Jim, You hit the nail on the head. The world is made up of many different
kinds of people. Racing is no different. REAL racers look at someone raising the
record as a challenge. Some just race to beat their personal best speed and are
happy doing that. A record just means that up to that point in time that was the
best anyone has been able to do. Doug Odom in big ditch
Jim Dincau wrote:
> Back in the late 60's Ken and I were running a Studibaker in D gas
> supercharged coupe. The then current El Mirage record holder (a board
> member) told us he was going to protest us if we qualified because we didn't
> have the windshield wiper motors in place. Mind you the arms and blades had
> to be removed to run. What my partner told him was "you will know we went
> faster than you and we will know we went faster than you, nobody else
> counts!"
> Jim in Palmdale
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