Katie
Very kind words from the heart. We are all family and it shows.
Glen
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From: <Drylakercr@aol.com>
To: <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, May 07, 2001 1:59 PM
Subject: 5/6 @ El Mirage
> After hearing form quite a few list members that they haven't heard from
me
> in a while I decided to post a message.
>
> Although we, that is my dad and I, did not break a record this meet we did
> learn a few lessons which I won't go into, but concern a Hurst shifter
> (thanks to Russ Eyres and Mike VanDoren for your help here) and the driver
> using the Hurst shifter.
>
> I must admit that the greatest part of the meet was sharing in the
> wonderfully joyous, yet sad, event of "A Mother's Worry," roadster #52,
> breaking their class record with the blown flathead. And it staying
together
> through the entire run! What a wonderful moment it was to here Ken Walkey
> announce the record, give Tom Evens that timing slip, and see Tom Eiden's
> smile when he saw his historical car in the impound (for those who don't
know
> about the car it was #1 in points when owned by the Brissettes and then my
> family, the Young Bros., took it to 174mph with a inline 6 and now the two
> Toms add to its history).
>
> Many of you may know that Tom Eiden, the president of the Sidewinders, has
> terminal cancer. The meet was shut down Sunday to present him with a life
> membership to our club (the Sidewinders) to a teary eyed crowd. He is a
great
> man who has given much of himself to our sport and I am glad that we were
> able to give back to him, and that his car could break that record that
same
> day!
>
> Tom loves to retell people something I told him a few years back--"I never
> remember when I didn't know him." Ok, I've been around the Sidewinders a
> little while (since I was about 2 yrs. old).
>
> Please keep Tom in your thoughts, that he will be as comfortable and
> pain-free as possible.
>
> Thanks again to all of you for your support in this wonderful sport we
share!
>
> Katie Young Cortez
> #256
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