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Originally Posted by bill dedman
I once overheard Bob Creitz tell a story about a couple of guys there in Tulsa who went out a short distance from town on a windy night with a couple of bottles of compressed gas (I think it was acetylene and maybe helium)... They had procured some weather balloons from the local airport, or Air Force armory...
They filled these balloons with the lighter-than-air gasses (highly flammable) and attached a slow-butning homemade fuse to each of them, and set them loose in the pitch-dark, early morning (2:00 a.m.) sky...
The wind carried them over Tulsa's downtown area before the fuses lit them off...
BIG excitement from the local mounties... LOL!
The perps somehow got caught and were properly chastised for their inventive fireworks...
I just thought it was a neat story... Drag racers with nothing to do... LOL! What is it they say about an idle mind???  |
Sounds like Bob. Not a lone incedent.
Between he and Bennie, they seem to know about everybody. Interesting and talented men. They can both do about anything. Sheet metal work, fabrication, build engines, etc. Don't see many like that anymore.
Guess you knew about Bennie towing to CA to match race Tom McKewen for a bath tub full of silver dollars? I think he might have used Bob's car for that one? I'll have to ask. He drove Bob's car at least once. I seem to remember it was that race. Maybe another. Last time Bob was in here we talked about the movie "World's Fastest Indian". Cool movie about the salt flats. He really likes that kind of racing now. He and Bennie are two interesting, cool guys to talk to. I had stockers when they had fuelers, but they never talked down to me. Just nice guys.