In his spare time, Dave rebuilt engines (like the one in my ’36 Pontiac), raced snowmobiles, taught Ford techs in Dearborn, Michigan, competed in the Great American race, served three combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, again returned to teaching and started a “Beat the Heat” kids-versus-cops drag racing program for Fox Valley Technical College students and local high school kids.Įarplugs allowed Sarna to keep tuning the engine while other crew members covered their ears as Dave didn’t stay in the advertising business very long and ultimately went back to sharing his automotive technology skills with students at Fox Valley Technical College ( ) in Appleton, Wisconsin. We met when he briefly left teaching to sell magazine advertising. His terse statement was the start of a journey that exactly five months later would have me lying under a Pontiac Firebird in Northwestern Utah helping a bunch of old hot rodders and about a half-dozen “Gearheads Under 30” rebuild a rear axle on the Salt! “You’re going to Bonneville with me!” Sarna said. Munro was 68 and riding a 47-year-old machine when he set his last record in 1967. On the label was a picture of actor Anthony Hopkins and the logo of the movie “World’s Fastest Indian.” That film tells the story of New Zealander Burt Monro who set records with an Indian motorcycle at the Bonneville Salt Flats in the 1960s. Let’s Join Some Young and Older Motorheads There.ĭAVE SARNA WALKED into my office last May and threw a DVD case on my desk. Ap| By John Gunnell The Lure of Driving Flat Out at Bonneville Is a Strong One.
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