At 06:59 PM 9/23/02 -0600, Mark J Bradakis wrote:
>Gee, reminds me of the Boulder VTR convention back in, uh, 1990.
Uh oh, I had a feeling that story was going to surface again!
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>Anyway, when The
>White Car rumbled up to the starting line with John and Bob in full regalia,
>a lot of folks ran for their video cameras, trust me. As I recall, about
>half of them ran the other way when the starter said go and the driver, I
>think it was John, put a fair bit of welly into it!
No, I was the trusting navigator - Dr. Bob was the driver, and
deserves all the "credit"
>They didn't win, but I bet it was the most photographed funkhana run
>that year.
As I recall, we did collect a trophy, and would have won if Bob
hadn't missed the balloons with those steamroller tires (which
is what started the whole thing anyway).
Later,
R. John Lye
rjl6n@cstone.net
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