That sled lent a whole new meaning to the phrase "coming out hard"

Too bad I was never really sure what direction it was gonna go.

Hastings, MI, October '96

 

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Each one of the these is an old racing pic I found....and forgot still existed.  Enjoy!

Here's some really special ones.

  Glad I found 'em.....  RIP, Big Dan.  10/19/57-3/12/02   

You're sorely missed around here....and thought of.

Doin' one of his favorite things.  Cheatin' up a Rotax.

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See below....proof positive I'm getting stupid (er) and growing old, not up.

 

I have absolutely no idea what I was so interested in under the dash when this was taken.

Maybe it's my first "senior moment"......

 

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Hired gun at a nostalgia show.

this dragster belongs to a friend....two (count 'em, two) 500 cid Cadillacs.....

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Getting towed to the line.  I really needed a phone book or booster chair to set on....

The only thing I could see forward was lots of motors.

Mid-Michigan Motorplex.

Read it.

It's the reason for my success racing snowmobiles.  Period.   100%.

 

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"Mr. Twister" reading the computer.

Red has forgot more about making snowmobiles go fast that the rest of us will ever know.

Thanks, Red!

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I'll never have another racing toy that will come as close to paying it's own way as this one did.......

but damn, it was cold!

Houghton Lake, MI,  Tip-up-Town '97

 

The mighty 4 banger.  Too bad the engine shop (whose name's on the engine top) hosed me.

       

By the time I re-did it "right", I was so discouraged....and broke.... I sold it.  Disassembled, and never ran.  

Might have been a real monster.  Dyno ##'s were scary.  If I live to be a hundred, I'll never for get the unGodly sound it made at 10,200 rpm.  Made the hair on the back of your neck stand up.

For about the millionth time in my life, I (re)learned the lesson..."If you want it done right, you'd better do it yourself."

  

 

 

a friend that makes me look sane.....

E.J. Potter

They don't call him the "Michigan Madman" for nothing.

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EJ being interviewed....I'm actin' busy with a shop rag

Super Stock Reunion, Virginia Motorplex, July '99.

An absolutely GREAT pic I took there

Some more EJ pics and drivel

Even more

Even more yet

 

Way cool ’31 coupe.

Pics taken 8/11/09 at the Bonneville Salt Flats.

 

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