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281. a longer race (score: 1)
Author: Wester S Potter <wspotter@jps.net>
Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 21:41:03 -0700
Heading out early in the AM for Ely, NV and the Nevada Open Road Challenge race on Sunday ... slightly longer strip of pavement than Maxton and even longer than the salt flats. Check your maps for t
/html/land-speed/2000-05/msg00212.html (7,446 bytes)

282. Silver State race (score: 1)
Author: Wester S Potter <wspotter@jps.net>
Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 22:49:44 -0700
Saw Ed Van Scoy today, at 150 mph. Waved at him and got some good action photos ... I hope. He sure sounded good going by mile 4.1 of the race. The car was smooth, healthy sounding and ... you never
/html/land-speed/2000-05/msg00219.html (7,777 bytes)

283. Re: Fuel and Gas Class (score: 1)
Author: Wester S Potter <wspotter@jps.net>
Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 19:56:06 -0700
Every time someone talks about nitrous I think of the Firebird Gary Aikers (sp?) and Eric Steggemeyer (sp?)(now of NO2 Systems) ran at World of speed ten years ago. The engine was a John Lingenfelte
/html/land-speed/2000-05/msg00253.html (11,296 bytes)

284. salt flats (score: 1)
Author: Wester S Potter <wspotter@jps.net>
Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 08:33:56 -0700
The salt looks pretty much dry at the present time. The water along I-80 stretches at most maybe 50 yards to the north from the dirt fill road that parallels the freeway over to the Salduro Loop. Pl
/html/land-speed/2000-05/msg00268.html (6,747 bytes)

285. Re: Congrats to Rick (score: 1)
Author: Wester S Potter <wspotter@jps.net>
Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 12:41:40 -0700
A miserable 6th? Lets put that in perspective ... out of fourteen cars, you were one of three running without a navigator, you averaged over the target speed by .6857 over almost ninety miles, trave
/html/land-speed/2000-05/msg00276.html (7,614 bytes)

286. Re: USFRA's Secretary (score: 1)
Author: Wester S Potter <wspotter@jps.net>
Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 13:03:48 -0700
Nothing moves fast in this publicity stuff. I first talked to Peter Fish 22 months ago. Schedules and problems delayed contact in person until last August. He timed the Western Wanderings bit to giv
/html/land-speed/2000-05/msg00312.html (7,997 bytes)

287. Re: Fuel and Gas Class (score: 1)
Author: Wester S Potter <wspotter@jps.net>
Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 13:15:25 -0700
We have been telling Kenny Kloth for many years that his XF/PRO '49 Mercury would be more aerodynamic if he ran backwards. Darn guy persists in doing the driving the usual way and making the flathead
/html/land-speed/2000-05/msg00313.html (10,283 bytes)

288. Re: C motor and Nitrous....Hmmm (score: 1)
Author: Wester S Potter <wspotter@jps.net>
Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 07:45:50 -0700
If Jacobs stands behind their product and ships as accurately for their nitrous controller as they did with my ignition system you have problems. Wes -- <landspeedracer@email.msn.com>,<land-speed@aut
/html/land-speed/2000-05/msg00342.html (13,772 bytes)

289. Re: More "Open-Road Racers" at B-ville (score: 1)
Author: Wester S Potter <wspotter@jps.net>
Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 08:11:37 -0700
Jim Marz, Car #81, running in the 120 mph target speed class, has a new paint job this year with white on the nose and from the beltline down on his '81 Corvette. It is extremely well done and with t
/html/land-speed/2000-05/msg00345.html (8,624 bytes)

290. Re: GPU or GPS? (score: 1)
Author: Wester S Potter <wspotter@jps.net>
Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 10:25:05 -0700
A guy I used to work with was given a hand held global position finder as a Christmas gift. Referred to it as a GPU. He runs 100 mile races over mountain passes and had become lost a couple of times
/html/land-speed/2000-05/msg00402.html (8,108 bytes)

291. Memorial Day (score: 1)
Author: Wester S Potter <wspotter@jps.net>
Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 07:45:19 -0700
Glenn "Penny" Powell who gave me rides on his shoulders so I could see the world like grown-ups did ... he died in the hedgerows of Normandy. His across the street neighbor, Dee Schow who watched hi
/html/land-speed/2000-05/msg00431.html (6,791 bytes)

292. Re: PRICE OF GAS VS : (score: 1)
Author: Wester S Potter <wspotter@jps.net>
Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 06:07:01 -0700
Reminds me of a comment made by Doug McCombs when he set the U/DT record. "How many other racers can make a record pass at over 220 mph on $5 worth of fuel?" The man had a point! Wes --
/html/land-speed/2000-05/msg00455.html (9,114 bytes)

293. Re: PRICE OF GAS VS : (score: 1)
Author: Wester S Potter <wspotter@jps.net>
Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 23:52:31 -0700
Someone on his crew said he was running a gasoline mix ... or I heard wrong. Have tp ask Rick tomorrow. Wes -- <land-speed@autox.team.net> of
/html/land-speed/2000-05/msg00474.html (10,143 bytes)

294. Salt Flats (score: 1)
Author: Wester S Potter <wspotter@jps.net>
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 23:30:06 -0700
For your information ... Rick Vesco and the off road vehicle dealers in Utah are battling an incredibly well financed (one point three million dollars from Donald Trump) attempt to close all BLM lan
/html/land-speed/2000-04/msg00051.html (7,631 bytes)

295. Re: lost (score: 1)
Author: Wester S Potter <wspotter@jps.net>
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 22:05:40 -0700
We had the Autorama in the Salt Palace this last weekend. The USFRA entries were three Bonneville streamliners and a '32 highboy roadster, 150 Club Shelby 350 GT Mustang, a 130 Club full fendered T r
/html/land-speed/2000-04/msg00069.html (7,552 bytes)

296. Re: Hot Rod Mag (score: 1)
Author: Wester S Potter <wspotter@jps.net>
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 08:06:48 -0700
Street Rodder has a three page bit on Salt Flats coverage from '99 in the current issue. Could be a good contest for Jonathan ... identify the unidentified cars and tell who actually drove them. Wes
/html/land-speed/2000-04/msg00084.html (7,859 bytes)

297. Re: Brakes, batteries and Al (score: 1)
Author: Wester S Potter <wspotter@jps.net>
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 07:59:22 -0700
Just saw the new Raybestos CERAMIC brake pads at the car show over the last weekend. They are built for the type of high demand braking that is required on the salt. That might be a better way to ha
/html/land-speed/2000-04/msg00097.html (8,999 bytes)

298. Re: mail (score: 1)
Author: Wester S Potter <wspotter@jps.net>
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 21:57:42 -0700
Mail Hah! Snail is more like it. I sent a PRIORITY MAIL package, a wood stool, nicely boxed, bulky but not heavy, from SLC to the Wilshire Post Office in Los Angeles, 700 miles by car. Two weeks late
/html/land-speed/2000-04/msg00142.html (9,486 bytes)

299. Re: More aero-dynamics (score: 1)
Author: Wester S Potter <wspotter@jps.net>
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 21:13:28 -0700
If so there are some early fiberglas streamliners that went much faster than their powerplants should have pushed them. Wes -- there ?
/html/land-speed/2000-04/msg00169.html (8,490 bytes)

300. Re: On line chat topic (score: 1)
Author: Wester S Potter <wspotter@jps.net>
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 07:52:29 -0700
Your reply avoids and then also underscores my comments. First; Any record is only as good as the acceptance of that record by those involved in the same sport. By calling yourself "LandSpeed Louise
/html/land-speed/2000-03/msg00012.html (17,370 bytes)

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