John, That might have been the American Eagle H/BFL car my friend Kevin
Draper owns---Kevin is fighting cancer and is on "Chemo" he had some sever
issues with bailout as I undestand.
Due to heat exhaustion and possibility other issues Kevin did not make a
start after waiting most of the day to make the first run. I was approached
about driving it---the next afternoon I spent several hours in their pits
getting familiar with the car, basacially a bike with 4 wheels, Lord that
thing is beautiful---next morning Jim Travis checked me out on "Bailing
Out". I got the car up to 175-180 for a 145 mile time on the first pass for
the car.
Sparky
AA/_ L 2211
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Burk" <joyseydevil@comcast.net>
To: "LandSpeed List" <Land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2007 3:02 PM
Subject: Re: [Land-speed] Car Exiting Problems
> This Speedweek as a lakester or streamliner (I've forgotten which) came to
> the line and there was several minutes of discussion between the driver
> and
> the starter and they pushing back to the pits . As I got it , the starter
> thought the large driver couldn't have passed the bail-out test . Does
> anybody know more on this ?
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