I think I miss Marty Feldman more than the R.R.B. But I do feel your pain.
Rest easy,
Ron Yates
Editor, Dipstick Digest
Newsletter of the World's Smallest Austin Healey Club
----- Original Message -----
From: Wm. Severin Thompson <wsthompson@thicko.com>
To: vintage race list <vintage-race@autox.team.net>; Thickos
<team-thicko@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2000 4:28 AM
Subject: Flounder update
> To all,
>
> Thanks for your letters of concern. One of my favorites was Daniel
> Thompson's offer to "take the Bishop off my hands" in order to raise money
> for Frankensprite. Nice.
>
> Fortunately, money shouldn't be a problem (can you believe I'm saying
that?)
> with the building of Frankensprite... but time might be.
>
> On the way home from Mosport (more on that in a minute...), a trip to the
> Lake Forest Hospital Emergency room confirmed my own diagnosis...
fractured
> ribs. So, like Uncle Joe in Hooterville, I'll be "Movin' kinda slow at the
> Junction" for a while. The trip home from the track was highlighted with a
> trailer tire incident that required an overnight stay in Lansing, MI...
and
> a real effort in pain management when I had to climb up on the bumper and
> into the engine compartment of the Suburban to fix the alternator and
> replace the serpentine belt. Man did that hurt.
>
> It appears that the Red Rat Bastard was thoroughly "toasted" by everyone.
> That little piece of shit car had about a 95% win percentage (when it
> finished...). We may not write off the tub... but it will need much more
> work than I can begin to get to this year.
>
> Frankensprite is a right hand drive ex-H prod race car (with a full
cage...
> "how convenient"...). It will be the most ugly lime green color I can find
> (Healey showed up at LeMans one year with this color and the French made
> them repaint if for "safety" reasons...). Maura Machachern came up with
the
> license plate... "Abbynormal" (You have to be a fan of "Young
> Frankenstein"). I've commissioned a graphic designer to come up with the
> Frankensprite logo... but would be real happy to see anything y'all can
come
> up with.
>
> That's all for now...
>
> WST
> Flounder
> Team Thicko
>
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