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From left, Dave Archer in the cockpit of the 1961 Allis Chalmers D-19 with Chris Arnold and Shane Schalitz, Archer’s son-in-law’s brother, at the East Coast Timing Associaton in Blytheville, Ark., last week. Archer, 77, believes he will break a land speed record set by his daughter in 2018 in the tractor. (Photo Provided)
MARIETTA A Marietta man believes he can break a land speed record his daughter set in a farm tractor three years ago.
Dave Archer believes he would have exceeded 108.5 mph last week, but a head wind kept him to just above 100 mph last weekend at the East Coast Timing Association runs at Blytheville, Ark. The event is held at the former Eaker Air Force Base, from where B-52 bombers carrying atomic bombs were ready to strike the former Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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