About Salt-2-Salt Racing

The nearest approach to such a new drug - and how immeasurably remote it is from the ideal intoxicant! - is the drug of speed. Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure. True, men have always enjoyed speed; but their enjoyment has been limited, until very recent times, by the capacities of the horse, whose maximum velocity is not much more than thirty miles an hour. Now thirty miles an hour on a horse feels very much faster than sixty miles an hour in a train or a hundred in an aeroplane. The train is too large and steady, the aeroplane too remote from stationary surroundings, to give the passengers a very intense sensation of speed. The automobile is sufficiently small and sufficiently near the ground to be able to compete, as an intoxicating speed-purveyor, with the galloping horse. The inebriating effects of speed are noticeable, on horseback, at about twenty miles an hour, in a car at about sixty. When the car has passed seventy-two, or thereabouts, one begins to feel an unprecedented sensation - a sensation which no man in the days of horses ever felt. It grows intenser with every increase of velocity. I myself have never travelled at much more than eighty miles an hour in a car; but those who have drunk a stronger brewage of this strange intoxicant tell me that new marvels await anyone who has the opportunity of passing the hundred mark. At what point the pleasure turns into pain, I do not know. Long before the fantastic Daytona figures are reached, at any rate. Two hundred miles an hour must be absolute torture.

Aldous Huxley (1931)

In August of 2002, five of us went to Bonneville for Speed Week. It was so much fun we decided to return and run a 1953 Studebaker Champion with 185 CI Flathead Stude 6. The group grew and, in August of 2003, seven of us made the trek to Bonneville to do some more research. We'll be there with a car in August of 2004.

As of today, here is the list of "core" participants:

Eddie Bauer -- electrical contractor, Stude nut and hot-rodder. Waite Park edbauer@citescape.com

Joe Helm -- building material company supervisor, motorcyclist, hot rodder. St. Cloud joeh@simonson-lumber.com

Greg Meyers -- (h) 320-259-4794 (w) 320-229-4932 advo@comcast.net gearhead, Stude nut, web guy, big talker. Minnetonka

Mark Theisen -- 320-251-7343 320-363-4840 Ford46039x@aol.com auto repair shop owner, racer, fabricator. St. Cloud

Bob Waitz -- computer scientist, motorcyclist, bicyclist, Studebakerist. Hopkins bobwaitz@hotmail.com

We've also received a ton of help from:

Kirk Dickenson -- PanTowner, Rock City Rodder, and fixture at the MSRA. St. Cloud

Mike Balanger -- He knows which end of the welder to hold and where the on-off switch on a lathe is. He's also well known around the Viking Chapter of the Antique Motorcycle Club. St. Cloud

Daryl Newman -- Painter, air dam maker, body guy, rodder. St. Cloud

Mike Speidel -- Cars, Bikes, the Law -- he does it all. Denmark Twp.

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Individuals who expressed an interest in helping in one form or another:

Fred Case master mechanic, gearhead Minneapolis

Ron Thums radio show producer, gearhead, publishing Minneapolis

Sev Permann film production, journalism, gearhead St. Paul -- Wants to mount video cameras in the car to record the experience and gauge readings.

Ihor Yermolenko gearhead, master mechanic, Caddy and Olds drag racer Minneapolis ihor_yermolenko@hotmail.com

Alex Yermolenko mechanic/machinist, gearhead Minneapolis

Dave Schouweiler engineer, Ford big block historian, gearhead Minneapolis

Dave Hetherington former auto repair owner, all around rodder everywhere

Don Severson, Gearhead fabricator <desmodon@att.net>

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Motorcycle racers interested in a joint Bonneville venture:

Steve Hamel vintage motorcycle speed record attempt St. Paul

Victor Wancheena motorcycle publication publisher, motorcycle speed record attempt Minneapolis

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If you have other things to add to the list, let me know at advo@warpdriveonline.com