Ardun Doug: I'm on your team! (if you'll have me....)
-Doug in NY
>From: ARDUNDOUG@aol.com
>Reply-To: ARDUNDOUG@aol.com
>To: dferguso@ebmail.gdeb.com, land-speed@autox.team.net
>Subject: Re: Pistons?
>Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1999 16:42:29 EST
>
>In a message dated 12/02/1999 11:39:29 AM Pacific Standard Time,
>dferguso@ebmail.gdeb.com writes:
>
><< sorry group, but in my opinion NOTHING beats cars like the noble / green
> thrust ssc at 110 thousand horsepower w/ full afterburner - punching a
> shockwave through the atmosphere. my pistons would be ashtrays if i had
> that magnitude of money !!!! - doug @ black radon
> >>
>Doug,
> Sure am glad we don't all like the same thing. I respect the
>technology
>required to get an airplane to break the sound barrier without leaving the
>ground, but to me the piston-driven, wheel-driven LSR-type racing is
>where-it's-at. I wouldn't have the slightest interest in witnessing what
>they
>accomplished at Black Rock. Hell, going to the Dry Lakes or Bonneville
>without a car to wrench on is a drag. When I go to spectate I can only
>handle
>a couple of days before being bummed and ready to come
>home..............Ardun Doug in CA
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