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Show SALT FLAT NEWS, JUNE, 1975 Page 11 i Wsmm Ofl(o tempt, figures as high as It by Charlie Gellerman Salt Flat News Midwest Correspondent The siren call of the Salt Flats has finally been identified. It seems that an unheralded land speed record jet making practice run? on the international course got loose with its afterburner full "on" and is presently circling "floating" mountain, emitting a wail. The record's straight on that. Rumor here is that it was a test vehicle smuggled into the country from England by David Gossling who plans a world land speed record attempt with a turbine powered Bluebird, named in deference to the marvelous 7 Blue Biros", raced to world headlines by Sir Malcolm Campbell several decades ago. .Word from Sydney, is that the delay in completing the Aus this column. Craig Breedlove got Fox's way of celebrating the tralian land speed record car his real estate broker's license Bicentennial Year after the Fedwith 32 rotary engines was recently and Is doing yery well in eral government refused to let caused by the assembly instruc- the Torrance area. ABC-Thim run the car from Lexington tions being printed in Japanese. stalwart Bud Palmer sends along to Concord to open the BicenFortunately, a German automo- fresh information on the Russian tennial Year. Inveterate rocket high-pitch- ed , $ 1 15,000 have been bandied One network was considering "live" coverage on the Salt Flats, but rejected the idea because, as its spokesman explained, they couldn't find anything "live" between Tooele and Wells. Lyn Poulson at Wen- dover's Best Western Motel will be comforted to know that the horned toad captured by Johnny Gellerman during a church supper last August has survived one of Minnesota's fiercest winters. about merely buried itself in its ter-rariu- m home in November and didn't emerge until Ground Hog's day. Ifs thriving on meal worms and looks forward to returning to Wendover for a visit in! August The rumor that Morton Salt Co. was acquiring the State of Utah has been given the' lie by Jimmy Epsom, the company's marketing director who simply says, "This isn't the season for expansion of bur product line." . V tive engineer who has worked Land speed record car that he closely .with the Mazda car peo-- obtained during a trip to pie in xuftju ww- muiv tu uaw Moscow. Because this informalate the instructions into tion is so startling to the racing German. Our understanding now world, we're reproducing a. is that Jody Scheckter has photo of the car. The top speed of 1,000 mph is truly astonishagreed to make an English translation when his racing team goes ing, you'll agree. Salt Flat News - ' . for the out ; to Australia o s patron, Harry Reasoner, lunched awhile back with that indomilate una year. inimniin Ifs wonderful to see this kind of table and voluble land speed international cooperation in fur- record enthusiast, Tony Fox, at thering land speed record racing. New York's Four Seasons resFormer world record holder Art taurant. After regaling Reasoner Arfons, Akron, O., whose ex- for an hour and a half with his ploits on the Salt Flats include wizardry at making money, the world's longest crash, has Reasoner remarked, "I've been put his jet car design talents to doing pretty well myself lately, uses: new money-makin- g Tony." Tony's forays on the farm' tractors. Art re- Salt Flats have netted 21 world ports the tractcpulling cham- and national records on the pionship of Florida was added to short course and he plans to be his laurels in March. For back in August of this year with $100,000, he is willing to build an act thaf s unbelievable. That s it back into a land speed car by way of warm up for his 1976 again and go after : Gabelich's assault, on the flying mile with 622 mph record. Ws that siren his Proud American- - hydrogen call that we explained earlier in peroxide rocket car. This is m i pan luiu. . jet-powere- d . car builder Bin Fredericks, Chatsworth, Cat, is putting together his contender for the world's ultimate record. He's talking about steel wheels instead of rubber tires. The land speed .record of more than 5,100 mph, which was set at Hollomon Air Force Base in New Mexico by a U.S. Air Force sled will not be entered in the record books of Federation Internationale l'Automobile, Paris. National Hot Rod Association, which represents the world sanctioning body, had a conflict in its schedule for. the day, the run was made. Runners on the sled were not directly, driven by the three rockets supplying the thrust The Air Force is consulting with Craig Breedlove whose Spirit of America jet car was the center of a similar controversy in 1960. With the three national television networks bidding for the exclusive, rights to coverage of the next land speed record at-. roe never hurt anybody in my Ufa, and I spent five years or a and five years in the United States Marine Corps. So officer police become necessary.". - ; . doesn't Im hoping it "Now, .!.."' (Continued from page 5) more attractive, more classic, My lifestyle would work for more cultural women of his everybody. Because my lifestyle time'.is, that insofar as other people I think' Brigham was quite a don't interfere with the rights of bit more honest than I am. I their friends and neighbors, that wanted to. get in 'a plural marthey should be allowed to do whatever they please. That liferiage because I had some imbeI motivations when, proper style will work for everybody. I don't know. not .Okay? That lifestyle will work. Maybe gan. You know, I'm answering purely As. to whether every man in to my own reckoning, which is the world has enough, skill to the only one I. give a damn govern a family with thirteen or about But I've read stories fourteen wives in it, that's someabout Brigham Young, that he thing for him to find out. Okay? wished that he hadn't been put I don't have the handbook nor through the ordeal that he went the ruler that says, 'you can do through in consequence of what it and he can't do it' I know I he believed. I just don't know. can do it, and I know I could do twice as many, because I have It's hard trying to compare your' self to somebody in history. , confidence in myself, and I've '' ; And it seems that I have a lot demonstrated the ability in of respect for Brigham. If I met myself. Now, I would be happy him on the street, I'd be glad .to to show people things. Fd be meet him. I'd be interested in happy to start somebody off, exchanging stories with him. I'd give 'em a little starter. aspire to be invited to his house SALT FLAT. NEWS: A little lor; dinner. And I would think starter? his wives were lovely, and I would respect them . and I ' Yeah, a little starter. I like to wouldn't -- I don't think I'd be tell 'em, the first thing you do, if able to. make the observation you want to be married to fifthat you made, that they were teen girlvyou had better try, or not very good looking. Mark at least start to learn how to reTwain did. He said that he'd spect women. Okay? Because if seen some of the plural wives of 'you don't respect them, how in the world do you ever expect to Utah, and he said they shouldn't ' He men said in jail. put them enjoy living with fifteen of them? And If you're not going they should give 'em a medal to enjoy it, why do it? SALT FLAT NEWS: Well, you SALT FLAT NEWS: Thank you, will agree that yourUfestyle isn't Alex Joseph. for everyone? - .' - He points with pride. Tony Fox and his marvelous LSR car perched atop the Bonneville Boss, an and powered by ah exclusive rocket support vehicle. Its a front wheel steer, front wheel drive Olds Toronado 426. It's so phish inside it's embarrassing. 10-whee- nn Vol.1 vvra : No. 1 These copies are extremeiy rare Selected back issues are afailablefor $1.00 each To order write to BOX 1 1717, Salt Lake City, Utah 841 1 1 . - . -- |