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RE: Pistons?

To: "Wester S Potter" <wspotter@jps.net>
Subject: RE: Pistons?
From: "Steve Pitt" <steve@seattleconstructioninc.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1999 11:51:50 -0800
Wes in SLC,
Thank you for the offer of a tape of BONNEVILLE 1960.  I would LOVE to have
a copy.  Let me know what, where and how much.
Regards, Steve Pitt in Friendly (don't believe all the headlines) Seattle

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-land-speed@autox.team.net
> [mailto:owner-land-speed@autox.team.net]On Behalf Of Wester S Potter
> Sent: Friday, December 03, 1999 8:23 AM
> To: Steve Pitt
> Cc: land-speed@autox.team.net land-speed@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: Pistons?
>
>
> Steve, Tom, Jim, all.
> I taped a copy of mine ... Griff Borgeson Presents BONNEVILLE 1960 ... for
> Dennis Manning.  He traded me a copy of his Bonneville crash in the
> motorcycle streamliner in the '80 s.  Only problem is that my record isn't
> in stereo.  Be happy to send you a copy for the postage and
> padded envelope.
> Wes in SLC
> ----------
> > From: "Steve Pitt" <steve@seattleconstructioninc.com>
> > To: "land speed" <land-speed@autox.team.net>
> > Subject: RE: Pistons?
> > Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1999 16:38:35 -0800
> >
> >As a kid I had a 78 rpm record that was recorded at Bonneville titled
> >"Sounds of Bonneville".  (pretty basic) As I remember it was from 1959 or
> >60.  It had sounds of everything from small bore 2-stroke motorcycles to
> >Mickey Thompson's Challenger I streamliner at 406 mph, plus everything in
> >between.  Sweet sounds!  Next year I finally plan to hear the
> real thing!!
> >I wish I still had that record!?!?  I kept it for years until my "ex"
> >decided I had to many old dusty records and sold it for a quarter!
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: owner-land-speed@autox.team.net
> >> [mailto:owner-land-speed@autox.team.net]On Behalf Of Ferguson, Darrell
> >> Sent: Thursday, December 02, 1999 1:53 PM
> >> To: 'ARDUNDOUG@aol.com'; dferguso@ebmail.gdeb.com;
> >> land-speed@autox.team.net
> >> Subject: RE: Pistons?
> >>
> >>
> >> How about an Injected Hemi on 96% Fuel punching through the
> back of mile
> 5
> >> at over 300 ?
> >>
> >>    -----Original Message-----
> >>    From:   ARDUNDOUG@aol.com [SMTP:ARDUNDOUG@aol.com]
> >>    Sent:   Thursday, December 02, 1999 3:48 PM
> >>    To:     dferguso@ebmail.gdeb.com; land-speed@autox.team.net
> >>    Subject:        Re: Pistons?
> >>
> >>    In a message dated 12/02/1999 12:11:00 PM Pacific Standard Time,
> >>    dferguso@ebmail.gdeb.com writes:
> >>
> >>    << try comparing the sound alone
> >>      >>
> >>        NOTHING compares to a blown hemi on steroids at about the Mile-4
> >> marker
> >>    making an early-morning record run with the sound echoing off the
> >> hills.
> >>        I know that the inlines in XO & XXO go faster and live longer
> >> than my
> >>    little XXF engine, but I think I'd find another hobby if I had to
> >> give up my
> >>    little hemi.
> >>        Ain't diversity great. If we all liked the same thing (other
> >> than SBC's)
> >>    there would be parts shortages.
> >>                                            Ardun Doug in CA
> >>
> >
> >
>
>


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