[Fot] team.net, fot Bill Caloccia, and donations

[Barr, Scott]

Donation done.  Oddly, the donation link doesn’t seem to be appearing at the bottom of the emails anymore.   It’s there on Mark’s recent email on Hardy Prentice, but not others.  Weird.

Nevertheless.  Done.

From: Fot <fot-bounces at autox.team.net> On Behalf Of robert bownes via Fot
Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2020 12:15 PM
To: FOT <fot at autox.team.net>
Subject: [Fot] team.net, fot Bill Caloccia, and donations

Apologies to those who have heard parts of this tale

Long long ago in a galaxy that seems oh so far away there were a few british cars mailing lists, autocross mailing lists, and a smattering of others run by our own MJB. One of the splinters was the land rovers mailing list that included my college friend, garage partner, and  occasional rallye sweep car partner, Bill Caloccia.

Bill took it upon himself in the very early days of the 'net to register the 'team.net<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fteam.net%2F&data=02%7C01%7Csbarr%40mccarty-law.com%7Cbde5d4645157415ed86c08d860addaaf%7C5027ac9b577b4efca8a99ee22eb53484%7C0%7C0%7C637365647102094581&sdata=zoYQHxoKRb%2BNWPt3RM0yksfuw4oThGLKZFcRLv2X6a8%3D&reserved=0>' domain. Bill was an enthusiast of the first order, driving a 109 coast to coast, owning an 88 pickup, an XR4Ti, always on hand for SCCA events, VTR events, as well as all the 'family' gatherings we had here with our good friends for the Jazz festival, Thanksgiving, New Year's, and the like. When he needed a place to stash the motor out of his '88, I of course volunteered a corner of the garage.

We lost Bill a few years back unfortunately, but that spare engine sat in the corner of my garage for years. In the last year I've been working to divest myself of unfinished projects, junk, and things I'm not using. But that engine sat untouched. A month or so ago I had an idea and listed the engine on the FB Marketplace. Last night, a 16 year old young man and his dad picked up that engine. They are planning on working with a friend to rebuild it and put it in his second 1966 88 Land Rover. The father (who worked on MGs with his dad) and son took on a running 109 a year ago and have spent great time getting all the little bits taken care of, and now they are moving on to full on British Car Madness, having picked up an engin-less '88 and another 109 for parts to build a complete car from.I gave him the info to get on the rovers mailing list, told them the story of Bill, the engine, the long procession of Land Rovers at his funeral carrying the casket and the flowers, and his friends and LR/racing family. I can't think of a better place for that engine to go. I feel like we've just enabled a heart transplant.

But, as I promised myself, and promised my memory of Bill, the money from that engine was donated this morning to team.net<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fteam.net%2F&data=02%7C01%7Csbarr%40mccarty-law.com%7Cbde5d4645157415ed86c08d860addaaf%7C5027ac9b577b4efca8a99ee22eb53484%7C0%7C0%7C637365647102094581&sdata=zoYQHxoKRb%2BNWPt3RM0yksfuw4oThGLKZFcRLv2X6a8%3D&reserved=0> to keep the bits flowing. Please consider doing the same from time to time, if not for Bill, or for Mark's sanity, then for all the parents and children handing down traditions of togetherness.

All the best,
Bob

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