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    Cummins to the top!...

    ...Of Pike's Peak...And it even did it carrying the carcass of a Ford with it......Ben
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    Pikes Peak was a much better race before they paved it all the way to the top.......

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    Quote Originally Posted by Phillbo View Post
    Pikes Peak was a much better race before they paved it all the way to the top.......
    Amen. Even driving on it back in the 70's was a fun excerise.
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    Cummins supplied the power, but it took a Ford to haul it to the top! Without the Ford, the Cummins would just rock back and forth on the ground making a hell of a racket.
    The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible - Arthur C. Clarke

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    Quote Originally Posted by FredK View Post
    Amen. Even driving on it back in the 70's was a fun excerise.
    I raced it in '78 on a modified Harley Davidson Flat Track bike.... It did not go so well... Can't remember exactly but I finished low in my class. One time deal though.

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    I remember seeing Pike's Peak from a distance when I was stationed in Colorado for USAF tech school...I never got any closer though...Another missed opportunity......Ben
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    I need to see that someday. Just haven't gotten around to it.

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    Didn't race it just drove up it. Was a some what interesting time on the dirt road. Saw Denver in the distance and surrounded by smog and said I ain't moving there.
    Fred

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    Um, do you have windows in your home in AJ? Want a good view of that Phx smog.

    We have some diesel nuts here but they go to bonneville.
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    Yeah the inversion can be bad but I'm glad to live in the foothills slightly above it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by CactusCurt View Post
    ...but they go to bonneville.
    And, this is the time of year to do it. The Salt Flats dry out just enough near Wendover.

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