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Re: Bonneville Salt Flats

To: Dick J <lsr_man@yahoo.com>, land-speed <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: Bonneville Salt Flats
From: Rick Hammond <r.hammond@sympatico.ca>
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 14:18:36 -0500
Dick J wrote:

> Louise,
>
>  I hardly ever buy books, but a copy of the second edition of your 
>"Bonneville Salt Flats" book was given to me by Santa Clause last year (yes, 
>even at sixty years old, I still believe in Santa). If you've been following 
>the list much, you may have probably become aware that I just came out of the 
>hospital after my second major back surgery in seven months.  I have now had a 
>total of eight discs replaced or reworked through a series of three surgeries. 
> Some vertabrae have had to be reconstructed and reshaped, and some nerves 
>have had to be re-routed to be sure that my legs will work. I've got titanium 
>screws, titanimum hinges, teflon hinges and teflon washers all over the place.

Dick,
Hope you are up and around soon, but I hope all that titanium doesn't bump you 
out of the vintage class; you know; 'no modification is allowed to the body 
proper'...I think as long as you are behind the firewall...? ;-)
Take care,
Rick

> My MRI looks like a picture of an F-16 landing gear!  Not much fun!

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