Notes from Colin

Kudos from the Master! George Barris picked the roadster as his favourite car at the display!







(Barb...Here's what Colin's been up to, he sent this last Tuesday at 8.23pm and the temp over there was still in the high 90's.)

Weekend before last went to Stockton swapmeet, temperature was 104...hot but plenty of bargains.
Last week worked on top fuel car to replace the engine and blower due to the high C at the last meeting. Continued working on Dave's pickup.

Friday cruised to Sacramento Vintage Ford's car display to meet George Barris. He was very impressed with the roadster, checked it over, loved the headlights, grille etc, said he'd like to take it home with him! Humbling to be praised by the master!
Got my photo taken with Batgirl and the Batmobile!

Saturday Annual Fox Hunt at Sac raceway...our top fuel car versus jet car for a bit of fun. Jet car red lit, so fuel car won!
Evenings finale was the annual 'burndown'. This years target was the beautiful 1964 Dodge art deco motorhome we had been given. Bit of a mission getting it back to NZ, so took off all the good bits and donated it back to them for the burndown instead.

The motorhome was tied to the rear of the jet dragster, about 12 feet from it. The lights were dimmed and the jet lit up the night. The video footage I got of this is incredible. Totally demolished the motorhome with the jets afterburners. It got so hot the paint on the rear of the dragster blistered. It was chained about 20 feet too close!!
Once the jet ran out of fuel, the motorhome continued to burn out of control for another 10 minutes before the fire was contained. I have lots of footage of this for all to see.

Spent Sunday going back to Stockton to pick up 2 rebuilt 289 engines purchased at the swapmeet. Temp on Sunday was 106. Temp Monday was 109. We are in the middle of a heat wave.