Great story, chuck!!! Congratulations!!
Geoff Branch
----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles Christ" <cfchrist@earthlink.net>
To: <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2007 8:12 AM
Subject: a cool night for the scouts!
> last night i took my son to his boy scout troop's meeting. i was asked to
> speak about race car safety since this month's troop's topic is race
> cars. (later this month they will be camping at poco international
> raceway) i took my driver's gear and discussed what and why all that
> "stuff" was required and explained flag stations and other aspects of
> safety like 5 & 6 piont harnesses (brought an old 5 piont with me too.)
> fire systems and rollbars and cages. then evryone got a chance to get
> into my bugeye (raced from 1961 to 1964 in H-production in the washington
> DC region of the SCCA) while i fielded a zillion questions about the car
> and other stuff from the boys. the boys all wanted to know what it
> sounded like so i fired it up! they thought it was "cool"! i really
> wanted to take evry boy for a lap of the church parking lot where they
> meet , but time was not in my favor for that. that would have really
> "contaminated" their minds for the future...LOL! the scouts tha
> nked me for my time and upon coming home after a rather "spirited" drive
> home , my son gave me a hug and said "thank you for doing your
> presentation tonight daddy"! the ride was way cool! but the hug was
> priceless!
>
> chuck
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