<DIV>I have been lucky these last few years to have spent some time working with Jack in his garage. My cold winter drives to Geneseo would always be rewarded with the best shop talk and Triumph stories. For some reason Jack agreed to let me work with him in building my first tractor motor - I think that he could tell that I really wanted to know how it was done. Eventually he even taught me how to port a head. Garage time with Jack is truly my favorite memory. </DIV> <DIV>I'll really miss knowing that he is out there.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Dennis</DIV> <DIV><BR><BR><B><I>Tony Drews <tony@tonydrews.com></I></B> wrote:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">One of the things we'll be doing at the visitation is having folks <BR>write down a favorite memory of Jack. It occurs to me that many of <BR>you can't attend but would like to participate in this
portion of his <BR>celebration. You may even find it cathartic (I find that reading and <BR>responding to the messages about him is cathartic for me).<BR><BR>If you'd like, reply to me with your favorite memory of Jack. I'll <BR>make sure that the whole family gets to read all of these. If you <BR>feel the desire, you can cc the FOT list, but that's not necessary.<BR><BR>I have a couple that I can share:<BR>At IRP, when we were sharing old blue, Jack told me that turn 2 could <BR>be taken flat out. After the next session, I was explaining to him <BR>how much I had to work at it to keep the car on the track when I took <BR>turn 2 flat out. His response: "You're taking 2 flat out? I've not <BR>done THAT yet in THIS car..." - apparently he was explaining the <BR>hypothetical... We would push each other quite a bit that way - one <BR>of us would find a driving trick and couldn't wait to share it with <BR>the other one of us.<BR><BR>At Road America, when I was still sorting out
the Red Rocket (my <BR>car), I had just removed the muffler in my quest for more top end <BR>power. When we got out on the track for the race, we were totally <BR>equal in handling and power. I believe that it was a 6 lap race. We <BR>were within a couple of car lengths of each other for almost the <BR>entire race. One of us would draft by the other one on the front <BR>straight, and then on the back straight (from turn 3 to turn 5), we'd <BR>reciprocate. I passed him like 5 times and he passed me 5 or 6 times <BR>in the 6 laps. I went through turn 5 and 6 with Jack on my inside at <BR>least once, tires squealing, inches apart, and I may have returned <BR>the favor. On the last lap, I managed to pull ahead for the run <BR>through the kink, he couldn't draft by me until the start / finish <BR>line - I had finally bested him! However, exiting Canada corner my <BR>throttle linkage broke (I had been pushing down on the gas pedal with <BR>all of my might throughout the race),
and he passed me to finish <BR>ahead. We always talked about this as the highpoint of our racing <BR>careers. Racing inches apart, sliding through the corners on those <BR>wonderful Vintage TD's, totally trusting each other, man - it doesn't <BR>get any better than that.<BR><BR>- Tony<BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>http://www.team.net/donate.html<BR><BR>Fot mailing list<BR>Fot@autox.team.net<BR>http://autox.team.net/mailman/listinfo/fot<BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>