As posted by Road and Track Magazine in February. A rare Ford GT 40 was discovered in a garage in California with Salt's name on the side of it. This is a really cool discovery, to bad the reporter didn't know much facts about Salt claiming he had little success in his racing career. And then went on to discuss his incarceration period finally claiming that Salt died shortly after being apprehended by the police. Not true... Wow, it appears anybody can be a writer/reporter now days.
Salt was the only racer to have raced champ cars, NASCAR and Unlimited Hydroplanes. He was the 1968 Calvert Cup Unlimited Hydroplane winner, 64 champ car starts, 16 top ten finishes, 3rd row qualifier at Indy and a 9th place finish at Indy in 1976.
To find out more about Salt get his book "For the race of Your Life" at www.etsy.com/shop/indybooknook.
If you go check out the article on r&T you will see me blowing up the autor who didn't even mention Salt even though there was a photo with his name on the door. I then went and emailed them a lengthy message which a short time later they came out with another article detailing the stuff I brought to their attention. They never wrote me back if I remember but it was nice to see them doing some basic journalism even if I was the one who told them the story for which you probably told me at doodles or one of the other nights I ran into you out and about. I still have the parts you gave my dad a few years ago, the magneisium knuckle being one of my most prized positions . I still want that jacket though!
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