guys like "Burt" (which i never had the pleasure of meeting) , are my heros!
dad
Lone Eagle Motor Co.
1610 A Sigman rd.
Conyers GA. 30012
770-760-9101
eaglemot@bellsouth.net
www.lone-eagle.net
National Land Speed Record Holders
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Burk" <joyseydevil@comcast.net>
To: <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2004 11:40 PM
Subject: Burt Monro
> I remember reading about Burt in Drag News when he came to Bonneville ,
seems
> to me in the middle 60s - He came on a minimum budget - He bought a 53
> Chrysler with some bearing problems that he corrected himself - "I scraped
the
> bearings with me penknife" - He machined his pistons from castings he made
by
> poking a hole in the ground with a stick and poured in some aluminum he
melted
> in a pot - He machined his cylinders from cast iron sewer pipe and forged
his
> connecting rods from a bulldozer axle - If I remember he said at the time
he
> had raced it continuously since 1925 and blown up the motor 150 times -
Guys
> like Burt stick in your mind .
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