It was, as ever, a chronicle of tremendous effort, agonizing victory, and ever more agonizing defeat - and it went down in the books as the year of ...The Changing Times.
Photos: Don Sliger, a consummate home-brew engineer, laced two killer-engines into an inflexible frame and went 203 mph; Robert Thomas' supercharged 100-inch Sportster; Cast rear wheel of the big Sportster carries a typical Salt sprocket; Another machine of boundless potential - Rick Vesco's supercharged 'liner.; The price of performance - Leo Payne's engine went lean, burned a valve; Old Bonneville campaigner Don McEvoy's Triumph double - went 198, blew up;
Also included is article titled, "Who the Hell is Don Vesco?" - thus read last year's T-shirts, when Don's reputation for genius was only as long as your arm. Since then he has tuned for World Champion Kel Carruthers ("I should have been doing this all along!"), collected a pocketful of 350cc AMA speed records, and recently he has shattered the 4-year motorcycle land speed record with a drop-tank streamliner powered by a pair of Yamaha 350 engines running on pump gasoline, having endured a heart-stopping 252 mph crash a month before the attempt. Look at this year's T-shirts. See the Superman emblem?
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