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RE: Fastest Injun

To: "Ray Buck" <rbuck@aros.net>, "Wester Potter"
Subject: RE: Fastest Injun
From: "Albaugh, Neil" <albaugh_neil@ti.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 10:19:32 -0600
Ray;

Thanks for those wonderful photos of the WFI movie shoot. The pictures
mean more to me now that I've seen the movie; I can relate your pictures
to what was happening on the screen.

Regards, Neil    Tucson, AZ


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-land-speed@autox.team.net
[mailto:owner-land-speed@autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Ray Buck
Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2006 8:52 AM
To: Wester Potter; Nt788@aol.com
Cc: karhu@california.com; land-speed@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Fastest Injun

Yep.  The lines were used for the starting line scenes:
http://www.chevyasylum.com/bsf2004/wfi/1009/20041009_001.html
http://www.chevyasylum.com/bsf2004/wfi/1009/20041009_017.html
and didn't extend very far at all.  Half mile is probably a good 
estimate.  This was on the north side of the set, and as Wes said, 
the set was a half-mile or so from the WF pits.

At 08:53 PM 02/06/2006, Wester Potter wrote:

>Actually the lines used in the movie were only about a half mile 
>long as I recall.  Ron Christensen or Ray Buck should be able to 
>give you a definitive answer on that. They didn't use the course 
>that was laid out half a mile away for World Finals but had their 
>own.  They shut down filming when a car or bike ran.




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