Re: [Amc-list] bonneville salt flat rambler???
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Re: [Amc-list] bonneville salt flat rambler???



on my trip to wabash Minn, thru Wi I came across an Avanti, just sitting 
there in a small country town, stopped to check it out ,owners gone, still 
thinking about it, beautiful car.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Greg Taylor" <amundaza@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "AMC/Rambler owners, drivers and fans." <amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2007 9:30 PM
Subject: Re: [Amc-list] bonneville salt flat rambler???


> Jim Lange has the fastest Stude at Bonneville and there is another one 
> very close second.  Both run over 200 MPH.  Jim's is a twin turbocharged 
> Stude 304 in an Avanti.
>
>  There is a possibility that Barney Navarro had really fast Ramblers at 
> Bonneville, but I don't fully recall.  He might have had the Indy Rambler 
> 196 turbo car there ... again, memory not too clear on that.
>
>
>  Greg Taylor :)  <><
>
> Garry Nordstrom <gasnordstrom@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  I have been told that a guy from Mankato Minn, set the record in a
> Studebaker at 130+ on the flats, a person from Winona Minn has the record
> for the flat headed ford, not sure of his speed, did talk to him, quite a
> motor
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "JOE FULTON"
>
> To: "AMC/Rambler owners, drivers and fans."
> Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2007 8:37 PM
> Subject: Re: [Amc-list] bonneville salt flat rambler???
>
>
>> There has been a 50s rambler at Bonneville for the
>> last few years. It's powered by a Ford flathead V8.
>> Unless you just want to play around and get bragging
>> rights as the fastest AMC/Nash powered car, you'll
>> probably have to use something other than an AMC/Nash
>> power plant to get any kind of a class record. I
>> recommend you buy the current SCTA rulebook and check
>> out the classes and the records in those classes. The
>> competition is pretty tough. They have been racing
>> for many years at Bonneville and there are dozens of
>> car builders who really know what they are doing.
>>
>> Joe Fulton
>>
>> --- d stohler wrote:
>>
>>> so, i have been running things thru my head again. i
>>> think i want to get this 65 classic put together
>>> good,
>>> maybe tinker around with a turbo, maybe a pair, and
>>> the goal of getting it out to bonneville. see how
>>> fast
>>> i can have a streetable rambler. ;)
>>>
>>> does anyone know of a rambler run at bonneville?
>>> would
>>> love to find info i can about it. maybe build the
>>> fastest bonnevile rambler? hehe. i think im dreaming
>>> again. (*SMACK* on the forehead to snap out of it)
>>>
>>> any opinions or thoughts??
>>>
>>> dave stohler
>>> http://picasaweb.google.com/das24rules
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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