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Re: Jack Mendenhall & Gas ups, Bill Burke

To: saltracer@awwwsome.com
Subject: Re: Jack Mendenhall & Gas ups, Bill Burke
From: "Doug Anderson" <boogiewoogie12@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2002 01:59:12 +0000
From: "Thomas E. Bryant" <saltracer@awwwsome.com>
Reply-To: saltracer@awwwsome.com
To: Doug Anderson <boogiewoogie12@hotmail.com>
CC: land-speed@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Jack Mendenhall & Gas ups,  Bill Burke
Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2002 18:25:46 -0700

  Doug,

Yes, Bill Burke was at Speedweek. I spent about thirty minutes talking to 
him on the starting line. He is in good health and has a very positive 
attitude about life. It was the first time that I had talked to Bill at 
length. A truly great guy and a legend in his own time.

Tom, Redding CA - #216 D/GCC



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Thank you Tom  -thats great news.  Yes I too admire Bill and his outlook on 
life. I've been honored to have had dinner with him twice; once in 1990 and 
again in 1998 when I hung around his and son Steve's pit helpin' out a lil' 
bit.  Whilst we were dining in '98, Al Teague slid in next to me to chat 
with Bill. Al was bummmed about his new record in B/streamliner -set that 
day, while breaking an old Markley Bros. record, was not by a very large 
margin....  Bill,-and I both told Al that a record is a record and that he 
should be proud of his achievement.  Of course being the quintesential 
racer,that did'nt change his point of view one bit...  Al's a super guy in 
my book as well.  And I don''t think I'll get an argument  on that one. Bill 
also fixed me up with a 200 MPH club dinner ticket in '89 as well. A super 
guy. A gentleman. One of my heroes.  And I don't have many.

Well,maybe I do; I do "pay attention" in life and "keep score" of the GOOD 
guys.  Unfortunately though, they're far outnumbered by the -well let's just 
say they're outnumbered and leave it at that...



Cheers,
         "Dirt Track Doug" Anderson ,in exile, in NeuYaWK



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safety deserve neither liberty nor safety"

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