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Puzzle #1202 - Betty Skelton driving a Corvette at Daytona Beach in 1956
« on: February 11, 2009, 04:27:42 AM »
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Re: Puzzle #1202
« Reply #1 on: February 11, 2009, 08:03:57 AM »
Corvette, but what's special? That I have no idea ;-)
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Re: Puzzle #1202
« Reply #2 on: February 11, 2009, 08:11:23 AM »
Could it be the EX87 V8 prototype?
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Re: Puzzle #1202
« Reply #3 on: February 11, 2009, 09:20:57 AM »
The "what car: part is easy; the rest of the posed questions is a bit more difficult.
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Re: Puzzle #1202
« Reply #4 on: February 12, 2009, 01:45:04 AM »
No idea about the driver, but judging from pics a friend of mine took the last couple years, I'd say that is at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah........



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Re: Puzzle #1202
« Reply #5 on: February 12, 2009, 04:02:45 AM »
After a very heavy rain, perhaps.  ;)

Nope, not the Salt Flats.
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Re: Puzzle #1202
« Reply #6 on: February 12, 2009, 10:24:01 AM »
I'm fairly certain it's Daytona Beach...
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Re: Puzzle #1202
« Reply #7 on: February 12, 2009, 12:16:30 PM »
Now you're getting somewhere...
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Re: Puzzle #1202
« Reply #8 on: February 12, 2009, 05:39:23 PM »
Long shot, but is it the V8 Corvette prototype?
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Re: Puzzle #1202
« Reply #9 on: February 13, 2009, 04:06:30 AM »
This was the second year not the first year production Corvettes had V8 engines.
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Re: Puzzle #1202
« Reply #10 on: February 23, 2009, 04:22:06 AM »
Moved
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Re: Puzzle #1202
« Reply #11 on: February 23, 2009, 06:55:31 AM »
This is Betty Skelton driving a Corvette at Daytona Beach in 1956, she set the land speed record for women at 145 mph.
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Re: Puzzle #1202
« Reply #12 on: February 23, 2009, 07:36:02 AM »
Correct!
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Re: Puzzle #1202 - Betty Skelton driving a Corvette at Daytona Beach in 1956
« Reply #13 on: February 27, 2009, 05:59:16 AM »
Here's a better look at Betty.


She also set records in, among other cars, one of the Ghia-built Dodge Firearrow cars. Betty Drove the Firearrow III (1954) - a 2-seater Sport Coupe, also called the Firebomb - to a clocked at 143.44mph at the Chrysler proving grounds.


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“I remember in 1954, one of the executives from the Dodge Division of Chrysler Corporation called me and asked if I would come to their new proving grounds in Chelsea, Michigan to take their new1954 Dodge concept car around the track to see if I could break some records." Skelton said. "When they picked me up at the airport they brought me immediately to the proving grounds in my high heels and party dress and asked me to take the car around the track.  I was a little unprepared being that I had not even unpacked my road gear but immediately rallied to the challenge and took the car around the track.  It handled so well I didn’t realize that there was any possibility of breaking a land speed record until they told me that I had averaged a 143.44 mph.” 
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Re: Puzzle #1202 - Betty Skelton driving a Corvette at Daytona Beach in 1956
« Reply #14 on: February 27, 2009, 06:32:40 AM »
Betty also set another land speed record for women at Bonneville in Art Arfons Cyclops with her run of 277.62 mph with a top speed of 315.72 mph in 1965.

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Re: Puzzle #1202 - Betty Skelton driving a Corvette at Daytona Beach in 1956
« Reply #15 on: February 27, 2009, 11:20:07 AM »
Gotta love fast women and fast cars!
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Re: Puzzle #1202 - Betty Skelton driving a Corvette at Daytona Beach in 1956
« Reply #16 on: February 27, 2009, 12:00:20 PM »
Fast car,
fast women.

EDIT: I'm not just repeating a mantra, I am trying to attach some pictures!
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Re: Puzzle #1202 - Betty Skelton driving a Corvette at Daytona Beach in 1956
« Reply #17 on: February 27, 2009, 03:33:26 PM »
Here they are.
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Re: Puzzle #1202 - Betty Skelton driving a Corvette at Daytona Beach in 1956
« Reply #18 on: February 27, 2009, 03:52:02 PM »
she's maybe not the most attractive, but the car obviousely likes her....
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