Sorry Charlie but I didn't make it. A lot of my friends went Friday and stay pretty late and my wife and I had plans. Saturday afternoon and early evening we were invited to test our 1/2 mile dirt car at Perris Speedway with 4 sprint cars and just couldn't turn that down. 50 + hard laps with suspension adjustments was hard to pass up. I almost came Sunday knowing the rain would keep attendance down. The Firebird I help was orange and white. Jim Loving owns it. He's about 6'5" and hard to miss and was next to the Ferguson Liner. I see you were placed by Bob Stahls VW... Another great guy. Hope you had fun. Don't know when I will run next year. May is out because we are racing at Perris. The June meet Patrick and I are doing patrol all day. JD

56 Vic, B'Ville 200 MPH Club Member, So Cal.

We sure enjoyed ourselves at the Grand National Roadster Show in Pomona, CA this weekend.  There were lots of great cars and quite a few very nice entries with Y-Blocks.  I had a chance to visit with members of this group who were also at the show.  Keith "Landspeedy" was there with a booth promoting his "Rolling Bones" shop, Chuck "MoonShadow" came with him and helped tow a car, really good friends Todd "BIGREDTODD" and of course Tim McMaster "mctim64".  I'm sorry I didn't get to see you JD "DryLakesRacer", I did see a few Firebirds, but didn't know which one belonged to your friend.  There were lots of people asking questions about landspeed racing and quite often there were those who were looking at the truck, then at the engine, and then back to the truck while scratching their heads.  It was great to see John Baechtel and his wife Annie (see picture).  John is the website owner of www.hotrodenginetech.com (a must see) and the person who wrote the last story on the race truck. If you have not taken the time to read this article, he did a great job and the link is his website (see above, just scroll down the featured articles in the upper right and you will see the truck).  His credentials are very creditable as he spent almost 20 years as an editor of both Car Craft and Hot Rod magazines.  During that time he supervised and built a never ending stream of project cars and test engines.  He also speaks my language, as he is a member of the 200 mph club at Bonneville with a car he built and still owns today.  The well known hotrodder Ed Iskenderian also came by, he really is into Y-Blocks.  A picture was also a must with him, Tim McMaster and Tim's wife Kathy.








Charlie Burns Laton, Ca (South of Fresno)



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Excellent article Charlie and WELL deserved accolades!!!  

I love the smell of burning rubber in the morning!

Thanks, Ian, I hope all is well down under.  Hi to the family please.

Charlie Burns Laton, Ca (South of Fresno)



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Great read. Best of luck this year Charlie. Hope we can catch up again sometime in the future.

I have seen this article link on quite a few websites and face book pages including a post here. What I haven't done is properly thank the person responsible for the write up. He is John Baechtel and he is the man behind the media group website of HotRodEngineTech.com. His former editor status is for Car Craft and Hot Rod magazines. We have been trying to finish this piece for a couple of years now, just waiting for the weather and opportunity to allow my first run in the truck. And run it did. Posting the new speed and the effort to get this race car on the track is the theme of the story. If you catch the underlying message that even the "little guy" can have success, then you get the reason for the article. The message is also clear that the Y-Block is not to be forgotten anytime soon.  Thanks so much John................

If you care to read the article, here is the link. http://hotrodenginetech.com/

Charlie Burns Laton, Ca (South of Fresno)



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Good for you and Tim. One of the guys I help, Jim Loving, has been invited to display his Firebird in the SCTA display also. I'm glad to see them using some of the "little" guys in land-speed as well as the others most know that compete. Hope to see you there . . JD

56 Vic, B'Ville 200 MPH Club Member, So Cal.

well congrats then, You and Tim will be great representatives for both categories.

Gary Ryan San Antonio.TX.

The Rolling Bones crew will be there too. And it looks like I'll be with them. Little Y-Block reunion. Chuck

Y's guys rule!
Looking for McCullouch VS57 brackets and parts. Also looking for 28 Chrysler series 72 parts. And early Hemi parts.

MoonShadow, 292 w/McCulloch, 28 Chrysler Roadster, 354 Hemi)
Manchester, New Hampshire

Thanks Gary, the yellow paint and the turbo Y Block will have a chance to be seen at the Grand National Roadster Show in Pomona.  The show is January 29 thru 31 this month and it is an honor to be selected as one of the participants.  It is not to be in competition as it is far from being a show car.  It will be one of the representative vehicles in a landspeed display.  For sure mine will not be the only Y-Block powered vehicle there.  Among others will be Tim McMaster's Model A sedan (in the Suede Palace I believe) and his Unibody also in the landspeed display. 

Charlie Burns Laton, Ca (South of Fresno)



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