Tuesday, August 18
Back up for the 6:00 am trip to the impound area and the 7:00 am back up run. Kenny really pushed it this time going 172.039. The average of his two runs bumped that record up nearly 7 mph. I told you he was a lead foot.
Don took a run in the afternoon and also ran just over 172 mph. Marilyn also had one more run that afternoon and went 163+ WOW!!! Once her run was over the team decided we had done about everything we wanted to do and were ready to shut the operation down. Don began talking about his next engine for the Nissan – something about needing to go over 200 mph again.
After a good night’s sleep we headed back out to the salt to pack up – not a small task I might add. Since Don has decided to be done with the Buick Straight 8, we put a little “For Sale” sign on the engine as we were packing up. Come to find out a team down in the pits from us blew up their straight 8 the day before. Don went to talk to their engine guy – yippee – he is definitely interested. We will see about that later.
posted by Jane and Don McMeekin @ 7:58 PM
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