AUSTRALIA RACE ADVENTURE 2020
The Little Bastards racing team will be competing in The Dry Lakes Racing Assn of Australia’s Speed week on Lake Gairdner South Australia. The event will come off Monday 23rd of March and end 27th March.
The car leaves by container truck from my farm December 23 for the Aurora Airport. There it will unite with 2 containers containing Marlo Treit’s project 550 streamliner. At this site all 3 boxes will be fumigated and sealed.
Early January the containers will be shipped to a U.S. port and loaded for Adelaide, Australia.
Our crews will meet the racecars in Australia early March. The cars will be prepped at a shop in Adelaide and then shipped by container trucks 200 miles North via 2-laned blacktop, then gravel and then dirt to the edge of the giant salt lake. The crews will stay in a converted sheep-shearing shed and or tents in the racers camp. Both facilities are crude but have running water, showers and toilets. The area – desert – could be very hot and crawling with strange animals of the Australian outback.
Food water and cold beer will be available at the lakeside. And the camaraderie of Aussies who are known to be friendly, fun, funny, and damn good beer drinkers.
Our car, a blown Ardun-headed flathead powered lakester will run on a record of about 220 mph. This mark should be very achievable providing we don’t have a catastrophic mechanical failure of some kind. We’ve packed every conceivable extra part that can bolt to the car and motor. We will not be taking an extra motor. (Scroll left-right to view her closeup nose-to-tail.)
