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Re: Landjet for President 1 Saabers Like This Post! Posted by Landjet [Email] (#16) [Profile/Gallery] (more from Landjet) on Wed, 1 Feb 2017 21:54:39 In Reply to: Landjet for President, Al, Wed, 1 Feb 2017 13:40:24 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
I would have voted my car for President too, but it was born in Sweden, and I thought you had to be born in the USA to be the CIC. You see, the name Landjet is the car's name, the flagship originally born in 1973, then passing the flag onwards to the current ship, a 1981 turbo 900. My cars tell me what to write and how to write the words, so I'm just a ghost writer in reality. The car tells me to pay the bills, feed the beast, and so forth and so on. I'm just here to tend the deck, sails, and engine room. No frolicking in this fleet, it's all business, pleasure is for the passengers. Nothing to see here ladies and gentlemen....move along please.
OK, so once again, my thanks especially to Saabnet members RogerD and Blacksheep for attending and helping while at the Great White Dyno ( Salt Flats ). I tricked RogerD into starting the car in the pits, and moving it, while an inspector with a million tatoos was watching, he lit up like potassium in water, and promptly informed RogerD that the racecars are not to be driven in the pits, and dressed him down pretty good.......I'm over under the tent, lips pursed, exploding with held back laughter. I guess that's what called 'punkin' somebody. After a week on the salt, the dehydration sets in, things get weird, then the weird turns pro........
Extra special thanks goes to my wife for putting up with all of us, my crew chief, and my driving partner who shares 17 records ( a record in and of itself ) at the Ohio Mile. So, I guess we really have 19 records then if you could the record of having records.
The best story of the entire week was when we rolled back to impound from the successful qualification run, a guy on a bicycle comes over and asks for me. After we greeted each other, I found out he was an announcer from the radio tower at Bonneville -- I had given the other announcer the story board of the car, History of Saab Racing, so the fellow wanted to help make some corrections to the history list on the story board. I grabbed the original board, handed him a magic marker and said "by all means, go ahead and make the corrections". He methodically went through the list of late 70s and early 80s Saab road racing in America facts and corrected the entries, added names, in general fixed what was wrong with the SCCA facts. I asked him to sign the story board as all the other Bonneville volunteers signed along with the vendors, contributors, etc., and he signed it Ron Christensen. So, I look at the corrected names on who WON the SCCA runoffs at Road Atlanta, and it was Ron Christensen. Good lord, I thought, this is the same guy, so I said .... "you are Ron Christensen".......and....I was right.
In summary then, the radio announcer at the Bonneville Salt Flats was a Saab 99 and 900 road racer who won the annual Runoffs, the equivalent to winning the Indy 500 in the SCCA world.
That was the second of the three significant Saab formal coincidental happenings at Speed Week.....the other two stories will have to wait for another time......
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