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Neal Nurmi
 Post subject: "The Road to Reno"
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This is an outstanding look at what it took to prepare a clean relatively stock P-51D to go to the Races and really seriously compete with the "Big Dogs". It's a great article.


http://www.aafo.com/hangartalk/showthre ... +Road+Reno


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A couple more Ridge Runner shots:


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I love the gun port covers made out of soup ladles! :lol:

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Great article!
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Lon Moer wrote:
I love the gun port covers made out of soup ladles! :lol:


That's a fairly common *mod* on P51's :)

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