Dick Knorr, from  Summerland, BC, passed away April 13, 2022  after a battle with cancer. He was 76 years old. Dick has always been a "car guy", and has been involved with various car clubs and events since he was a young man. He always had a love for inline engines, and one of the items on his bucket list was to go to Bonneville and go 200 mph. From his drag race days he had always liked Opel GT's, the poor man's Corvette, and  in 1999 he found a 1970 Opel GT in Washington state, and his Bonneville project got started. He wanted to power his car with an inline 6, and chose the 250 ci, OHC Pontiac engine which was just right for the E/GMS class.  The first year with the car on the salt was 2001, and the Black Opel race team, headed by Dick, went 154 mph on a 202 mph record. After a few years, and a few blown up Pontiac engines, Dick felt the engine had gone as fast as it was going to go at 185 mph. In 2005 Dick decided on GM's new Atlas series engine with DOHC, 4 valves per cylinder, and at 254 ci, still fit the E/GMS class. The engine was new, so there was not an over abundance of speed equipment available for it so everything had to be made , or special ordered. In 2007 the  race team went to B'Ville with the new engine. From there it took until Speedweek of 2012 to finally break the 202 mph record at 208.974 mph to get the Black Opel team in the record book with Frank Kinney behind the wheel.

  Dick,   Inliner #1573, along with Lance Brown started in 2006 to organise the Can West chapter of Inliners International, and since then the chapter has varied in numbers, but remains an active chapter of Inliners International. Dick was inducted into the Inliners "Hall of Fame" in the summer of 2022.