<div dir="ltr">I'm in for Donny.<div>Bruce</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 10:38 AM, Bill Dentinger via Fot <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fot@autox.team.net" target="_blank">fot@autox.team.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><font face="arial,helvetica"><span class=""><font color="#400040" size="3" face="Arial" lang="0">In a message dated 03/28/2015 6:41:37 AM Central Standard Time, <a href="mailto:fot@autox.team.net" target="_blank">fot@autox.team.net</a> writes:<br>
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<blockquote type="CITE" style="BORDER-LEFT:#0000ff 2px solid;MARGIN-LEFT:5px;MARGIN-RIGHT:0px;PADDING-LEFT:5px">Donny Sopp of Homer, NY has been racing his Spitfire <i>(and picking up the parts falling off it) </i>for well over the past 24 years usually with me at events at Watkins Glen; Mid-Ohio; Summit Point; Shannonville, CA; and Mosport, CA. He is known for his innate ability to extract magical extended life and service from parts others might discard. </blockquote><br>
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</font></span><font color="#400040" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:#ffffff" face="Arial" lang="0">Russ...<br>
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Shannonville. Wow! There's a Blast from the Past. <br>
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I ran Shannonville once, many, many years ago. Maybe it has changed, but back then it was very blue collar, and the only track I can think of where you can pretty much see the entire circuit sitting in the grandstand. <br>
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Two things stick in my mind. One that this is the only circuit I ever ran where there were side by side straights which gave the illusion that traffic was coming back straight at you. No one warned me. The first time out, I got to the grid late and by the time I was headed down the first straight, traffic was already coming back at me. I thought I had done something wrong, and only the laundry knows how excited I got. <br>
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The second thing I remember is that I blew a head gasket in one of the practice sessions. I was all alone, no crew, and I'm a lousy mechanic. But local spectators helped me change the gasket, and I made the race. I even got a class trophy.<br>
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Near by Kingston, is a great little resort town. My wife Shirley loved it.<br>
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Sorry I don't have any Spitfire parts, but a big hello to Donny Sopp.<br>
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Bill Dentinger<br>
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