That sounds like a blast! Keep the shiny side up and we're rooting for you.
May all your troubles be temporary and may all your fun be endless. Can't wait
to hear all the bench racing when you get back.
FPS3@aol.com wrote:
>
> I am leaving today for Orlando to pick up the trike. Stored in Rick
> Frazee's garage at the moment, beside his just completed re-rebuilt '32
> Matchless barrel-back. Then on to Savannah GA tomorrow to meet Pete Olson
> (''33 JAP SS) to begin the Racemark Challange in our trikes- on Wed.
> (Couldn't talk Rick into it...)
> We start with timed laps at Roebling road- then drive 125+ miles in the
> afternoon to Amelia Island for dinner (fat chance of making it there on
> time...). Up and on the road Thursday at zero-dark-thirty.. for another
> hundred + mile drive to attempt to arrive in Gainsville FL around 8AM!. There
> we will run timed laps on the road course, then drags plus bracket racing.
> Then drive back to Amelia Island for awards dinner that evening. We might be
> late for that one too, but not much chance of "awards" so we're going to have
> fun.
>
> Then to Daytona Beach to get a day or so of Bike Week (trikes are motorcycles
> too..), then back to Amelia for Concours on Sunday (as spectators).
>
> The Racemark Challange is a Brock Yates (Cannonball- One Lap of America)
> event. Easy for most cars- a real chalange for two guys who have probably
> never driven 200 miles a day in their trikes. We don't figure we will be "on
> time" for the dinners or for much else... but we hope to have some great fun
> and get our faces on the SpeedVision spl they are shooting of the event.
> Pete just got his back together after a shunt at Pittsburg (on the pace
> lap!) and has 0 miles on his rebuild. I have had mine sitting on an open
> trailer in the FL weather for three weeks- so we are... ready. I got the road
> flares... As Pete says "It's a quest"
> Hope the weather is better than NY....
>
> Fred Sisson
>
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