Back in the early 80s, my brother and I went down to Hallet Raceway in
Oklanhoma for a weekend. We worked corners to get in free.
Newman was there.
Saturday night, we were camping across the track from the paddock.
Apparently some drinking was going on. Pretty soon, we saw a car
go out on the track. I can't remember which one, but I think it was
one of Bob Sharp's Z cars. It was driving backwards up the front
straight, into pit row backwards and around again.
Another car did it. Then the Morgan (number 55 with the circle line
drawn threw it) car of the owner (?) of Hallet. It went around a
couple times, and then high centered itself on the tire wall. Opps.
Word in the paddocks the next day was that Newman was driving at the
time.
Carl French wrote:
> Paul Newman is starring in the movie so my wife is asking "how much would it
>cost to repaint our 67 pale primrose" :-) If Paul was driving I think I might
>want to put in a rev limiter just in case ;->
> Carl French
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