[Land-speed] That was interesting -

[Ray Buck]

No.  That one is the Black Horse Racing 308:
http://www.chevyasylum.com/lsr/bsf2010/wf/pix/20101009%20054_jpg.html

RtR


On 1/27/2011 10:46 PM, John Burk wrote:
> Mark is that the one with the rear mounted BB Chevy engine ?
>
>
>> I am currently working as an auto parts driver.  Some aspects of the job
>> are nice, some aren't.  Today I made a delivery to this one shop which
>> rarely orders from us, but it happens.  It was a carb rebuild kit for a
>> 1970 Ford Torino big block.  I walk in and the guy says "Utah Fast Pass,
>> nice."
>>
>> I had sort of forgotten I was wearing the hat I got from the first 
>> running
>> of Utah Fast Pass back in 2006.  I may have mentioned it on this list
>> before.  Anyway that was the event where during the top speed segment
>> a Ferrari Enzo got a little scraped up.  Okay, it left the pavement at
>> close to 200 mph and rolled about half a dozen times, if not more.  So
>> when the guy comments on the hat I tell about being on the road events
>> crew and picking up over a million dollars worth of Ferrari a handful at
>> a time.  He says "Oh, Richard's car" and tells me what happened since
>> then.
>>
>> The guy, Richard Lossee, rebuilt the car to slightly different specs, 
>> and
>> has been running it on the Salt Flats.  He set a record for C/BFMS in 
>> the
>> World Finals of 237.871 back in October.  Not bad for what was once a
>> basket case.