From lorenzoscribe at hotmail.com Mon Oct 8 17:17:32 2012 From: lorenzoscribe at hotmail.com (Larry Steckel) Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2012 19:17:32 -0400 Subject: Penn State Sports Car Club Message-ID: Guys, It has been a long time since I posted onto Team.Net, and quite a long time since I received a post from the forum, but I want to ask a question that requires a national forum. I graduated from Penn State University in 1970. While at main campus, I was a member of The Penn State Sports Car Club. I competed in TSD rallyes in my Chevy Nova. I couldn't do autocross events because I didn't have seat belts and due to budget restrictions I was running cheap retreads. Not legal even back then. I have been out of school for 40+ years, and I have never met anyone from the Penn State Club. That is until two years ago. Two years ago, I visited the Autobahn Country Club in Joilet IL. and reconnected with Tom Bagley. He ran a yellow Camaro convertible. Then went road racing in Formula Vee. Moved on to become the first Super Vee Champion, then several years competing at Indy and in the PPG Indy Car series. Then a stint working for PPG etc etc. and now is one of the management group at Autobahn. I thought that was exceptional. Last year, out of the blue I received an e-mail from a Franklin Deaks, who lives in Florida if I remember correctly. He found my name from a posting I did on this forum eons ago. I connected him with Tom Bagley. Franklin even sent me some photos of PSU autocross events. More exceptional and quite a coincidence. Yesterday, the North Hills Sports Car Club held its 33rd Annual Autumn Leaf autocross. I got talking with a guy named George Katona, who was competing in a new Fiat 500. It turns out he too was at Penn State at the same time I was, was a member of the Sports Car Club, and competed in a VW Beetle. Yet I never met him till yesterday. This is getting too weird. So....is there anybody out there on Team.Net who was a member of the Penn State Sports Car Club in the 1969-1970 period who is sitll involved in autocross and who I have yet to meet some 40 years later? Larry Steckel AKA Lorenzo the Scribe