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Fun #85 - D/Sports Corvette with Kurtis frame by Jack Lufkin & Denny Jones
« on: November 23, 2011, 03:36:01 AM »
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Re: Fun #85
« Reply #1 on: November 30, 2011, 06:02:52 AM »
Experts?
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Re: Fun #85
« Reply #2 on: December 07, 2011, 03:54:33 AM »
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Re: Fun #85
« Reply #3 on: December 07, 2011, 05:06:32 AM »
Bonneville Salt Flats car?
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Re: Fun #85
« Reply #4 on: December 07, 2011, 05:30:29 AM »
This car did compete at Bonneville, and other venues.
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Re: Fun #85
« Reply #5 on: December 11, 2011, 08:37:58 AM »
This is an educated guess...John Lufkin with a 1962 Corvette, two-way average speed of 204.248 at the 1964 Bonneville Speed Weeks.
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Re: Fun #85
« Reply #6 on: December 13, 2011, 08:04:39 PM »
Bump..
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Re: Fun #85
« Reply #7 on: December 14, 2011, 03:54:52 AM »
Right you are


"SCTA's 15 annual speedfest. Fastest D/Sports car was this Corvette with a Kurtis frame, built by Jack Lufkin and Denny Jones. Best one-way speed of 193.441; best two-way run of 187.659"
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