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I just reminced myself that it has been 35 years to the day since we set a new Land Speed Record of 622.407 mph on the Bonneville Salt flats with The Blue Flame. It has been a while since I posted the link to the story, and we have some new members who might appreciate it. Therefore: http://members.aol.com/kingstonchas/TheBlueFlame.html
Ol' Geezer
To keep this post Corvette-related, I'll include a pic from Corvette News from '71.
Thanks for sharing this important Anniversary reminder!
I didn't realize you were on that team!
Since you went and looked at the Chicago car..( Nassau/Daytona 57 )..it has been quite a ride. After showing it at Bloomington in June....GM authorized an internal search of their archives and I just received 600 photo's.
Congratulations on being part of the Blue Flame History.
Great story. It is good to hear about things like that. With multi-million dollar budget teams in everything down to club racing, it is hard for anyone today to understand how shoe string things were for a lot of people. A lot of seat of the pants work on whether something worked or not.
A friend ran a Can Am operation out of a 2 car garage. Today, that wouldn't house the computers on such an operation.
Joe —
Sorry that I missed you at St. Charles. I had gone blind with MD the week before and could not drive out there.
Regarding the '57 Nassau Car. Are you planning to restore it to racing trim? Like Dale did with the '62 LeMans Car, for displlay at the NCM? Blow upp some of those pix to show with it.
Sorry to have missed you at Bloomington. I have not made any decision at this time to restore the car yet. Just taking it slow to make that irreversible decision.
It would certainly be a show stopper in race trim..but it is pretty neat as is.
I have a few of the pictures enlarged and it makes for a great display.
Maybe one day I can work something out with the NCM. GM would like it for the new Heritage Museum.
We stayed in beautiful downtown Weendover, six weeks at the Western Motel. Breakfastr each morning at the adjacent cafe, dinner each night at the State-line Casino.
I've never been baack. For years I had the itch, but I guess the salt is too soft for LSR attempts now. Recent attempts have been on the Black Rock desert, north 0f Reno. That just wpouldn't be the same.
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