Dry Lakes Racers Australia

Remember Russell Wright at the salt a few years ago?
World Record 1955, Vincent Black Lightening outfit.

Here's news reel footage of the run and Pendine Sands efforts (an Avon tyres promo).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XjoExOo ... r_embedded

There is one of a model lying on a red tank. Couldn't help but notice that the tank is upside down and on stands
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...that's Art that is.

ABC Tuesday 23 March, 10:05PM AEST SALT is the story of photo-artist, Murray Fredericks on his annual solo pilgrimage to the heart of Lake Eyre in the remote north corner of South Australia. It is a piece on the personal journey of the artist, the creative process and the landscape itself. The image...

Grease-up first: Thanks Greg for your help and tireless efforts during the week. You’re a Champ! ...small thing. The path for crew vehicles getting to a race vehicle after a run on the timed track. Going through the middle of the pits is a slow crawl with stop-starts for dawdling foot traffic that s...

As long as yours doesn’t carry the name they gave that car: Death

Cripes, don’t mention Emu in front of Doc Goggs.
As Ben would say “yeah good one Stew… that was a bloody good car that Ovlov.”

That was me Grumm, editing my own post. Should have read the thread from the start, then I would have seen the answer to my question. That qualifies as Drongo

The road in from Iron Knob has some rain damage.

http://www.transport.sa.gov.au/quicklin ... /area3.asp

You gotta take this warning seriously, especially if it’s your first trip. Be prepared, drive carefully, and we’ll see you in one piece at the lake.

…and now, back to Doc and Johns car sale negotiations.

Hi Greg,
A large contingent come from Broken Hill area. Not sure when they leave for the lake. Stop in at the Silverton Hotel and ask any friendly face about the DLRA. Silverton is about 25k outside BH. Good Pub Grub, great place to stay.

I have zero experience with GPS units, so this might be a dumb question… just wondering about mountings for loan GPS units. If they’re given to the car/bike before a run, then returned straight after, that’s a lot of fix/unfixing. Do they work properly in a jacket pocket (thinking about bike riders ...

G'day John,
There'll be a few of us at the Island for the weekend
I'll be hanging around with the sidecars as well. #391, Suzuki GT 750, green with white faring.
We'll keep an eye out for you.

NO HELECOPTERS!

(they're more annoying than the flys)

...trying to find the web site with photos... Mrs Turk (Kieth's wife, apologies, can't remember her name) runs a Sprite, or MG. Very highly modified. They would be a very friendly and helpful couple to hook up with.

Latest New Scientist magazine has an article about the World Fastest LSR work that's going on at the moment. Covers the Bloodhound, The American Eagle, and Aussie Invader. Mostly it focuses on Andy Green and the technology in the Bloodhound, but the others get more than a token mention, with a few w...

Go Hawk!
The range of interesting machinery to come from that shed - ready to run each year - makes you one of the most talented and skilled builders that I know.