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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Scott<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> BS Levy at Think Fast Ink [mailto:thinkfast@mindspring.com]
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<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, April 12, 2015 7:49 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Barr, Scott<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Notes from my dungeon<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><strong><i><span style="font-size:18.0pt;color:white">Okay, I've been good. Honest I have. Busy, too. I've been chained here to my computer, flogging away like mad on the new "Steamroller II" book (see below, although
you can tell it's an older picture on account of the lack of gray and the hair on top) and I'm making great progress. Really I am.</span></i></strong><span style="font-size:22.0pt;color:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><strong><i><span style="font-size:18.0pt;color:white">But that also means I've skipped all the fun (not to mention potential ride mooches in magnificent race cars I could never dream of affording...see pix below from
years past) at Brian Redman's always great Targa 66 deal in West Palm Beach, Fla. back in February:</span></i></strong><span style="font-size:22.0pt;color:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center"><b><i><span style="font-size:18.0pt;color:white"><img border="0" width="285" height="123" id="_x0000_i1038" src="http://files.ctctcdn.com/dcb0791c201/377f0b8d-1402-464f-a766-11349cac5d4e.jpg" hspace="5" vspace="5" name="ACCOUNT.IMAGE.811"><strong>
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<p align="center" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center"><b><i><span style="font-size:18.0pt;color:white"><img border="0" width="588" height="410" id="_x0000_i1041" src="http://files.ctctcdn.com/dcb0791c201/472e9222-12f8-4df6-b8db-d3dff48cca26.jpg" hspace="5" vspace="5" name="ACCOUNT.IMAGE.823"></span></i></b><span style="font-size:22.0pt;color:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><i><span style="font-size:18.0pt;color:white"><img border="0" width="600" id="_x0000_i1042" src="http://files.ctctcdn.com/dcb0791c201/c39f0f07-fb74-4b0a-8043-1aebf4305955.jpg" hspace="5" vspace="5" name="ACCOUNT.IMAGE.815"></span></i></b><em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:white">By
the way, if you'd like to see a short video clip of me flogging the living shi...I mean, "experiencing and evaluating" this wonderful, race-winning (1967 12 Hours of Reims), 427 cubic-inch, 200+mph Ford MK. IIB from the fabulous Revs Institute Collier Collection
in Naples, Florida, </span></em><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=0016F3UobQuKWKdPHot5RCxubg0zPu3d4wQ15siILDeHFxj3rVC6CGOSPJSU2pdu_IvjH4bw5v1R8tKppmTgBvqGUy8l-ljGUsB6DRSoqnyqifuNNl8IFcrRLIAuYF0OvXfVjeN5mx0ZhNMvQPynhrBTTVR42ksJlzr7WYnqm1BV2Qo_azA_BDyLulChfZlGyG_ezbsRmuStWI=&c=tlKGUL8kiUO_TuKapfn-RyUbTvCAgEku0P3sNEfQTRkefxB0WeHWjQ==&ch=0d6XuWkMtDGIcjr3QGUASFA0wqv67kJFFJmz4C1z8ELLH1zeFhnkGQ==" target="_blank"><span style="color:yellow">CLICK
HERE</span></a></span></strong><span style="font-size:22.0pt;color:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></strong><span style="font-size:26.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><strong><i><span style="font-size:18.0pt;color:white">I also grudgingly took a pass on the Sebring 12 Hour in March (even though we coulda probably sold enough books there to more than pay for the trip to Florida
in the middle of a truly cold, miserable & snow-encrusted Chicago winter) and I likewise missed out on my very favorite Concours d'Elegance ["car show" for youse who don't parlez-vous le Francais] of the year at Amelia Island.</span></i></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><strong><i><span style="font-size:18.0pt;color:white">That was a tough one, since Amelia always draws wonderful cars, enthusiastic crowds and lots of famous & fantastic motorsports/gearhead personalities.
