Listen to this guy...television coverage. See, some of us never dreamed
the 500 would ever make it to the tube, so it was radio or nothing. I'm
so damn old my first hero was Bill Vukovich (Bill the First, for you
youngsters), and one of the most maturing moments in my young life was
hearing the announcement by Sid Collins that Vuky was dead from his
backstretch crash. Hell, no one had told me that your hero could die.
Rick Yocum
Trans Am Nova
(which, as Jack Woehrle pointed out to me, would by an odds-on favorite
to win the Pikes Peak Hill Climb...if they ever run it from the top,
down.)
-----Original Message-----
From: ALFABYTE [mailto:ALFABYTE@aol.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2001 1:49 PM
To: vintage-race
Cc: ALFABYTE
Subject: Re: Gee but I'd love to hear that again --- me too!
What memories...Riding my bicycle in circles in the parking lot across
the
street with a transistor radio on the handle bars listening to "The
Race."
Then spend a couple hours of the radio broadcast listening to it in the
garage putting a coat of wax on the 1/4 midget. Made ya feel like a big
guy
racer dude. Here in Chicago we would get a tape delay on TV later at
night.
So, I never listened to the last few laps on the radio. Dad brought
home our
first color TV on race day one year. Awesome.
Rick Dunleavy
VSCDA #63 Tina G.T.
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