(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – Third installment from coverage of the last Ohio Mile land speed meet.  Still no announcement of a new venue, but the ECTA folks are still searching and talking to sites in order to get us back to racing.  Our hope is that it isn’t so far away that we can’t make it to events.  We love land speed racing, but want the length to be at least a mile.  Kicking off the summary from this gallery is the drop-dead gorgeous ’66 Studebaker Commander of Larry Gibson.  Such a nice piece of machinery and it bested 150mph.

Next up is the ’49 Stude pickup wheeled by Russ Jones.  150mph in an old-school looking truck seems like it could be fun.  Car 7551 is a LS-powered, naturally-aspirated ’29 Ford Roadster looking like a lakester.  This thing screamed to a best of a tick under 185mph.  Nice.  Danny Allen ran his ’65 Chevy II wagon on drag week and it sees regular street duty propelled by a twin-turbo home-built LS2.  This was Danny’s first time to the LSR and he had to go through rookie orientation and step through the incremental speed runs to license.

The crusty wagon is missing a few components needed for the nod to run 200+ so his fastest lap was 178mph.  Mind you…..this was at part-throttle and pedaling it because it was blowing through the converter on the shifts.  There’s more in it and we have the photos and details to bring you a feature on it soon.  Enjoy.

442         MPS/F-1000/4    Syndee L. Martin                                  2003 Yamaha YZFR1         177.655

7212      A/F-750/4            Preston Dorfmeyer             2016 Magnum Engineering            148.2702

8881      B/GRS                         Larry G. Gibson             1966 Studebaker Commander     153.4265

9699      B/FMS                       Bud Stark                                Mazda RX7                            161.406

9343      AA/BFS                          David Nedock         Streamliner-1923 Ford Model T  198.8511

6300      B/MP                              Russ Jones               1949 Studebaker PU Truck             150.05

7551A   B/GRMR                        Kevin Cradduck        929 Ford Roadster                        184.8049

1123      B/GC                               Bob Larimore         1991 Pontiac Firebird GTA             187.8914

9453      APS/PBG-3000/4     David Williamson                                                                153.8988

9210      A/PF-3000/4             James Simonelli                  2009 Rolling Thunder        165.2589

5844      G/CPRO                Eric Deerwester                  1979 Porsche 924                       133.8091

4212      A/G-1350/4         Richard Dorfmeyer         2016 Magnum Engineering            158.9544

1253      M/TF-500/4         Matt Williams                1970 Honda CB450                            93.1099

8150A   XF/BFRMR             Ron San Giovanni, Jr.”                 1927 Ford Roadster          179.928

3671      C/BFALT                  Danny Allen               1965 Nova Wagon                               178.2884

9222      B/FCC                       Ernest Caissie           Dodge 2014                                             172.6784

588         M/PG-650/4        Graeme Adair                1969 Triumph TR6                              116.9135