<a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=0016F3UobQuKWKdPHot5RCxubg0zPu3d4wQ15siILDeHFxj3rVC6CGOSPJSU2pdu_Ivg2yDP6oSnquTu_G3byx70uxn-tPeZL6SoRkpCLa_k8t2_QMvpTtrMViBFw5_GWrg2Ibrrh541FVYHdYeAeChtFZtug8pTtYCH7IcMvY_a1bJ5um1P8L_4Q==&c=tlKGUL8kiUO_TuKapfn-RyUbTvCAgEku0P3sNEfQTRkefxB0WeHWjQ==&ch=0d6XuWkMtDGIcjr3QGUASFA0wqv67kJFFJmz4C1z8ELLH1zeFhnkGQ==" target="_blank">
<span style="color:yellow">CLICK HERE</span></a> to see pix etc. from this year's show. Plus we've been sponsoring a "Buddy Palumbo Award" down there for quite some time, which is given to someone who restored the car themselves (and I'm talking with their
own two scarred, scraped, burned, blistered, bruised & disfigured hands here) and moreover drove the damn thing to the show.</span></i></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><strong><i><span style="font-size:18.0pt;color:white">I like to think it's a pretty cool concept.</span></i></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><strong><i><span style="font-size:18.0pt;color:white">Or, in plainer language: screw all those pampered, over-polished, way-too-perfect trailer queens....</span></i></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><strong><i><span style="font-size:18.0pt;color:white">Great motor cars wuz meant to be DRIVEN!</span></i></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:white"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><strong><i><span style="font-size:18.0pt;color:white">My accomplished friend Ted Wenz (better known as one of the top racing engine builders in the country...click on the name to visit his
<a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=0016F3UobQuKWKdPHot5RCxubg0zPu3d4wQ15siILDeHFxj3rVC6CGOSPJSU2pdu_Iv4kDwZlfhQOg6jDr1ha7K4PBixfmdMNAxUQSbYJ2p3GX5XBCjGVOyiHWOYlnN3O0NdcrNwqH-YoEksNmCy1VkzHRhDDskEkBd5tWNiGJZwa1xQ4tkEw0NgYYmQB7F7eae&c=tlKGUL8kiUO_TuKapfn-RyUbTvCAgEku0P3sNEfQTRkefxB0WeHWjQ==&ch=0d6XuWkMtDGIcjr3QGUASFA0wqv67kJFFJmz4C1z8ELLH1zeFhnkGQ==" target="_blank">
<span style="color:yellow">SAVANNAH RACE Â ENGINEERING</span></a></span></i></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><strong><i><span style="font-size:18.0pt;color:white">website) is also quite the talented and whimsical, weld-it-together-out-of-busted/blowed-up engine parts metal sculptor. He did our very first "Buddy Palumbo Award"
back in 2007 (see below)</span></i></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><strong><i><span style="font-size:18.0pt;color:white">and this year he was kind and/or stupid enough to do it again. He came up with something truly wonderful (as always...see work-in-progress pic below, better pix
coming).</span></i></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><i><span style="font-size:18.0pt;color:white"><img border="0" width="600" id="_x0000_i1044" src="http://files.ctctcdn.com/dcb0791c201/beb09097-1db4-4799-8449-3eb30d0175b5.jpg" hspace="5" vspace="5" name="ACCOUNT.IMAGE.817"><strong>And
then, in my absence, my friend/event chairman Bill Warner's skilled, knowledgeable, well-qualified and hard-to-bribe judges made a great selection to receive it. They picked the Lane Motor Museum's recently completed replica of the ingenious, iconic, outrageous,
intriguing, infamous and also somewhat nutty Buckminster Fuller "Dymaxion" of 1933.</strong></span></i></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><i><span style="font-size:18.0pt;color:white"><img border="0" width="600" id="_x0000_i1045" src="http://files.ctctcdn.com/dcb0791c201/17e5dd00-960e-48bc-abc7-430cb6612b03.jpg" hspace="5" vspace="5" name="ACCOUNT.IMAGE.798"><strong>Now
old Bucky Fuller was either an inspired, visionary, way-ahead-of-his-time, neo-futurist architect-cum-engineer-cum-inventor-cum-author-cum-systems theorist-cum-renaissance man or a loony, loopy, loose-cannon, tossed-out-of-Harvard-for-partying-with-a-blessed-vaudeville-troupe
wack-job (depending on who is doing the describing). Bucky believed to the core of his very being in an evolved, enlightened, reason-driven and technologically-enhanced future that, well, might remind you just a wee bit too much of an H.G. Wells science-fiction
