Pete,
Really sorry we missed you....We down to the boot on Friday night and
met with a guy called "old rattler" and the "cactus club". They made
huge amounts of clam chowder and had big speakers set up. Were you
around them? If you were, you werent going to get much sleep anyway.
Between the gas & noise.
Thanks for the summary on the rest of the day. You know more than we do.
We speculated that the rain moved in. We ran in to rain as we went to
Niagara Falls.
(Jack...see Pete's comments)
Jack & I, along with several other FOT will see you at Winona.
Once again...sorry we missed you.
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> From: dfullam@albany.net[SMTP:dfullam@albany.net]
> Sent: Saturday, September 13, 1997 10:54 PM
> To: Alexander Joseph H
> Subject: .Watkins Glen
>
> Hi Joe
>
> Well, I tried :-} I even took the TR. I got to the track just in
> time to
> miss getting in line for the vintage car parade lap. When I got to
> Jack's
> TR, you were elsewhere. I went back 3 more times Sat. PM, but I
> missed you
> each time. I eventually connected up with Dennis Culligan and camped
> with
> him over at the end of the Boot. It was really like old times: the
> same
> cars, the same party, the same drunks as 30 years ago. We didn't get
> to
> sleep til 3:00 AM.
>
> It rained during the night, and I wanted the tent to dry out before I
> packed
> it up. About the time the Group 3 race finished up, it was starting
> to
> cloud over again. I packed everything between races and headed back
> over to
> the paddock. Everyone but Bill Dentinger had left. He said I missed
> you by
> 10 minutes.
>
> The rain started again during the 2 hour enduro, with everybody on
> slicks.
> That got a little shaky, with cars all over the landscape. Then it
> stopped
> and the track dried out during lunch break. The Can Am race was to be
> the
> Feature event, so they had the anthems, presentations, invocation,
> yadda
> yadda as the sky got blacker and blacker. Finally "Gentlemen, start
> your
> engines" With that, the skies opened and it rained buckets for about
> 20
> min. Left an inch of standing water on the track. Not the conditions
> for
> 800 hp vintage cars worth well into 6 figures. So they cancelled the
> race.
> The grandstands rose as one person and everyone headed for the gates.
> I
> blew off the last events and hit the road.
>
>
> Now what? Winona?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Pete
> Dianne Boggess Fullam
> E-mail: dfullam@albany.net
>
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