Louise Noeth

Listen to LandSpeed Louise on Cars YEAH

Recently, I spent a very entertaining 30 minutes with Mark Greene who drempt up a creative way to talk with folks who give energy to the automotive profession on every conceivable level and facet. His approach is fresh, the conversation lively so this was an easy, free-wheeling interview that I hope it will be as enjoyable for you while listening.  Mark asked for a variety of photos and chose the one of me driving an delicious Allard taken many years ago whilst zooming around a gymkhana on an active airport.         If you are inclined, have a listen. …

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READY LIKE TEDDY TELLS THE TALE FROM 100 YEARS OF BONNEVILLE SALT FLATS RACING

                    A century of speed has rolled across the famed Bonneville Salt Flats. Starting in 1914, with “Terrible” Teddy Tetzlaff, the velocity milestones are still rising, roaring and raging. The 2014 racing season brings Kaylin Stewart, a rookie 16 year-old teenager to the starting line determined to set a class record in excess of 200 miles per hour.  First-time racers at the Bonneville Salt Flats are affectionately called “salt virgins” because running on the panoramic sodium-soaked pancake always imparts startling insight about its many hidden difficulties. Every smarty pants who thinks …

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GOODGUYS GAZETTE DUMPS LANDSPEED LOUISE

It was an odd, yet unquestionably puzzling way that I discovered I had been fired. When the January 2015 Goodguys Gazette arrived and my name was gone from the masthead, a spot it been for more than 12 years, I finally got the message. My Fuel For Thought column and the occasional special features and photos were history. Emails had gone unanswered for months and phone calls were never returned. I should be livid, but I am only saddened by the reality that the one place the land speed racing community could count on reading something monthly about their marvelous …

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