[Fot] Hot Wheels...WHY?

[BillDentin at aol.com]

In a message dated 10/03/2009 3:10:34 PM Central Daylight Time, 
budscars at comcast.net writes:


> <<< just got mine in the mail(Ebay)...got 2 silver and 1 green..really 
> cool little
> dudes! >>>


Like a Lemming, I've have followed the rushing crowd to Walmart and 
purchased two Hot Wheels TRIUMPH TR6 models.  They are both the #17 silver race car 
model.  Now if I can only find my collection of Avon After Shave (in the 
green glass TR3 bottles), I can keep them all together.  I hope Shirley hasn't 
tossed them out.

Why would a seventy year old man make a special trip to Walmart to buy Hot 
Wheels?  Total cost...$2.04.  And they're not a gift for my grandchildren.  
They're for myself no less.  It's because what happened at ROAD AMERICA last 
week end is more frosting on our cake.  Kas, Tullius, and a host of others 
laid the foundation a half century ago.  By shade tree backyard efforts, 
that winning tradition was continued in club racing for decades.  Long after 
TRIUMPH ceased production the winning continues.  People like Prentice, 
Wheeler, and now Halkias continued the winning tradition.    Based on the 
incredible number of wins, and in particular its club racing record...clearly, 
TRIUMPH, that sports car for the common man...that sports car of the great 
unwashed, is one of the greatest marques ever. 

You bet!  I've got mine too.

Bill (Damdinger)