Okay, gang, some of us old fartz out here have stories from back when a
"tire mold" was better known as a chisel -- but ancient history is not the
total subject here.
Even newbies who have only been doing this 6-8-10 years or so (or less)
probably have some fun stories of first events. It's off-season. Good time
for such remembrances.
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Lieberman" <jlieberman@sport.rr.com>
To: "Rocky Entriken" <rocky@tri.net>
Cc: <pethier@isd.net>; <marka@telerama.com>; <autox@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 6:32 PM
Subject: Re: First event (was Re: Recaps)
> You've got me beat by two years, Rocky, but I've got Phil beat by one.
> Ran my first autox - more of a gymkhana! - in the summer of '67 on the
> old Spartan-Atlantic lot in San Antonio driving my '64 Corvair. Ran a
> couple more events with them that summer, then didn't do it again until
> '76 when I ran a "celebrity" event (for us media types) in Wichita -
> driving the RE's X-1/9. (They wouldn't let me run my '73 Dart Sport -
> we all had to drive the same car!) Then I got away from it again until
> I got into the club here in Shreveport in '85. I've been hooked ever
> since!!! 8<{)
>
> John (Old Fartz & TLS #37) Lieberman
>
>
> Rocky Entriken wrote:
> > Gotcha beat.
> >
> > September 5, 1965 -- Virgo Autocross, at Mitchell Field, Hempstead, Long
> > Island, NY, driving my brother's MGA.
> >
> > Mile-long course -- 11 turns (counting three S-turn combos as 2 each).
By
> > today's standards it would have been at least a Solo Trials event. Host
was
> > Team-X (my brother's club).
> >
> > Everyone had to make a mandatory minimum of two practice runs, then got
two
> > timed runs. I was 11th out of 21 in class, came home to Kansas, bought
the
> > Spitfire, and the rest is history.
> >
> > --Rocky (Yes, I still have my copy of the results, and the event flyer)
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