[Fot] Nominating Duane Bailey

[Barr, Scott]

Second!

Scott B.

-----Original Message-----
From: fot-bounces at autox.team.net [mailto:fot-bounces at autox.team.net] On
Behalf Of Rocky Entriken
Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 1:57 PM
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Subject: [Fot] Nominating Duane Bailey

Got another nomination -- Duane Bailey

Dunno why he's not been on this list for years. Certainly he's known to
many
of us. But I just now talked to him (He's refreshing one of my engines
at
the moment) and he gave me the go-ahead to put his name up.

Bailey, of course, owns West Michigan Imports in Byron Center (near
Grand
Rapids), Mich. He's a Britcar specialist (Triumph, MG, Jensen, Jaguar)
for
parts & repairs and a Spitfire racer, member of West Michigan Region,
involved in the race program at Grattan and GingerMan.

I've known Duane since we were both members of the Jayhawk Sports Car
Club
at the University of Kansas. Actually I helped restart JSCC with a group
of
my friends, and Duane shows up at the first rally we put on, then began
autocrossing his Pontiac GTO. His car was so big and my Spitfire so
little -- and courses so much tighter then -- I usually beat him
handily.
Then we graduated and I lost track of him for many years until a mutual
friend who lived in Grand Rapids reacquainted us and I found he'd become

this Spitfire guy. Long gone the GTO. Wonder if our contests on the
parking
lots of KU those many years ago had anything to do with it? :-) Since
then
he's become my engine specialist (trannies too) and the guy I call when
I
need help.

--Rocky Entriken
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