[Shotimes] Happy Father's Day

van Oss van Oss" <vanOss@centurytel.net
Sun, 19 Jun 2005 01:48:45 -0500


Happy Father's Day to all you dads out there.  I've met some great dads and 
kids through this community and conventions.  Bob and Mike Bruce, Don, Ken, 
and Ethan Mallinson, Andy and Colton Angermeier, and more.

SHO content:  One of my best days with my dad was in my 92 SHO.  My dad used 
to take us to Donnybrooke (now Brainerd) for Trans-Am and Can-Am races. 
We'd sit in the back bleachers (near turn 6, I think) and watch Parnelli 
Jones, Mark Donohue, and Bruce McLaren carve those corners.  Well, a few 
years ago the Slowpokes group (slowpokes.org) held a track day at Brainerd. 
Dad rode a bunch of hot laps with me in the morning, then drove the car 
during the noontime open period.  In the afternoon we walked around 
remembering.  It was my best day ever with my dad.  The SHO gave me a chance 
to give him that day.

VO