The Tardel-McKenzie roadster is back in the record books!

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Larry McKenzie backed up Saturday's qualifying run of 165.068 mph with a record run this morning of 167.873 mph for a new two-way-average record of 166.470 mph!

Mike

[Roothawg]

WoooHOOO!!!!!! Good news!

[Slag Kustom]

congrats on the run http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

[jerry]

way to go guys!


jerry

[SamIyam]

Cool!

That's absolutely bitchen' news mike!

I bet they are stoked... what was the record before??

Sam.

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161.895 mph.

[QQMOON]

GOOD ON YA Let me shake your hand and pat your back congrats
JR

[Boyd Who]

Fantastic, Mike! Congrats to the team!

[Smokin Joe]

So, when they gonna run the lounge chair? http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
See my Bonneville pictures post. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

Now THIS is a flathead!
http://images6.fotki.com/v97/photos/2/213943/1235867/IMG_1234-vi.jpg

[av8]

SJ -- There are racing classes for barstools, lawnmowers, garden tractors -- why not racing loungers? http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[Dreamweaver]

AWESOME!!!!

[burndup]

So whats the record for a blown, flathead, gas, lawnmower?

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

[av8]

Not sure what it is. Like the HOP UP 100-mph Club for flahead four-bangers, it would fall into one of those not-quite-officially sanctioned areas.

Follow up on the Tardel-McKenzie car and the new record . . .

I talked to Vern Wednesday and he sounded good and well relaxed. Several years of blowing up and burning down some good hardware kicked the stuffins' out of all of us, and the Salt owed the team a Speed Week like this one. In spite of the limitations of the old mag the motor was able to pull up to about 5800 rpm. Larry had a trap speed of 168 on a new qualifying run on Monday but he experienced a lot of wheel spin, as he had on the earlier qualifying and record runs as well. The answer is a simple one -- more ballast, and with no practical way to add it at Bonnevile, they packed up and headed home with the record in hand once again!

Speed Week '05 work begins next week when the car comes apart for cleaning and inspection. It's also the time for changes and modifications to be discussed and planned for. The Flatliners team will be back next year with blood in their eye, trying to recapture the record from Tardel-McKenzie once again. Flatliners spent most of Speed Week '04 improving their XF/BGMR record, and once they'd done that they planned to switch to fuel and recapture the record from Tardel-McKenzie before leaving the Salt. But, life is what happens while you're making plans, and Flatliners wasn't able to pull it off. In fact, according the run lists, they made no fuel-class runs. They're a good bunch and very tough and smart competitors so Speed Week '05 will be as challenging for both teams as was '04.

I want to add an important footnote to this post about the Tardel-McKenzie roadster lest it be forgotten, and that's the fact that this wonderfully behaved LSR racecar was built by Keith Tardel. Keith hasn't been involved in the racing effort for the past three years because he's been incredibly busy building his own business, and as a result his name and his contribution are not always linked to the car as they should be.

Speed Week '05 . . . don't delay, plan now to be there. I will, for sure.

[Digger_Dave]

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Follow up on the Tardel-McKenzie car and the new record . . .

I talked to Vern Wednesday and he sounded good and well relaxed. Several years of blowing up and burning down some good hardware kicked the stuffins' out of all of us, and the Salt owed the team a Speed Week like this one. In spite of the limitations of the old mag the motor was able to pull up to about 5800 rpm. Larry had a trap speed of 168 on a new qualifying run on Monday but he experienced a lot of wheel spin, as he had on the earlier qualifying and record runs as well. The answer is a simple one -- more ballast, and with no practical way to add it at Bonnevile, they packed up and headed home with the record in hand once again!

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Ahh .. now I know why I couldn't find them near the end of the week!

Sitting at the 4 mile mark, the car sounded like it was "in full song" as it sailed by!

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So be there. I will, for sure.

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If you have been following N'49 results, you already know the frustrations the gang went thru. We needed that last little "poofteenth" (as carps would say) to "crack" the magic 200 MPH mark, but .. maybe next year.

BTW, Mike your buying the first lemonaide when I get there!? http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[whodaky]

Well done guys, all the hard work and set backs, pale into insignificance when the car goes well and to take the record is just icing on the cake. I know it was for us when whenWayne drove our car to the record here. Mike Davidson got that record back this year. But that is just the way it goes, records are meant to be broken. Our car is now semi retired. Geoff aka Whodaky Rea Weir Mumford # 24

[Southfork]

Well, if Keith built the LSR racer, who built the 26 roadster pickup with the gorgeous flathead that shared the pit tent with the LSR? That is one fine ride!

[Southfork]