Yup, John Lye,
I am pleased that we still have the story straight after all of these years.
Says something about the nature of the animal.
So much good has come out of all of this.
Might have even saved a life and a limb.
Mostly, the friendships have been cherished.
Joe Alexander
> Close - I was crewing for Chip Bond at the Runoffs (as I recall, it was the
> year that we were paddocked next to Hardy Prentice). Joe Alexander
> came down to Mid-Ohio to spectate, and gravitated over to our paddock
> space. After dinner one evening, Joe began musing about how cool it
> would be to find a way to link all the guys who were still racing Triumphs
> (SCCA, vintage, autocross, whatever) together to chat, share information,
> etc. etc. Since Mark Bradakis had been running the Team.Net website
> and e-mail lists for a while, and since he was a good friend, I told Joe
> that I was pretty sure that I knew someone who could make it all happen.
> Once I got back to my computer, I contacted Mark and he did make it
> all happen. So, it was Joe's idea, and Mark's work that started it all
> (and I was just the middleman). It has grown a bit since then, of course.
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