![]() One was a Popular Science that had an article about the Vector bicycle that had just upped the human powered vehicle land speed record from 50 mph to 60mph. When we headed for Speed Week 1980, Ed bought some magazines to read on the trip. In the next year we did a lot of planning and scheming. As everyone knows, having a rule book is the first step on the road to perdition. Some one from SCTA/BNI gave me a current (1979) rule book. We met and talked with Al Teague, Rick and Nolan White, and the Vescos (had met Don previously through motorcycles). Everyone was very friendly and open.ĭon DeBring spent two hours with us going over all his stuff. We took rolls and rolls of pictures, talked to countless people, and thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. Though we were hardly wet behind the ears about the salt, we did what many veterans have done and still do today, WE DROVE ALL NIGHT. ![]() ![]() In early 1979, Ed came to me and said “Speed Week is next week, let’s go” So I put the canopy on my pickup and we headed for the salt. I asked, “What’s the 200MPH Club?” He replied “that’s when you set a record at over 200 MPH”. Ed told me one day, that he wanted to build a car and get in the 200 MPH Club and did I want to partner up. As a matter of fact, the first race of mine that Ed went to, he ended up hauling me to the hospital with a broken foot. I went to several of his races and he went to many of mine. In the next few years we became fast friends. The first time I went to his shop, I discovered a rear-engined sidewinder dragster that he had built and was experimenting with. I decided to meet him and see if I could persuade him to teach me to use his welder. I heard of a man that had moved into town (Brewster) who had such a machine. Induction: Kinsler Electronic Fuel Injection
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