Mark is that the one with the rear mounted BB Chevy engine ?
>I am currently working as an auto parts driver. Some aspects of the job
> are nice, some aren't. Today I made a delivery to this one shop which
> rarely orders from us, but it happens. It was a carb rebuild kit for a
> 1970 Ford Torino big block. I walk in and the guy says "Utah Fast Pass,
> nice."
>
> I had sort of forgotten I was wearing the hat I got from the first running
> of Utah Fast Pass back in 2006. I may have mentioned it on this list
> before. Anyway that was the event where during the top speed segment
> a Ferrari Enzo got a little scraped up. Okay, it left the pavement at
> close to 200 mph and rolled about half a dozen times, if not more. So
> when the guy comments on the hat I tell about being on the road events
> crew and picking up over a million dollars worth of Ferrari a handful at
> a time. He says "Oh, Richard's car" and tells me what happened since
> then.
>
> The guy, Richard Lossee, rebuilt the car to slightly different specs, and
> has been running it on the Salt Flats. He set a record for C/BFMS in the
> World Finals of 237.871 back in October. Not bad for what was once a
> basket case.
>
> mjb.
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