No kidding! It's a smaller world than we think.
Gordon Glasgow
Renton, WA
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net
> [mailto:owner-datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net]On Behalf Of
> CalSpeed@aol.com
> Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 9:17 PM
> To: datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net
> Subject: Chance meeting with Roadster Racer...
>
>
> Funny story while I was driving south on Hwy 101 from Solvang to Los Angeles.
>
>
> I was cruising down the highway minding my own business in my 2000 when this
> guy pulls up to me and starts yelling out his window. When we were both
> slowed down by traffic he yelled out the he used to race a Datsun 2000 many
> years ago for Peter Brock. "Do you know who that is...?" he yelled and then
> I pointed to the BRE sticker on my dash door. Seperated again by honking and
> backed-up traffic we finally caught up to each other again. "I used to share
> a car with Fitzy!" he yells to me. "Those cars were pretty good back then".
> I try to throw a crumpled business card through his window but at 45mph I was
> unsuccessful. I then yell for his name and he said something like,
> "Steinhart". Then he disappeared in traffic.
>
> I thought that was so cool to meet a guy that raced our wonderful Roadsters
> back in the day when Nissan ruled. That is my brush with greatness. Only in
> LA, huh?
>
> Michael "Calspeed" Carion
>
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