Projects Bonneville XF/GMR Build

outstanding photos
Thanks for sharing.
And thanks for actually using the car in competition.
Sometimes cars as beautiful as yours end up as display pieces. Some of my favorite pics of your car are the ones in which it is coated with salt debris after being run.
Keep it up.

 

Mike, I saw you at the Nugget "pit area" a couple of times and once while you were teching a roadster. You were pretty involved at the moment, so I just watched from afar. You did a killer job with the car. Hopefully, I can meet up with you next year. Either way, I have enjoyed the journey you have taken us on. Your videos are top notch and engaging. Thank You!

In your "drivers" video, I had the same thought you did when you first made it on the salt. My first trip was in '13. We were scheming the particulars on the way home, too. I haven't gotten my shit together yet, but I have been crewing since then.

 

Cover Girl!

 

How did the lack of rear suspension work out on the rough surface near starting line?

Joe

 

Got to see this beauty in its natural environment, ElMo! Even got to help push it to the line up to run. Such a nice, well constructed Hot Rod! It’s like watching a toddler take its first steps, where’s that guy going to go someday?!?!

 

A few shots from last weekend at El Mirage with the roadster. Looking forward to May

 

Great photos. Liking the COE push truck as well.

 

Class act!!!

 

Great sunrise shot right before the 4th round!

 

Mighty short driver in the push off photo and in all the years I’ve made time runs there since 1975 I’ve never seen that mountain!

 

Congrats @cornfieldcustoms you have fulfilled a goal and dream and the sky is the limit...you must be rightfully beaming inside...well deserved as you worked hard for it...What a class act and a incredibly beautiful Roadster.

 

Look what came in the mail today…..

What an honor, what a car!

 

Are you gonna be at El Mirage this weekend?

 

What kind of numbers did you run on the dirt?

 

Unfortunately, @cornfieldcustoms has not been here since November.

 

Mike will be there Thursday. He posted on FB.

 

That is a serious road trip from his place to El Mirage. He doesn't post much on FB either but he did post that he was getting ready to load the car in the trailer on Monday.
One route you go over the Rockies and the other you run through the heat and weather in the mid west will be a determining factor I'd have to think.

 

Rumor has it he’s on the lakebed. With the 20 mph ElMo HP he should do pretty good this weekend!

 

Sweet, I'll be there tonight.

 

He was out early playing in the dirt this morning. Word is that a number of racers are rolling in and getting their pits set up.

This was the photo he posted at sunrise this morning.

 

Got to see him run on Sunday right before we ran the WGB Roadster.

Here’s his able Crew Chief powering it up to fire off!

 

. . . so, what happened?

 

4510 got very dusty!

 

So, did it run?

 

Take the wind screen off ( it will help some) or install a naca duct behind the firewall on the top to pressurize inside the body.
It proves you don’t have the belly pan sealed good enough. Fine for Bonneville and pavement but not the surface at El Mirage…
The air going over the wind screen acts like a venturi sucking the fine alkalye dust from your front tires thru any minut gap or hole under the car…

Knowledge comes from many years of running there…..

 

Even got some swag! Thanks Mike, really hope you make it out in November.

 

Sure did El Mirage results 4510 XF/GMR 125.812

Autopower/Bean Bandits team results car 200 XF/ GMR speed 144.812 driver Gareth Watt club SDRC
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. . .and the record is still the great Jack Kelly's 149.791 29 years ago.

 

Autopower Bean Bandits team is getting closer it looks easy but its definitely not.
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