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Re: DRLA Address

To: <Nt788@aol.com>, <yesford@clear.net.nz>, <popms@thegrid.net>,
Subject: Re: DRLA Address
From: "The Butters Family" <bbutters@dmi.net>
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 20:23:58 -0700
      Thanks for sharing that Jack, that's the same way I burned down my
Stude at WOS several years ago,  Check to see if the line is hooked up,
somehow it's easy to forget. Kvach, hoppin for no more fires in North Idaho
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From: <Nt788@aol.com>
To: <yesford@clear.net.nz>; <popms@thegrid.net>; <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, August 21, 2000 8:03 PM
Subject: Re: DRLA Address


> Hi Doug,
>
> Maybe this would interest you about Bonneville stuff, the old camouflage
'67
> Chevy camper made it right past all the brand new duelies without a
stumble.
> Alky 3 liter Datsun with 3rd gear only got a record 226.  The best story -
we
> took the transmission apart behind the motel and was able to find a 1968
C4
> automatic transmission in a junk pile within 4 minutes.  The supercharged
> 3liter Datsun wouldn't make power.  Thursday morning we switched to the
400
> CID small block.  It caught on fire fueled by an open half inch fuel line.
> Me and a crew member breathed some oxygen  after it was out, squirted some
> water on the fire mess, got it to run and went 303 out the back.  What's
so
> hard about Bonneville racing?
>
> Thanks for the interest.
>
> Jack Costella
>


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