I'd tow from Ontario, Canada for an all-MINI race at Monterey!
-----Original Message-----
From: Ralph Towell <rtowell@worldnet.att.net>
To: larry gallo <agallo@pcfl.net>; MRogers726@aol.com <MRogers726@aol.com>
Cc: mdunst@smtplink.coh.org <mdunst@smtplink.coh.org>;
vintage-race@autox.team.net <vintage-race@autox.team.net>
Date: September 10, 1999 10:22 PM
Subject: Re: next year?
>There really is only one car worthy for the honors as the "millenium"
marque
>... the Mini Cooper!!! Need I say more.
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: larry gallo <agallo@pcfl.net>
>To: <MRogers726@aol.com>
>Cc: <mdunst@smtplink.coh.org>; <vintage-race@autox.team.net>
>Sent: Friday, September 10, 1999 9:14 PM
>Subject: Re: next year?
>
>
>> I surmise that the Monterey Historics are subject to
>> the same pressures (almost) as the Indy Pace Car
>> or Motor Trend Car of the Year fetish-- I refer to
>> lobbying of varying intensity by the current car-
>> makers, advertisers and sponsors to provide some
>> tie-in to marketing endeavors. While Maserati may
>> seem hardly more so than was Miller, it is a fact
>> that the Fiat/Ferrari custodians have their first new
>> product in more than a decade to introduce, and
>> they see it as a full blossomed faceoff for "Ford's"
>> Aston DB7 if they can properly "launch" it here.
>>
>>
>> MRogers726@aol.com wrote:
>>
>> > In a message dated 9/10/99 3:57:09 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
>> > mdunst@smtplink.coh.org writes:
>> >
>> > > Milestones in automobile engineering came fairly quickly just before
>and at
>> > > the begining of this century.
>> > WELL WE COULD RACE MILESTONE CARS-- XK120, DB-2,3,4,5, AH100-4, ETC
>> > Actually, in line with your comments, I think we should have a special
>place
>> > in our lives for the limey cheepies that allowed sportscar racing to
>> > flourish: the MG, Singers, Jowett Jupiters, TR, Sprites even the Healys
>> > although they were a bit expensive in comparison. we could even include
>the
>> > Crossly not so much for the Supper sport though it DID win the index of
>> > performance at sebring in 51(?) but for all the H/modified and F Jr.
>motors
>> > it provided. Without these Marques, sportscar racing would probably be
>like
>> > horse racing is -- and sportscar racing is becoming -- only for the
>Affluent!
>> > Count the horse tracks and compare them to the number of road race
>tracks.
>> > OUR SPORT was for a while something that WE (most of us weren't born
>with the
>> > proverbial Silver spoon in our mouth) could become involved with. The
>> > auspicious celebrations we now either participate in or wish to are the
>> > result of these humble-cast iron LUMPS that we could afford to thrash.
>THERE
>> > DAM WELL SHOULD BE A CELEBRATION IN THEIR BEHALF!!
>> > Michael Rogers
>>
>>
>
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