- 1. [Land-speed] Tearing up the salt (score: 1)
- Author: Wester Potter <wester6935@comcast.net>
- Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 15:01:28 -0600
- Apparently Boyd Coddington's motorhome bogged down after going through the thin salt crust. The rescue vehicles didn't fare much better and there is a very long, deep gouge in the salt and mud where
- /html/land-speed/2007-08/msg00205.html (7,740 bytes)
- 2. Re: [Land-speed] Tearing up the salt (score: 1)
- Author: "Tom Bryant" <saltracer@awwwsome.com>
- Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 14:30:15 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time)
- I don't know where Coddington's motor home bogged down, but the salt is very thin in many places. A few years ago, I believe at a WOS Meet, a motor home got buried near the starting line near the di
- /html/land-speed/2007-08/msg00207.html (8,445 bytes)
- 3. Re: [Land-speed] Tearing up the salt (score: 1)
- Author: "Glen Barrett" <speedtimer@beyondbb.com>
- Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 15:37:58 -0600
- Being somewhat farther east this area is thin from the mining. We warned people about the thin salt and to not take heavy vehicles down the #2 return road. I guess they didn't have a radio on and mis
- /html/land-speed/2007-08/msg00208.html (9,576 bytes)
- 4. Re: [Land-speed] Tearing up the salt (score: 1)
- Author: "Clay, Dale" <Dale.Clay@mdhelicopters.com>
- Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 14:42:03 -0700
- I guess they didn't have a radio on and missed the info we gave out. Guess they learned THAT lesson! :) Dale C. The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is ad
- /html/land-speed/2007-08/msg00209.html (7,774 bytes)
- 5. Re: [Land-speed] Tearing up the salt (score: 1)
- Author: ed@vetteracing.com
- Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 22:03:05 +0000
- As you know, this isn't the first time a motorhome has gotten stuckjust off the starting line. The damage done in the Coddington incidentmay never heal. But some years it is hard as I-80 on the retur
- /html/land-speed/2007-08/msg00211.html (8,491 bytes)
- 6. Re: [Land-speed] Tearing up the salt (score: 1)
- Author: BWANA343@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 20:54:40 EDT
- There are many other places where the salt is thin. I suspect that one of the big problems with the salt thickness, at least around the access road, is the building of the freeway and the access road
- /html/land-speed/2007-08/msg00213.html (7,877 bytes)
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