Were a little testy today arn't we.Tonight should be a blast KT.
Glen LOL
----- Original Message -----
From: "Keith Turk" <kturk@ala.net>
To: "Glen Barrett" <speedtimer@earthlink.net>; "Ron Keller"
<tinwiz1@hotmail.com>
Cc: <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 4:36 PM
Subject: Re: WRONGWAY BODIES?... c'mon, eh?
> It's a damn good thing I can't find that Z bar either.... cause I'd pitch
it
> at you Glen ... and the way my luck has run it would act like a boomerang
> and then you would have Three days of reports on my head injuries......
if
> this didn't hurt you as much as it hurt me to write.... Hmmm)
>
> On to the Chat Glen.... 8pm Central Time.... Don't bring your gloves...(
> yeah I have seen you type with them on.... hmmm).. ( hey whatever happened
> to beating up Jon... that was alot more fun?)
>
> Keith
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Glen Barrett" <speedtimer@earthlink.net>
> To: "Ron Keller" <tinwiz1@hotmail.com>
> Cc: <land-speed@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 6:18 PM
> Subject: Re: WRONGWAY BODIES?... c'mon, eh?
>
>
> > Ron
> > If you think were nuts on this list, try www.landracing.com tonight,
the
> nuts
> > really go bananas except Keith. He's beyond nuts and still looking for
the
> lost
> > zee bar.
> > Glen
> >
> > Ron Keller wrote:
> >
> > > Hi everyone!
> > > As a very recent newcomer to this list, I have been sitting back
and
> > > reading all these ridiculous emails, with great enthusiasum.
> > > BUT NOW!...after reading all this "stuff" about mounting a body
> > > backwards..."just to make a darn car go faster"...I realized
something!
> > > HELL! YOU GUYS ARE AS CRAZY AS ME! HONEY I'M HOME...lol!
> > > ...(BUT that's jus' MY opinion!)
> > > Y'all have a good night, you car-"NUTS"!...Ron Keller
> > >
> > > >From: FastmetalBDF@aol.com
> > > >Reply-To: FastmetalBDF@aol.com
> > > >To: Want1937hd@aol.com, land-speed@autox.team.net
> > > >Subject: WRONGWAY BODIES ALREADY DISCUSSED HERE
> > > >Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 16:32:35 EST
> > > >
> > > >:
> > > >Subj: BACKASSWARDS ? THAT HAS BEEN DONE !!!
> > > >Date: 11/30/00 5:12:14 PM Pacific Standard Time
> > > >From: FastmetalBDF
> > > >To: jdincau@qnet.com, land-speed@autox.team.net
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Jim, You said you can' t mount a roadster body backwards for
> > > >streamlining .
> > > >I am sure that is very true ...... nowadays ! However, this HAS
> been
> > > >done !!!
> > > > Some years ago, I saw an article on the dry lakes, and there,
> big as
> > > >life,
> > > >was a photo of a ' 29 roadster with the body actually mounted
BACKWARDS
> !
> > > > This was a meet in the post war years, or early Fifties, and I
> think
> > > >it might have been sanctioned by either Russetta, or Cal - Neva ,
and
> the
> > > >car looked ridiculously stupid, as you can imagine, and the caption
> under
> > > >the
> > > >pic mused about what length would these ( crazy ) hot rodders go to
> .......
> > > >to make their race car go faster .......
> > > > As dumb as it looked, it might have made that oddball ride a
wee
> bit
> > > >faster,
> > > >and I wonder if anyone else on the list ever actually saw this car at
> the
> > > >lakes ?
> > > > This would have been a REAL head turner ....... and ran LONG
> before
> > > >drag racing' s backward bodied " Back Up Pickup ", and the name of
the
> fun
> > > >loving team that ran it must have settled into the dust of that dry
> lake
> > > >many
> > > >moons ago . We won' t see another like it ever run ....... but as
> they
> > > >say
> > > >nowadays ........ somebody has " Been there ..... Done that "
> > > >Truth is stranger than fiction / There' s nothing new under the
sun
> /
> > > > They said it couldn' t be done
> > > > Bruce
> > > >
> > >
> > >
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