Like with a Speedway track roadster body and frame 2,0l production
car motor. Sounds like a winner to me
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From: John Beckett[SMTP:landspeedracer@email.msn.com]
Sent: Monday, January 31, 2000 11:18 AM
To: Keith Turk; land-speed@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Youngsters
What about a spec racer...in a Lakester or Modified Roadster configuration?
Maybe with Pinto power?
John Beckett
----- Original Message -----
From: "Keith Turk" <kturk@ala.net>
To: "Hyatt Engineering Ltd." <Hyatt-Engineering-Ltd@fuse.net>;
<land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2000 3:46 PM
Subject: Re: Youngsters
> I have brought up a similiar discussion several times on this list.... the
> CHEAP ( I know there ain't nothing cheap bout racing) land speed car...
> like the 130 club but one that had basic limits on how much you could
spend
> and what kind of car it was....
>
> For example .... find something really plentiful in the junk yards like
> the 82+ Camaro and set a displacement limit of .060 over the stock 6
> cylinder motor. So that you could race the thing till it blew up... and
> slip another one in that didn't cost a fortune...... I love this idea....
> Just don't know how to make it happen and keep it honest.
>
> Keith
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