[Tigers] My newest favorite car website (off topic)

[Mike Michels]

Scooter drove his car again at the Monterey Historics last summer. His car 
is now owned by Toyota dealer Craig Zinn. Scooter was joined by Timo Glock 
in the Fangio/Jones Gurney Eagle Mk III GTP car, motoGP legend  Eddie Lawson 
in the ex Chris Cord/Willy T Ribbs IMSA GTO Celica, and Chuck Wade, who runs 
the Toyota Motorsports Shop, in Gurney's first Toyota effort which was an 
IMSA GTU Celica.

I was lucky enough to be part of it. The drivers had no familiarization or 
warmup opportunities before demo hot laps for the crowd. I can tell you that 
these otherwise fearless guys were nervous as can be, praying not to screw 
up, especially the Turbo cars which have throttle behavior akin to an on-off 
switch. Scooter actually did spin but no harm done.

Everyone had a blast and I'm not sure who had more fun, the drivers or the 
owners of the historic cars who got to see them at speed again. We have 
several 2000GTs in the Toyota historic car collection in Torrance and 
occasionally get them on the road for special occasions. Nice to see 
everyone's interest in this rare car.

Here are some YouTube clips from some fans at the track:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AA8B_Blw0GE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acn-Q5A-63A&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acn-Q5A-63A&feature=related


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Buck Trippel" <BuckTrippel at Verizon.net>
To: "michael king" <michael.s.king at gmail.com>; <rfraser at bluefrog.com>
Cc: <Tigers at autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 4:48 PM
Subject: Re: [Tigers] My newest favorite car website (off topic)


> And the drivers were Scooter Patrick (who sold Tigers and other Rootes 
> products in Manhattan Beach) and Davey Jordan (who raced Alpines and 
> attended TU at Big Bear last year).
>
> ;-)
>
> bt
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "michael king" <michael.s.king at gmail.com>
> To: <rfraser at bluefrog.com>
> Cc: <Tigers at autox.team.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 4:12 PM
> Subject: Re: [Tigers] My newest favorite car website (off topic)
>
>
>> Tounge in cheek..
>>
>> Iknow how this car relates to sunbeams...
>>
>> Shelby america raced them in SCCA for 2 years as factory cars
>> -- 
>> Regards
>>
>> Michael King
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