Hey Ed... welcome to the List.... And I wannabe a Newbie JUST LIKE YOU...
can I stumble like that?.....geeez there I was next thing I know I'm in the
two club... wow what a bummer....
Seriously if you think your new try being in My position.... I have only
dreamed and walked on the salt... this year will be my first out there....
In a car...nice touch though... finally not a spectator... I don't care if
I have to push the car through the traps this year.... it will all be
worthwhile....
Keith Turk
Austin Healey 100 / Bugeye / Box Sprite / Bonneville Land Speed Racer
Camaro ( D Gas Altered )
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> From: Ed Van Scoy <edvs@idt.net>
> To: land-speed@autox.team.net
> Subject: "Newbie"
> Date: Wednesday, March 17, 1999 1:08 PM
>
> Greetings to all:
> As another faithful reader of BRN, I learned of this listserv from the
> last issue.
> As an introduction:
> I have always been interested in land speed racing since I was old
> enough to read about it, so I picked up a free issue of BRN at the Save
> The Salt booth at the 1991 SEMA show in Las Vegas. At that time I was
> into road racing. One day, just for the hell of it, I called Doc
> Jeffries to find out what it took to race at Bonneville. The first thing
> I learned was you needed to be able to afford a large long-distance bill
> when you called Doc! Seriously, he was a great help, especially since we
> were both running Corvettes at the time. Naturally he conned (or was it
> convinced) me to subscribe to BRN. That was when I learned about USFRA's
> 130/150 clubs for street cars. I failed miserabally at my first attempt
> at the 150 club in 1993, but was the first person to ever make the 150
> Club in 1994. I was driving a street legal 1985 Corvette set up for road
> racing.
> After a year of changes to the car, I brought it back as an LSR car
> (Gold Corvette, #128). Since then, I have made practically every rookie
> mistake imaginable, but still stumbled my way in to the B'Ville 200 Club
> in 1997. I am trying to "bump" the C/GT record up to about 215 & then
> move on to something else. Problem is, I keep breaking stuff. I am
> hoping to pick up some good tips here, and maybe offer something
> usefull. If you have a lot of idle time on your hands and want to read
> about the whole ordeal, click on
> http://vette.org/DCA/Members/EdLindaVanScoy/
>
> Later..............
> Ed Van Scoy
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