I wanted to talk with them about their engine but every time I went by their
pit there was no one around. I guess that speaks well for the car as they
were never working on it.
I hope yours is as fast as that one is.
Come on out. The list has good people all up and down the coast that would
be willing to help you out.
Larry Miller
----- Original Message -----
From "Wm. Severin Thompson" <wsthompson at thicko.com>
To: "Larry Miller" <millerls@ado13.com>; "Spridgets"
<spridgets@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, May 05, 2003 8:51 AM
Subject: RE: Button Willow
> That Walker bonnet car is the sister to my RedArse car...that's a
father/son
> team. (based on the previous seating position, they must be 130 lb
> Lilliputians...). Colby makes a great car.
>
> I'd love to get in some west coast racing in the next year or two.
>
> WST
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-spridgets@autox.team.net
> [mailto:owner-spridgets@autox.team.net]On Behalf Of Larry Miller
> Sent: Monday, May 05, 2003 10:04 AM
> To: Spridgets
> Subject: Button Willow
>
>
> We left Salinas at o-dark-thirty on Saturday morning in the pouring rain
> heading for Button Willow raceway. We stopped for breakfast in Paso Robles
> and messed around there for a while, in the pouring rain, before heading
> across highway 46 to Interstate 5 and Button Willow, in the pouring rain.
>
> We arrived about 10 AM and found Jon Paschke from the Spridget list at the
> Funkana setup where he was waiting for participants to start showing. We
> chatted with Jon for a few minutes then went looking for Mike MacLean. We
> found Mike's Bugeye but never saw Mike. By this time the rain was no
longer
> pouring, just intermittent. Did I mention that the wind was also blowing?
>
> Did I mention that weather wise it was a real crappy day but did not seem
to
> interfere very much with the racing :-)
>
> This was my first trip to Button Willow and it is not a great spectator
> track. There is only one spot where you can get higher than the track and
> that spot only holds about 50 people. Looks like the track was intended
just
> for the racers. The parking is pretty much all mixed in with the pit area
> and you can park where ever you want. Maybe now that they have the British
> car show they will get more spectators and make some changes. BTW congrats
> on the 1st place Mike. There were only two Bugeyes in the show but they
were
> both very nice.
>
> One very fast Bugeye and a couple of very fast Spridgets waxed the field
in
> the Sprite-Mini Challenge. The winning Bugeye sported the Walker Bonnet
> (http://www.ado13.com/bw/bw.html) made by Speedwell (Tom Colby). It pretty
> much ran away from the pack.
>
> Larry Miller
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