242 record by the Bryant's is awesome...Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch. I
think that this now means that Tom and all of his sons are now 2 Club
members. Great accomplishment.
Steve Pitt
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Beckett" <saltracer@servusa.com>
To: "Land Speed List" <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 6:09 PM
Subject: Speed Week
> Well I guess I missed a good one. Lots of stuff going on all the time.
Waiting
> around here trying to get little tidbits of info on what's going on. What
a
> bummer for me.
>
> Of major interest for me was Tom Bryant's runs. 242 MPH, Wow. Unbelievable
HP.
> For those of you who don't know, Tom has been running on the salt since
> before it was dry. Anyway when I came on the scene 15 years ago the record
in
> D/GCC was 206 MPH. And Tom was still running the Pierson Coupe. A few
years
> later I managed to take the record at 210 MPH. We've traded it back and
forth
> many time over the past years, and its been good competition. But what is
so
> impressive to me is that we have, more accurately Tom has, managed to put
36
> MPH on that original record. Hope I'm up to the task of taking it back one
> more time in Sept. I know Tom won't make it easy for me, but the pressure
is
> what keeps me working hard for better results. I've got kids I want to put
in
> the Two Club too.
> Congratulation to Tom and Dan
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