And what did you think of the Lister Chevy on Sunday?
Charles: if you saw a couple walking a Border Collie around the North End of the
track ... that was us!
Think I wuz most impressed by the Datson 510 in the last race.
Staayed with the A production Vettes and Camarro's for most
of the 7 laps. The Bugeyes looked (and sounded!) great, too.
Then there were the Lotus Super 7's in the first race. And ... a
Mini pickup.
You hadda be there!
chuck (too)
Charles Christ wrote:
> left thursday morning for the track and joy-o-joy after 10 hours found that
> i had died and gone to race track heaven! wow what a great place! took
> friday's lapping sessions at noon in my 1979 chevy van with (now)293,000
> miles on it . actually had it drifting in the oak tree turn! scared the
> ....well you know what out of my friend and co - conspiritor jon who thought
> this was a good idea to purchase the ticket to allow us to take the
> "street"vehicle out at lunch time between practice sessions for a joy
> ride/sight seeing tour of the newly reconstructed facility. we ended up
> alone on the track with not even corner workers out on course so i got a bit
> carried away(there was no one out there to chastise us for what we were
> doing! we were only suposed to be going 35mph!!!, yeah right!)(coming down
> the front straight we pegged the spedo of the land barge at 85) it was
> hilarious!! lol!!! it was so cool to throw around the big old nasty
> domestic lust bus! what a riot! (the sessions on saturday and sunday were
> heavily attended and were very orderly, unlike friday). we were there to
> maintain a customer's 1962 morgan 4-4 race car for the weekend. i ended up
> working on some very interesting cars of other competitors. it is now
> 12:56am monday morning. just did the all day baking in the sun routine and
> then 10 hour drive home(grab a shower) and check almost 300 emails before a
> well deserved nap! oh yeah our morgan? ran strong all weekend .....third
> lap of it's race had a flat left rear tire and had to retire off track and
> was returned to us in the pitts via rollback....first off , thank god the
> owner was not hurt! secondly the car was not damaged! and we will return
> to play atthe next available opertunity to this fine facility.
> if you are ever interested in seeing vintage cars at speed this facility is
> a beautiful to take the family for a day of spectating, and possibly even
> some discovery/insight into what it was like to go racing 20-30-40 years
> ago(and see some spridgets really hash it out ).
>
> chuck.
> yawnnn....possibly next trip i will have my new play toy finished and in
> tow so i can get to play legitametly? *sigh* soon i hope.
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