What issue was it in? If they have an e-mail address we should let them know
how we feel. Maybe that attitude is why we seldom see anything on Bonneville
any more.
John Beckett
-----Original Message-----
From: Wester S Potter <wspotter@jps.net>
To: land-speed@autox.team.net land-speed@autox.team.net
<land-speed@autox.team.net>
Date: Friday, December 17, 1999 1:42 AM
Subject: Hot Rod dis...
>Llist,
>Did anyone else see the put down reply to the letter to the editor on Hot
>Rod written by Ken Walkey. Sort of a "there's no racing but quarter mile"
>attitude. Now I remember why I didn't re-new my subscription. Obviously
>they don't have a clue about who he is or what he has done for salt flats
>racing. After you set a land-speed record over three hundred I think you
>have to get some courtesy for your opinion. For those who don't know Ken,
>he shares the announcing duties on our 1610 radio station on the salt with
>Ron Christensen. Wonder where the Hot Rod Mag. boys would be without their
>spell checkers and editorial assistants who re-write their stories? Most
of
>them have never been to the salt and some of the others must have spent too
>much time inhaling nitro fumes at the drags. I was disappointed in their
>attitude to say the least. Oh well, I am very sure they have seen his work
>on the life-like animated characters at Disneyland
>Wes
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