Likewise on the Left Coast. It was almost always a staple at both the
West Coast Meets and our Austin-Healey Association Meets. Then at the
1980 Meet in Mt. Shasta a wanabe racer took a hard right at his
navigator's command. He went up over the curb and hit a spectator
photographer. The photographer landed on and broke the windscreen,
bounced over the back of the Healey and wound up on the tarmac behind
it. It was a lawsuit waiting to happen, which fortunately did not. At
that point, the event was forever banned, rightly so. We also had
Healeys damaged running into things. But it WAS a lot of fun!
Bill Barnett
'53 Red Car
'61 Green Car
On 11/5/2010 12:30 Big Blue, BOB BENISEK wrote:
> Nothing new. This was also the funkhana event at the first Conclave back in
> '76!
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chester Threedog"<chester3dog@gmail.com>
> To: Jwhlyadv@aol.com
> Cc: healeys@autox.team.net
> Sent: Friday, November 5, 2010 12:05:52 PM
> Subject: Re: [Healeys] FW: Events we need something new
>
> I still laugh about this event the NTAHC had back in April 1980. B It a
> regular autocross but as a added event we had a blindfolded (paper sack)
> event. B The driver wore the paper sack and navagator gave directions. B I
> think Jerry would have ended up in Oklahoma if he had not been stopped.
> Check out
> http://picasaweb.google.com/norbylett/19800427HCAutocrossGreaterSWAirport_1
>
> Grins, Norby
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