In a message dated 05/08/2001 2:15:58 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
Rick.Yocum@mail.sprint.com writes:
<< See, some of us never dreamed
the 500 would ever make it to the tube, so it was radio or nothing. I'm
so damn old my first hero was Bill Vukovich (Bill the First, for you
youngsters), and one of the most maturing moments in my young life was
hearing the announcement by Sid Collins that Vuky was dead from his
backstretch crash. Hell, no one had told me that your hero could die.
Rick Yocum
Trans Am Nova
(which, as Jack Woehrle pointed out to me, would by an odds-on favorite
to win the Pikes Peak Hill Climb...if they ever run it from the top,
down.)
>>
My Indy story points out how verbally dumb I was as a kid. My Dad took me to
the 1958 race when they had the big wreck in turn 3 & 4. Sometime near the
end of the race the PA system announced that Pat O'Conner had been fatally
injured in the incident. I said to my Dad that I was glad he wasn't killed!
My favorite car was the Belond Exhaust Special with the laydown Offy, and of
course the Novis.
jw
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