Dan, was this Bill Ward's Opel?
Ed
Dan Warner wrote:
> Glen & list,
>
> Jim Thomas was not the driver of the Opel that crashed at the end of Sunday.
> Tim Confel was making his second run in the car. Apparantly, the car has had
> handling problems all year and Tim was helping them try and locate a
> solution.
> He mentioned to me just before the run that the car was lifting the front
> end so he removed the spoiler plate to try and unload the rear end. Jim had
> made new weight boxes which came apart and exited out the rear window. The
> boxes were filled with concrete!! NOT a good idea. Anyway, Jim Miller drove
> Tim and Sheri"s rig home to the shop then Tim went on to the Kaiser facility
> in our area. Before leaving the lakebed Tim was walking around, well limping
> and moving slow, with a black eye and many soon to be sore body parts.
>
> I'll update later when we hear from Timmy.
>
> Dan Warner
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Glen Barrett <speedtimer@earthlink.net>
> To: Keith Turk <kturk@ala.net>
> Cc: <land-speed@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Sunday, November 19, 2000 7:45 PM
> Subject: Doug Odom
>
> > As a wittness to Dougs accident I want to let everyone know that he is
> > real sore and will find a few more tender spots in the next few days. I
> > was one of the firts ones there as it started 800+ feet from the end.
> > The car went into a spin and got air born and rolled pretty hard the
> > first time and spun several times before rolling two more times. The car
> > landed on the cage. Doug was talking and very aware of what had
> > happened. The car held up super and I think is rebuildable. Well built.
> > I just got home and wanted all to know. I will go into more detail
> > tomorrow. Today near the end of the meet we had another crash, again
> > driver very sore but walking around. His name is JimThomas also in a
> > hard top sports car. This one is not rebuildable.
> > Glen
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