Same car--Denny Akers has the Pete Lovely Pooper. Pete's a great guy,
enormously respected in the Northwest, both for his racing prowess, and
his wisdom in buying a Testarossa that was quietly rotting away in an
alley in Seattle for $2500, racing it for many years, and selling it for
north of $5 million. Denny Akers says--I knew about that car, same as Pete
did, I used to set my beer can on it when we were sitting around shooting
the breeze. There wasn't much of anything you could use it for in those
days.
I would have been tempted to run it on the street, though certainly you'd
work on it fifty hours for every five hours of driving.
-----Original Message-----
From: kas kastner [mailto:kaskas@cox.net]
Sent: Monday, May 12, 2003 8:56 AM
To: Bill Babcock; 'Larry Young'
Cc: team
Subject: Re: Live from Pacific Raceways
I was racing at the original Pebble Beach course through the trees on 17
mile Drive in the Del Monte Forest outside aof Carmel in 1956 .I was in
my MG special. Pete Lovley came around to lap me in the original Pooper
and his throttle cable had broken, so he was reaching around to the back
of the car and operating the throttle with his hand. Still fast car and
fast guy.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Babcock" <BillB@bnj.com>
To: "'Larry Young'" <cartravel@pobox.com>
Cc: "team" <fot@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, May 12, 2003 8:42 AM
Subject: RE: Live from Pacific Raceways
> Wow, I only know of the two. Interesting that there are four, though
> it makes great sense, they work wonderfully well. Denny Akers car was
> originally built as a land speed record car and has a steering wheel
> inclined like a bus (almost flat). When you look at the universal you
> can hardly believe it doesn't bind. It was fitted with a JAP 500cc
> motor for a 500cc LSR, then they stuck in a 750 Norton for a 750cc
> LSR, then two JAPs for a 1000cc LSR. Those were the days. I think
> Cameron Healy's version is considered the first Pooper. It's very fast
> and he's an excellent driver. Any time he and Denny are at the track
> I've got serious competition.
>
> Sunday Denny led the first race right up to the last corner before the
> transponder wire (well, I passed a few times but he passed right
> back). I was showing him nose in every corner but couldn't pull away.
> In the last corner (a carousel called Big Indy) he smoked his inside
> front tire a little and I ducked under. I was first across the
> transponder wire even though he passed me before the checker.
>
> Unfortunately Denny twisted an axle, so he couldn't run the last race.
> Peyote was potentially four seconds a lap faster than second place, so
> I ran one fast lap, then waved the first two cars past and chased them
> around. Best seat in the house to watch to good drivers slug it out.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Larry Young [mailto:cartravel@pobox.com]
> Sent: Sunday, May 11, 2003 5:51 PM
> Cc: team
> Subject: Re: Live from Pacific Raceways
>
>
> Ok, I don't want to offend anyone, but I've seen several photos of
> Peyote, and I've wondered how it got its name. Is it what the guy was
> smoking when he built it? Larry
>
> Richard Hardison wrote:
>
> >Bill,
> >
> >A bit off the target of your message, but I am not sure if you meant
> >it litterally when you said " the only other Pooper in the world" or
> >not. This subject came up several years ago. The final outcome was
> >that there were four Poopers built. Amalia Palmaz races the Ken
> >Miles Pooper. I ran against her several times at CVAR races in
> >Texas.
> >
> >Richard
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