<<< The big deal was that she was entered in the race car class and beat out
a
pretty slick Ferrari, a real nice Lotus and a GT40 owned by Lee Holman of
Holmam and Moody fame
Do I have a big head? YEAH!!! >>>
That's GREAT! Good for you!
Reminds me of a time in the late-1980s when I entered OLE BLUE in the
prestigious CHICAGO HISTORICS CONCOURS at Elkhart Lake. FERRARI was the
featured marque that year. FERRARIs were more common than CHEVYS. In the
CONCOURS, I was parked next to a flawless FERRARI reputed to be worth FIVE
MILLION DOLLARS. Next to its right front fender was a crystal vase, with
three dozen long stemmed roses in it. Say what you will, these FERRARI guys
go FIRST CLASS. Not to be out done, I hunted up an empty mason jar, and
stuffed if full of daisies from the side of the road (True Story!). OLE BLUE
took best RACE CAR. When I went to thank several of the Judges, and to
proclaim my disbelief, I was told off the record, that, "Picking the lowly
TR3 was, in fact, an 'OUT' for them." The way they saw it, if they would
have had to pick one of the FERRARIs over the others, there probably would
have been a riot.
Incidentally, in the Sunday feature race that week end, the FIVE MILLION
DOLLAR FERRARI went into the wall, and was folded in half. As terrible as
that sounds, if you total a five million dollar Ferrari, you can afford to
grab VIN plate and build a new one from scratch. The VIN plate has the
potential for that kind of value. If you folded a TR3 in half, you'd have to
throw it away. It would not be economically practical to fix it.
Bill Dentinger
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