800
Keith may be from California but he's not from West Hollywood or Polk Street in San Francisco ... he wouldn't dare wear that fire suit on the street in either place today. Wes
/html/land-speed/2000-11/msg00159.html (7,213 bytes)

151. Re: Jan 1, 2001 (score: 1)
Author: Wester S Potter <wspotter@jps.net>
Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2000 07:58:28 -0800
All you have to do is stand at the starting line at World of Speed or Speed Week and you'll see someone take off with their turn signal light blinking. When you get all buttoned in with a helmet on,
/html/land-speed/2000-11/msg00160.html (7,113 bytes)

152. SEMA (score: 1)
Author: Wester S Potter <wspotter@jps.net>
Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2000 10:24:50 -0800
After three days in the Las Vegas Convention Center and The Sands Convention Center, exposure to a customized 10% of the Chrysler PT Cruisers made to date, and a pleasant lunch talking to Bev Stanley
/html/land-speed/2000-11/msg00164.html (8,632 bytes)

153. Re: Parachute (score: 1)
Author: Wester S Potter <wspotter@jps.net>
Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2000 18:14:35 -0800
This braking parachute question always leaves me wondering why the drag racers can slow from 300 mph passes with a parachute time after time without very many incidents. What is the big difference i
/html/land-speed/2000-11/msg00172.html (8,797 bytes)

154. Re: Parachute (score: 1)
Author: Wester S Potter <wspotter@jps.net>
Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2000 10:03:28 -0800
That would seem to make lots of sense ... softening the jerk on the initial hit. LSR cars don't have the luxury of lots of storage space for longer tethers but the stretch on the line could be a sho
/html/land-speed/2000-11/msg00189.html (8,913 bytes)

155. "Inside the Ride" (score: 1)
Author: Wester S Potter <wspotter@jps.net>
Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2000 11:58:27 -0800
One of the things for sale in the SEMA Shop was the CD 'Inside the Ride." Cuts 1 through 14 are messed up to my tastes with some synthesized tracks and guitar riffs over engine sounds from everythin
/html/land-speed/2000-11/msg00191.html (7,124 bytes)

156. Re: Parachute (score: 1)
Author: Wester S Potter <wspotter@jps.net>
Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2000 20:13:55 -0800
One of the things that has disturbed me has been seeing the main tether snap and leave the canopy fully deployed but just staying there. In that case the size of the chute and vehicle speed determin
/html/land-speed/2000-11/msg00204.html (10,686 bytes)

157. BLM Director (score: 1)
Author: Wester S Potter <wspotter@jps.net>
Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2000 21:28:08 -0800
Just got word from a TV source that Tom Fry, the BLM Director has announced his resignation, effective before the end of the year. A loss for those of us interested in the salt flats ... he was the
/html/land-speed/2000-11/msg00206.html (6,592 bytes)

158. Re: "Inside the Ride" (score: 1)
Author: Wester S Potter <wspotter@jps.net>
Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2000 07:56:07 -0800
Too bad you didn't get some video of that. Could have made some of the TV tricks shows for sure. Wes
/html/land-speed/2000-11/msg00216.html (6,624 bytes)

159. Re: Parachute lines (score: 1)
Author: Wester S Potter <wspotter@jps.net>
Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2000 10:01:24 -0800
The thing that disturbs me is that even after several years there are still tethers that can't handle the stress and snap so cleanly. I'm aware of the programming Deist does and the results have bee
/html/land-speed/2000-11/msg00254.html (9,054 bytes)

160. Vote (score: 1)
Author: Wester S Potter <wspotter@jps.net>
Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2000 10:39:25 -0800
VOTED YET TODAY? Think about the salt flats issues when you vote. Wes
/html/land-speed/2000-11/msg00258.html (6,160 bytes)


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