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Re: World Finals web pages

To: Glen Barrett <speedtimer@charter.net>
Subject: Re: World Finals web pages
From: "Thomas E. Bryant" <saltracer@awwwsome.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 09:17:25 -0700
Ray,

An excellent web page. Great pictures!
Tom, Redding CA - #216 D/CC


>>Here's a rookie's attempt to capture the essence of the World Finals thru
>>the eyes of an old car nut who is new to land speed racing....but has a
>>little experience in hotrodding, sports car, drag and oval track
>>racing....and programming.  (Yeah...since 1966.)
>>
>>I've almost got the whole catastrophe done.  The first three days have an
>>html page with captions and navigation for each inage, all accessible from
>>a thumbnail page.  The last day has the html and navigation and thumbs,
> 
> but
> 
>>no captions yet.  I'll do that tomorrow.
>>
>>It was tough to write up the pics from Friday's crash.  I found myself
>>going thru the same kind of anxiety that I went thru at the time, before
> 
> we
> 
>>found out that Seth Hammond was gonna be ok.  As I understand it, he was
>>released from the hospital Monday, muttering about rebuilding the car or
>>building a new one.
>>
>>There's some pretty cool machinery there.  I'm fascinated by the 1/2
> 
> Rodeck
> 
>>hemi coupe.  That sucker is something else.  There's another one on the
>>last page that doesn't have the captions yet, but the motor is from a 70s
>>Renault Gordini Mirage that ran at LeMans.  It's a 4-cam turbo V6 in a
>>roadster body.  Very, very different.
>>
>>If ya wanna check it out, fine.  If ya find any booboos, lemme know and
>>I'll fix 'em.  I'll respectfully ask for polite corrections and/or
>>additions, since I'm new at this.  But I'll happily fix my errors and make
>>things right.





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