Hope this long report will go through.
Keith Turk is half way to a red hat. Even that ghastly purple and gold fire
suit was dimmed by his happy expression as he pulled into impound.
Warnerville was jumping this morning with over forty ... yes (40) cars and
bikes trailing out for the record back up runs at 7:00 AM. George Nelson
pushed the Phoenix on it's wild record run. When the times were announced
the salt erupted with cheers. The Phoenix team had arranged for Dave Newby
to be out on the salt, in their pit, for the record run. Great gesture and
they dedicated the run to him. George said he only used a bit of nitrous
and not much boost to get the truck going. We cracked a cylinder head and
ended up changing both in about five hours. That's the time it took Cec
McRae to put the D motor in the 998 Nish streamliner. Terry wants to get
that record back from Jack Costella. Ed VanScoy damaged the motor in his
Corvette enough that Mitec Mike told him to take it home before he really
did some damage. Jon Amo was running around with a pad and pencil recording
names, speeds and taking pictures. I'm sure he will be posting something
very soon.
Salt Talks was a huge success last night. Great attendance, interesting
time putting faces on email handles, plenty of food and people hung around
until it was much too late to see faces in the dark. The Amo boys were
great hosts and Jon put a few miles on his truck running to the market three
times for additional food. Wm. T. Smith performed as chef as did Jon and
Nancy on their little grille as they served up the "pasties" to an
appreciative audience. People were asking for specific people so they could
put faces on the names they have corresponded with on and off the list.
Some things were explained ... like where "Big Ditch" is, who "Seldom Seen
Slim" actually was, Doug Anderson showed up in "Boogie Woogie" to answer
that question. From where I was standing I think everyone had a good time,
even little "Garmen". Keith took his time about getting there so there
couldn't be too many comments to Tanya about him ... didn't work. Everyone
dumped on him but she stood it and even hugged him a couple of times to
prove she has a tough skin.
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