The pictures of our trip are online now at:
http://www.salt2salt.com/phpix3/index.php?album=Bobs+Bonneville+2006&dispsize=&s
tart=0

(If the link doesn't work, go to www.salt2salt.com, click on the link
to Photo Gallery then select Bobs Bonneville 2006)

I took over 250 photos during the week we were there.  I'll start
typing up the illustrated version of the story tomorrow night and will
probably add a few things to it in coming weeks as pictures from the
other team members trickle in.

Greg left immediately for Philly to drop his daughter off at college so
I won't have his pictures to post for at least a week.  I will get
together with the rest of the guys to clean out the car and trailer on
Wednesday and I'll take a few pictures of that as well. As an aside,
I'll be taking a close look at the stuff we painted with POR15 and
Eastwood's Corroless (which they now call Rust Encapsulator) to see how
well they did.

The trip was really great.  As Greg mentioned we made 9 passes which
exceeds the total of all we made in our first two years going out
there.  The car ran very well.  The 86 MPH run mentioned earlier was
mine.  After I made a pass at 127.789 we richened it up a little and
dialed the boost up a quarter turn.  This was expected to put us over
130 but when I left the line, the engine kept cutting out.  I could see
that the GPS was only reading in the 80's as I entered the first timed
mile so I decided to pull off rather than possibly damage the motor.
We first thought that since the fuel had run a little low and was
sloshing away from the pickups.  The next run, with Mark behind the
wheel proved that was not the case.  The car ran the same with a full
tank.  We leaned it out and we went right back into the 126 MPH range.
We made the class change from XO/BGC to XO/FALT (and changed numbers
from 4594 to 1594) between my runs and Mark's runs.

We were very happy with how our car ran but terribly dissapointed with
the troubles that Dave Bloomberg and Jim Lange had.  Those guys are our
heros and we really wanted to see them do well.  I haven't read all the
notes here so I don't know what has been reported but Jim bent a couple
of valves and Dave broke his crankshaft.  Dave did make the 200 MPH
club though, driving the Panterra Kid.  We all wished it had been in a
Studebaker, though!  It was particularly hard for us because both Jim
and Dave said they are retiring from Bonneville.  We hope that we're
still running in a couple of years when they decide to make a comeback
tour!

I'll post a note when the full story appears on our website.

Bob