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  • Originally posted by supercub View Post
    What's the story on the P38??
    That was the airframe that Frank Taylor took out of the Harrah's Car Collection. He was stripping it down for a rebuild at the time. Ended up going overseas to the Doug Arnold Collection for a few years and then coming back to Evergreen. I believe it has now been purchased and part of the Collings Foundation museum in Stowe. Click image for larger version

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    • Originally posted by Big_Jim View Post

      That was the airframe that Frank Taylor took out of the Harrah's Car Collection. He was stripping it down for a rebuild at the time. Ended up going overseas to the Doug Arnold Collection for a few years and then coming back to Evergreen. I believe it has now been purchased and part of the Collings Foundation museum in Stowe. Click image for larger version

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      When would this shot have been taken? It was a nice looking airplane...

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      • Originally posted by Jan View Post
        Dad and Eric and I really liked Dan as well. Great guy with a terrific competitive spirit.

        Reno 82' was rainy and chilly, and as Brad shows, it had a tough twist for Dan. At the start of the Silver heat on Saturday, Dan was fast, going hard to bump up into the Gold. He was leaving the all-Mustang field in the dust and was way ahead by the beginning of the first lap. But RR's race motor blew pretty comprehensively as he rounded the initial pylons.

        He maydayed and pulled up high over the course with some amount of fire around the engine and other problems. He wanted to put the airplane down on One-Four but was unable to make the runway and chose to try to set RR down on a dirt road. Soon after he touched down the airplane swerved and this was the result. Dan was fine fortunately. Ridge Runner was not.

        This is what it looked like shortly after the race finished. (John Tegler photo)
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        Great photo.There were not a lot of straight pieces of metal after that.

        Dan rebuilt the airplane pretty quickly, but did not return to racing for many years. When he did come back in the late 1990s, he came back with purpose -- the first real airframe modifications as well as serious engines. He went fast.




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        • Which eventually, years later still, led to Dan going Bear hunting...




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          • Ah, 2005. the lone Mustang against all those radials. If it wouldn't have broke I think he could have beaten the Bearcat that year.

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            • This is Dan before the Gold Race in 1997. Photo by Birgitta -- she was really good at this picture taking thing.

              So Dan has not raced for 15 years at this point. I suspect that he thought about Reno a lot during those 15 years.





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              • Wow. Not sure how I missed this thread. Amazing! Thanks to all the contributors. Love the gearhead details. I'd normally be driving to Reno about now, going through severe withdrawals...

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                • Here's a Sea Fury making a very low, stylish pass. It raced at Reno... I'm quite sure many of you know who this was. Tally ho!
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                  • Originally posted by Jan View Post
                    Here's a Sea Fury making a very low, stylish pass. It raced at Reno... I'm quite sure many of you know who this was. Tally ho!
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                    As my buddy Ralph used to call him...."Hyphen Baillie".

                    Or, as he referred to himself "a gentleman of leisure."

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                    • Yes, right as usual Brad... And OHB was one for the books. Dad really enjoyed gabbing with him. I take it you know about his T-33, CF-100, Sabre and Mustang (which he sadly perished in)....
                      Jan

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                      • Didn't he bring the first Sea Fury to race at Reno ??

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                        • No. In 1966, Lyle raced Mike Carroll's Sea Fury at Reno. It marked the first time a Sea Fury was ever raced in closed course pylon competition.
                          Jan

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                          • Another old one -- from 1977. Kerchenfaut and Crocker on the far right.



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                            • I don't think I've ever posted the red pickup truck, from 1977. Click on the image to see it a bit larger -- lots of cool detail and several classic raceplanes.




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                              • Originally posted by wingman View Post

                                I don't think I've ever posted the red pickup truck, from 1977. Click on the image to see it a bit larger -- lots of cool detail and several classic raceplanes.




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                                there's a lot going on in that picture, and I love every bit of it!! Who's red truck was it?

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