Hi Bill,
Mickey gave me a couple of tires (off the 4 engined car) to run on my E/S
in '63 and I probably wouldn't have run if he hadn't. And I have some 8mm
footage of the 4 engined car running in '59.
That's about all I have except a lot of admiration for the man.
Will they ever figure out what really happened to him?
Skip
At 09:17 AM 1/6/01 , you wrote:
>Hi Folks, recently got ahold of a great little book via Abebooks.com
>that I somehow missed 40 years ago, "Challenger" by Mickey Thompson with
>Griffith Borgeson. Borgeson was at the height of his powers as one of
>our best automotive writers at the time, and this is a dynamite read.
>
>Thompson seems to have been loved and hated in equal measures in his
>day, but he was undeniably one hell of a hot-rodder, doing everything,
>up to his 409 mph one-way in his four-Pontiac V-8 streamliner at
>Bonneville.
>
>Reason I mention this is to ask if any of the veteran Bonneville men on
>this List have any Mickey Thompson stories they can share with us.
>Cheers from Ardun Bill in the Great Dismal Swamp, Chesapeake, VA
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