| I guess it all started a few years ago when Terry Engle asked if I had ever been to Bonneville? Almost all of us has a dream of going to the Salt Flats someday I think and most all hot rod shops have at least one picture of the salt hanging in their shop. Terry shamed me into going in 2002 and I plan on going every year from now on!
It's just that neat! The weather is great (maybe windy and wet some days) but really usually pretty nice, the people are very laid back and the entire scheme of the event is pretty casual.
As an Indianapolis Indiana Fuel Injection Service shop owner on Gasoline Alley many of my local friends are metal fab shops that support various forms of racing. After a couple trips to the salt I knew we had to have a car and go to race. Donnie at DB's (another fab shop close by) had a 1949 Ford F-100 and we sat down one evening and looked at the rule book knowing where a couple of modified flathead motors were laying around and the idea started from there.
The idea of a group racing adventure for the XF (flathead ford) PP (production pickup) was born.
Jim Linder
Linder Fuel Injection
Gasoline Alley Shops |
