New Score Dees, President Of The 200Mph Club, The Ferrari Club, A Patch Speed Racer, Together With Pullman Auto Restorer, Writer Of The Definitive Mass On The Miller Race Cars The Miller Dynasty

One problem, he did his query on the computers of the day, the early on 90s. So, 5" floppies amongst a Tandy PC . And he died (Dec '96) amongst a password protection on his computer, as well as at that topographic point yous stimulate got it... all his run on what mass he was working on at the fourth dimension irretrievable

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He was a grad of Stanford inward '58, as well as and thence metropolis attorney for Inglewood, as well as a fellow member of the Super Fours Dry Lakes club, as well as wrote "The Miller dynasty: Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Technical History of the Work of Harry A. Miller, his Associates, as well as his Successors" inward 1981, the effect of twenty years' research, as well as interviews (with Miller's surviving associates as well as his successors) as well as exclusive access to Miller's working drawings


Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 dissimilar breed altogether is the writer who has achieved an enduring reputation past times virtue of merely ane book.  In fact, a number of the best books always autumn into this category, notably the latterly revised as well as reissued The Miller Dynasty, written past times Mark L. Dees http://www.motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/september-1994/79/starting-motor-racing-library

If yous expect at the HRM coverage of Bonneville inward '69 yous larn the impression that the B/GR as well as B/FR battle betwixt Mark Dees as well as Peek Brothers was ane of the to a greater extent than banker's complaint worthy things of the week.
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In the mid 80s he fix a Vintage Oval Track bird at Bonneville as well as needed additional participants. So he contacted Gordon White, racing historian as well as Smithsonian Institute auto racing advisor, as well as Gordon's Offy powered Kurtis midget had won the Antique Automobile Association's Grand National First Prize inward 1986 as well as of class everyone asked, "How fast volition it go?"  Gordon took the Kurtis to Bonneville inward '87, '88, as well as '89. He as well as thence bought the 1928 Miller Packard Cable Spl. #18 as well as wrote vii books on the history of auto racing inward the U.S., including the storey of the Offenhauser engine, a biography of Frank Kurtis, books on Harry Miller, Kurtis' Indianapolis cars, 'Lost Race Tracks' as well as a biography of Ab Jenkins.
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Ken Gross when writing Hot Rod Milestones: America's Coolest Coupes, Roadsters, as well as Racers  had a give thank yous you note, as well as included Mark amid the around recognizeable names inward hot rodding. He said: "I'd also similar to give thank yous half dozen departed, rattling knowledgeable friends: the slowly Dean Batchelor, Mark Dees, Gray Baskerville, Ray Brock, Tony Nancy, as well as Tom McMullen, all of which encouraged my interest. I'll never forget them."


Having preserved the Miller tape inward considerable detail, Mark Dee’s identify unit of measurement heirs passed his collection of Miller photos on to White as well as along amongst the slowly Bob Sutherland, they made him the archivist of the surviving Miller drawings, around of which were drawn past times Miller’s long fourth dimension applied scientific discipline accomplice as well as draftsman Leo W. Goossen as well as and thence built past times the 3rd fellow member of the squad Fred Offenhauser. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 veritable gilt mine of prewar racing as well as applied scientific discipline pattern genius, the archives stand upward for a historical treasure of immeasurable value.

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inward the Hot Rod Reader, Mark wrote inward chapter 8, What is Bonneville, How to locomote racing at Bonneville

He also wrote "A Technical History of the Racing Flathead,"

Among his parts collection were Halibrand rims from the Mickey Thompson/ Bill Burke Punmpkin Seed Bonneville car

New for Speedweek inward 1962 was the Mark Dees as well as Mike Scott built Class D Streamliner entered nether the refer Mark Dees-Racer Brown. The slippery front end bicycle crusade machine was powered past times a 180" Pontiac Tempest 4-banger as well as was built to stimulate got Bill Burke's Pumpkin Seed tape of 205.949 mph laid inward 1960 amongst a Bill Stroppe prepped Falcon-6 for power.

The practiced tidings was the machine made it to the tabular array salt merely a footling slowly as well as unpainted. The bad tidings is at that topographic point were to many bugs to run out thence no speeds were recorded. It's interesting to banker's complaint that Scott built the trunk off a buck as well as and thence a chassis was constructed to fit inside it.

Mark was dorsum amongst the machine inward '63 as well as exclusively managed to run a dull 134.12 mph against the right away 222.791 mph tape laid past times the Vesco boys the twelvemonth before. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 concluding ditch endeavor amongst the machine inward '64, right away amongst a 470" Chrysler as well as running inward Class B, resulted inward a quick 237.78 mph run but was non quick plenty to jibe the Hammon-McGrath-Whipp Redhead bird tape of 302.812 mph.
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(1972 article inward Car as well as Driver)
Many of the racers were convinced that all their honest endeavor had succeeded inward preserving the Salt Flats. Jerry Jones is the President of the SCTA which sanctions Speed Week. He says, "We talked to Governor Rampton, we've seen the University studies, as well as yous tin locomote expect at the steel poles that are sunk inward the Salt out past times the start. They stair out the depth of the salt, as well as they haven’t changed inward 5 years. It's all the same every bit deep every bit it always was. It merely migrates inside the basin from surface area to surface area inward dissimilar years."

Mark Dees, uses these 2 U.S. of A. Geological Survey aerial photographs to nation his representative against Kaiser. The left photograph was taken inward 1953, the correct inward 1970. In both, the dotted line of piece of occupation indicates the Twenty-Five Mile Trench of Kaiser, patch the enterprise line of piece of occupation indicates the outer border of the shrinking Salt Flats. Jones’ complacent mental attitude is non shared past times all the racers. Mark Dees is president of the prestigious 200 M.P.H. Club. He has locomote something of a monomaniac on the status of the Salt, but he also has factual data to back upward his case.

 One of the around telling pieces of bear witness is a twosome of aerial photographs taken past times the U.S. of A. Geological Survey. One was taken inward I953 every bit business office of Project 121, as well as the other inward 1970 every bit business office of projection GS-UCMV. As Dees says, “These photos clearly exhibit that the incredible actinic whiteness of 1953 has given means inward 1970 to a blotchy surface area of reduced size, indicating that the thickness of the tabular array salt has been materially reduced as well as the Flats themselves are beingness pulled in.‟ On-site observation makes this obvious to anyone who was at that topographic point inward the one-time days. How could it endure otherwise, when Kaiser pumps away thousands of tons of tabular array salt solution every year."

THE BONNEVILLE OUTRAGE. Written past times Rich Taylor, for Car as well as Driver magazine, 1972,
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Mark owned a 1916 Pullman Heavyweight someone car, ex-San Joaquin as well as Eastern RR concern machine "San Marino," ex- Southern Pacific "Del Monte" #107 (both Huntington roads) 1927-1978, sold to Mexico, returned as well as rebuilt inward Texas, bought past times Dees as well as renamed "San Marino" again. Still has master copy 1916 forest interior. He also owned ex-UP Lounge machine "City of St Louis" #9011 (dome observation car), which became ex-Auto Train nightclub machine that he renamed "Lionel," as well as ex-CP 4210 baggage machine that could charge automobiles through terminate doors, as well as had 4 built-in bunks for crew sleeping quarters, renamed "Pony Express."

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