[Fot] My favorite memory of Jack...

[RACER BUD]

Man!...he must have been one heck of a Guy...The email stuff is Incredible...
Racer Bud
Spitfire #21
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: emanteno at comcast.net 
  To: N197TR4 at cs.com ; tony at tonydrews.com 
  Cc: fot at autox.team.net 
  Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 6:04 PM
  Subject: Re: [Fot] My favorite memory of Jack...




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    From: N197TR4 at cs.com 
    #2. 

    I was standing outside the fenceline at IRP facing the RH carousel that goes to LH turn onto the main straight.  A red Turner stepped sidways, caught the sidewalls,  and rolled, ending up in the infield grass 

    The next car through was Uncle and he pulled immediately off of the track and went to the aid of the driver. 

    I caught him in the pits, getting out of his car.  He put his arms on my shoulders and lost it.                       He said,  "I thought it was Irv". 



    Yeah, I remember that one as well. Lots of bad things happened in that race, and it was probably the reason that VSCDA stopped going to Indianapolis Raceway Park. I came in after the red flag, Jack was already in the paddock. Before I had even gotten out of the car, and with tears in his eyes, he hugged me and told me that he thought it had been me that had rolled over.

    Another favorite memory also at IRP. My first race there was in 1999, my 3rd race ever. Jack told me that in a TR4, you could go through corner 1 flat out in 4th. I worked my way up to it, and of course he was right. Passed several guys going into 1 thanks to that tip. He never told me that I could do that in corner 2 as well. He saved that one for Tony. :-)

    Jack built an engine for my car, and when it was ready, I came out for the weekend so we could put it in the car and I could take the car home. We got everything installed, and the engine wouldn't turn at all. After much discussion, it was determined that the new flywheel bolts were too long. I went home that Sunday evening without my car. The next morning, around 11:00 AM, Jack called me. He said "listen to this" and my new engine roared to life. By 11:00, he had pulled the tranny, removed the flywheel, shortened the bolts, re-installed the tranny, and had it running. 

    You guys that only met him on the phone or via email and thought he was special, you were right. The luckiest of all were the ones that got to be with him.

    Irv Korey



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