Penn State Sports Car Club

[Larry Steckel]

Guys,
It has been a long time since I posted onto Team.Net, and quite a long time
since I received a post from the forum, but I want to ask a question that
requires a national forum.

I graduated from Penn State University in 1970. While at main campus, I was a
member of The Penn State Sports Car Club. I competed in TSD rallyes in my
Chevy Nova. I couldn't do autocross events because I didn't  have seat belts
and due to budget restrictions I was running cheap retreads. Not legal even
back then.

I have been out of school for 40+ years, and I have never met anyone from the
Penn State Club. That is until two years ago.

Two years ago, I visited the Autobahn Country Club in Joilet IL. and
reconnected with Tom Bagley.  He ran a yellow Camaro convertible. Then went
road racing in Formula Vee. Moved on to become the first Super Vee Champion,
then several years competing at Indy and in the PPG Indy Car series. Then a
stint working for PPG etc etc. and now is one of the management group at
Autobahn.   I thought that was exceptional.

Last year, out of the blue I received an e-mail from a Franklin Deaks, who
lives in Florida if I remember correctly. He found my name from a posting I
did on this forum eons ago. I connected him with Tom Bagley.  Franklin even
sent me some photos of PSU autocross events. More exceptional and quite a
coincidence.

Yesterday, the North Hills Sports Car Club held its 33rd Annual Autumn Leaf
autocross. I got talking with a guy named George Katona, who was competing in
a new Fiat 500.  It turns out he too was at Penn State at the same time I was,
was a member of the Sports Car Club, and competed in a VW Beetle. Yet I never
met him till yesterday. This is getting too weird.

So....is there anybody out there on Team.Net who was a member of the Penn
State Sports Car Club in the 1969-1970 period who is sitll involved in
autocross and who I have yet to meet some 40 years later?

Larry Steckel
AKA Lorenzo the Scribe