Dick,
THANKS FOR THE WORDS OF WISDOM! That pretty well sums up my take on the
sport.
Tom, Redding CA - #216 D/GCC
Dick J wrote:
> WARNING: I'M ON MY SOAP BOX
> Rick Byrnes <Rick@rbmotorsports.com> wrote: .... finally admit that my new
>Lakester ..will not make it to the salt this year. ........ have a life
>besides the car (my words, not the little red haired girls).
> The only good thing about growing old - - from time to time you are allowed
>to speak words of wisdom (i.e., been there - done that - got the scars).
>Every now and then I have to step back and take a reality check. My racecar
>provides me with TWO (2) great pass-times - wrenching and racing. Sometimes I
>want to get frustrated when, for one reason or another, the wrenching goes too
>slow and keeps me from racing. I have to step back, take a good look, and ask
>myself what it is I enjoy so much about this sport. If you're like me, you
>love your trips "out to the shop" after dinner, or late in the evening when
>there's nothing decent on the boob toob - tinkering for hours to make some
>small bracket that you could buy for two bucks at the local parts store. That
>part of the sport is like the time spent on board a cruise ship. You have to
>understand that it's not just the destination that counts, it's the time spent
>on the trip that accounts for so much of the enjoyment. Stop
, !
> take a breath, and enjoy it. Think of how many hundreds of thousands of guys
>there are out there who would give anything just to have what you have in your
>shop; to be able to go out there and "tinker". They are lucky to get a
>magazine every now and then in hopes of finding an article to read about the
>things that you do and to dream about the "stuff" that you have. Sometimes I
>don't even "tinker" when I get out there. I light my pipe, sit down on a
>tire, and just enjoy looking at the treasures (junk?) I have. Dreams that
>I've had all my life that I never thought would come true. Then, when my pipe
>goes out, I go back up to the house and spend time with my little girl,
>because she is growing up pretty fast and helping and watching her grow up is
>like that cruise. The destination is only half the joy. Getting there is the
>other half.
> Dick J
> In east Texas
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