You know about a Year ago John Beckett brought up a Great point that follows
your line Don..... All of us are breed on competition.... We thrive on
it... we are mostly Type A personalities.... Hard for that group to agree on
anything.... But I think we all agree on the work of Volunteers that Make
this all Happen.... Each and everyone to a Man or Lady as the case maybe....
After that we all KNOW what is Right and what is WRONG.... It's kinda like
my Rock Business.... I know what I like but I don't have my Customers
Taste... I have to accept the Butt UGLY stuff they have me make and call my
ROCK... all in the name of what is RIGHT to them... Live and let live...
or sort it out on the Race track.... Personally I honestly enjoy all you
folks... Each and everyone... and I believe I have learned from all of you
.... For this I thank you....
Right now I gotta get some sleep so I can Drive to california in the
Morning... you folks enjoy..... and take care of each other.... we are all
Salt Flats racers if only in our Hearts.... There ain't enough of us to
squabble....
Keith ( ain't Life GRAND )( see you Friday Morning )
----- Original Message -----
From: Don Kerr <dkveuro@pop.flash.net>
To: Finishline Coatings <lona@finishlinecoatings.com>;
<land-speed@autox.team.net>
Cc: <ARDENDOUG@aol.com>
Sent: Monday, June 19, 2000 7:00 PM
Subject: Re: Oil on troubled waters.
> Open letter to whom it may concern........
> Well stump me, ain't this just how wars are started, some one
> says/mentions/infers and before you know it yer can' see fer
> Hummers !!!!!
> Opinions are like noses and everyone' got one, although some smell too.
> I left the Austin-Healey list because they couldn't put the crap away
> after a disagreement, don't make me have to report this to the Better
> Business Bureau...
> Listen, everybody is entitled to express an opinion about anything, and
> personally I don't care what's said as long as it doesn't become
> biggoted/genetic/obcene/dogmatic. If you have those sort of ideas, keep
> 'em to yer self.....or find a group that thrives on it. I have seen
> opinions expressed on here that border on the stupid in MY opinion but I
> have enough respect for a persons feelings not to tell them that's not
> wot I think and to hold any other idea is foolish. No doubt y'all have
> similar thoughts on some subjects too.
> Above all these pages are for the dissemination of ideas and
> experimentation feed back.
> Obviously we have occasionally stepped on some ones toes now and then
> and I am taking this moment to extend my humble apologize to anybody I
> have offended now and before, I hope you will except them from me as
> they are intended as a sincere expression of regret. That's my feelin's
> and I'll sit back and take it, 'cos I know it's
> comin'..................DK.
>
>
>
> .
> Finishline Coatings wrote:
> >
> > Well Doug, I went back over my e-mail several times to see what I had
> > said that warranted the put-down from you. I expected to get the kind
> > of answers that I did from Mike in LA and Dick J., but not a put-down.
> > Sorry if I offended you, I won't let it happen again as I learned a long
> > time ago that if I'm going to be offensive to someone and be frustrated
> > in the process, that it's best that I don't become involved with
> > them...so I'll be gone.
> > But let me share with you a couple of things before I go.
> > Fifty years ago when I got my first car in 1951, it was a 48 chev, 6
> > cyl. I have had a love affair with sixes ever since. I lived in a town
> > that had 10 flat motor powered hot rods for every six cyl. Even the
> > local
> > car club was dominated by flat head powered cars. The name of the club
> > was the "Head Hunters"! The club plaque was in the shape of a finned
> > Ford flathead. Needless to say, I took a lot of ribbing being the only
> > 6 cyl. guy in town, far from the fastest but definitely the loudest!
> > (With split manifold and straight pipes) Well, to this day that good
> > natured rivalry still exists. The guys I run with still tease me about
> > having only 3/4 of a v-8 and I tease them right back about it taking
> > them 8 pistons to do the job of 6 and all the other clichés that go
> > along with racing. Since 1964, I've followed the flat motors and sixes
> > at B-ville. Having friends that were running on the salt since sixty, I
> > finally started building my car in 1967. It's been a long journey,
> > every single piece of this car I built with my own two hands-except for
> > the front wheels,tires, engine block & head and 3rd member and some
> > other parts-like the fire bottles, etc. This doesn't make the car any
> > better than yours, or anyone else's. It's what I chose to do. I even
> > ran it on the drag strip for several years before getting it done enough
> > to run on the salt. Finally made it to B-ville in 9/98. First pass at
> > 116 mph. Four passes later, we managed to go 125. I was in heaven!! The
> > times didn't really matter. After 32 years of working on the car, I
> > finally got there. That same year, I got to go to El Mirage in
> > November. Three runs later, we got it up to 138 mph. Finally felt like
> > I was learning how to make the injection work. Got to go to Muroc last
> > year and got it to 150 for 4 passes. Went to B-ville last year and the
> > best was 138. Then I managed to make it run slower every pass!!..that's
> > life. But if you re-read my e-mail, you will find that this is what I
> > said... "It does not matter how fast I go, it's about having fun with
> > people that enjoy the same thing that I enjoy."
> > Last year, my son, Cedric, drove the car and this year my daughter wants
> > to drive and try to get Ced's record. The neat thing to me is that my
> > kids are getting to enjoy this too.
> > Maybe you just didn't understand what I was saying. I don't know..but it
> > won't happen again cause I'm gone.
> > I wish you the best of luck in your racing, Doug, and to all those going
> > to Muroc - drive safely but have fun and go fast.
> > RM
>
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