The Avenger 12 - the Flame Breathers
“These salt flats are a favorite place for speed runs. Level as floors in all directions, extending for miles, the ancient shallow lake bottoms seem to have been designed by a tolerant Nature just to let speed demons have their precarious way.
To the eye, the run about to be made, so soon after The Avenger had dashed a glass of water from a dying man’s lips, didn’t look as if it would be an epochal event. The car being warmed up was of the best commercial make but was still standard. It was ...no special job, weighing many tons, with enormous tires and wheels, and streamlined to the last possible gasp. It was merely a big sedan. It had been tuned to the finest point of efficiency, and its tires were brand new and of the best racing variety. But these things weren’t noticeable.
A man, goggled and crash-helmeted, stood next to the car with the door open. With him was another man with a rifle slung in the hollow of his arm.
“I don’t get the idea of the gun,”MoreLess
To the eye, the run about to be made, so soon after The Avenger had dashed a glass of water from a dying man’s lips, didn’t look as if it would be an epochal event. The car being warmed up was of the best commercial make but was still standard. It was ...no special job, weighing many tons, with enormous tires and wheels, and streamlined to the last possible gasp. It was merely a big sedan. It had been tuned to the finest point of efficiency, and its tires were brand new and of the best racing variety. But these things weren’t noticeable.
A man, goggled and crash-helmeted, stood next to the car with the door open. With him was another man with a rifle slung in the hollow of his arm.
“I don’t get the idea of the gun,”MoreLess
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