That's the great thing about owning Peyote, as Baxter
will tell you. You get to blow by loads of cars that
spend more on maintenance in a month that Peyote cost
outright. I used to have a certain reverence for
Testarossas, now I think of them as moving chicanes at
the entrance of high speed corners. Wot fun.
--- Bill Warner <bwarner@mediaone.net> wrote:
> A long time ago....like 1978.....I went to the first
> vintage race at
> Watkins Glen in my Brabham BT-8. It was an ex-Denny
> Hulme/Tourist
> Trophy winner that I found in a South Carolina junk
> yard. I restored it
> top the TT livery and it was pretty fast. The
> vintage race was
> sponsored by the Ferrari Club of America, and they
> gridded us according
> to pecking order....not qualifying times. Needless
> to say, my
> friend Gordon Gimbel from California and I were
> gridded toward the back
> of the pack. When the green dropped Gordon (in a
> 289 Comp Cobra)
> and I blew by some Greenwich, CT. gold-chain-and
> Gucci guy (with the
> skinny blonde girlfriend) who was driving a 250LM (I
> went by on the
> right...Gordon on the left) and disappeared. It
> was one of the
> highlights of my not so stellar driving career
> which I still remember
> today. It was so sweet eating up those red cars.
> Though I must say,
> one car, a series II GTO was well driven by a great
> driver, Bob
> Donner from Denver. Those were fun days.
> Regretably, I had to sell
> the BT-8 in 1989, and I am not so sure I would want
> to race it
> today....too fragile...plus one had to lay down
> between two 11 gallon
> gas tanks....no fuel cells. I'm too old for that.
> Bill Warner
>
> > Kevin,
> > It's called "Auto-Elitism" in which owners of
> certain marques look
> down their noses at other ones. It usually comes
> with the cost of
> > the toys in question!
> >
> > Joe
> >
> > KLynch7589@aol.com wrote:
> > >
> > > Bob, I just can't see how this group running
> Monterey thinks
> Triumph too
> > > boorish.
> > > I did see MG a featured marque some years
> back...I think.
> > >
> > > Kev Lynch/RMVR
>
>
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