[Land-speed] Salt clips 2

[Wester Potter]

Mooneyes had a modified roadster on the salt, painted in tribute  
colors and design to Fred Larsen and his 115 liner.  MaryLou Larsen  
came up to see it run and she was happy to be back on the salt.  Sweet  
lady!

Nish's lined made the fastest run of the day, 374 or so If I remember  
correctly.  It sounded healthy, no reported problems and I'm sure they  
will just prime for the private FIA, FIM meet next month.

Doug Odom had a fire on his streamliner run, an oil line too close to  
a header.  They'll get that fixed.

The "spirit of rhett" liner, the former Nafzger car made a smooth take  
off run.  Check the results for the time

Glenn had problems with the CB radio for reporting times.  Someone sat  
on a mike, they switched channels but experienced other problems too.   
They switched to another radio and that helped but the bugs are not  
out of the system yet.

The third "special" course is around the dike from the othere two  
courses and the only way you knew there were runs on it was from CB  
time reports.

Overall, waits didn't appear to be as long as last year.  There was  
more policing of things as cars approached the starting line and less  
at the other end of the access lines from what I saw.  The starting  
area is less than a mile from the end of the access road.  The salt is  
dry.  There's not much on cars that stayed on the areas that have been  
used but chase vehicles were still salted up.  A spin took out the  
lights and mile marker at the 2, blown engines left parts behind to  
require course sweeps but they were accomplished in reasonable time  
from what I say.

Salt Talks was well attended and a few folks really cleaned up at the  
prize drawing.  There's photos up at landracing.com of the event.

It seemed like there were at least triple the number of canpers at the  
"Bend in the Road" on both sides of the road and folks were so tired  
the 10:30 fireworks didn't even cause too much angst from comments I  
overheard.

Sunday evening at the Nugget was wild.  There must have been over 80  
rods and 50's style custom cars there.  Hundreds of spectators  
enjoying the display.  I heard the casino folks weren't too happy that  
the action was outside, not inside.

Wes