novel.</strong></span></i></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><em><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:white"> </span></b></em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><strong><i><span style="font-size:18.0pt;color:white">Everybody knows Buckminster Fuller promoted and popularized the golf-ball shaped geodesic dome [see Epcot Center] as his lasting contribution to modern residential
architecture (although you rarely see them represented these days on those home-makeover shows wife Carol enjoys so much) but he had some equally far-out notions about what we should be driving. Which he brought to life as the Dymaxion (see below, getting
our award at Amelia)</span></i></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><i><span style="font-size:18.0pt;color:white"><img border="0" width="250" height="172" id="_x0000_i1046" src="http://files.ctctcdn.com/dcb0791c201/eda018f1-f2c8-4a92-b094-ed61a93e84e2.jpg" hspace="5" vspace="5" name="ACCOUNT.IMAGE.796"><strong>
</strong><img border="0" width="275" height="183" id="_x0000_i1047" src="http://files.ctctcdn.com/dcb0791c201/763cadfd-e1f8-4c1b-bdf7-8468d9e2b43f.jpg" hspace="5" vspace="5" name="ACCOUNT.IMAGE.812"><strong>Now the forward-thinking, aerodynamic Dymaxion
made the offerings of the rest of the automotive world look positively midieval back in 1933. According to Bucky Fuller and his shadow-pack of acolytes, it could carry up to 11 human beings, cruise comfortably at a mile a minute and turn and park in heavy
city traffic in little more than the length of its own wheelbase. And there were even plans for adding removable, inflatable wings so it could also fly....</strong></span></i></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><strong><i><span style="font-size:18.0pt;color:white">I am not making any of this up.</span></i></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><strong><i><span style="font-size:18.0pt;color:white">Unfortunately, there were a few little technical details that would have raised eyebrows at any race shop or street-corner gas station on the planet. Starting
with the startlingly unusual (!!!), 3-wheeler/front-wheel-drive chassis layout, which featured an ordinary Ford third member solid axle in front (just like what you might find underneath the BACK end a 1933 Ford sedan), a Ford Flathead V8 kind of sitting in
the middle driving those front wheels and a single, tiller-style wheel in the back to steer the damn thing. Oh, the Dymaxion could turn on a dime and give you eight cents change, but the handling and road-holding were, umm, shall we say, "unconventional?"
Sort of partway between a flat-front skiff with an over-sized outboard motor on the back and one of those carpet-covered-platform-and-brass-rails, bang-it-off-the-walls "caster carts" they give you to take your effing luggage to your room at a Holiday Inn.</span></i></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><strong><i><span style="font-size:18.0pt;color:white">Suffice to say that the very first Dymaxion (three were ultimately built) was involved in a very serious accident--with fatalities--early on in its career. But
even so, its forward-thinking design attracted the interest of all sorts of trendy, upper-crust, high-society, intellectual/influential wealthy-dilettante types. Including bucks-up playwright Clare Boothe Luce (her husband published Time, Life and Fortune
magazines) and socialite Dorothy Hale (who jumped to her death four years later off a Manhattan skyscraper after failing to make it as an actress). Those two adventurous ladies took an extended (and accident-free) trip around Connecticut in a Dymaxion in 1934
with Bucky Fuller's associate and project development engineer Isamu Noguchi doing the driving.</span></i></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><strong><i><span style="font-size:18.0pt;color:white">In any case, I don't think Karl Benz, Vittorio Jano, Dr. Ferdinand Porsche, Hans Ledwinka, Wilfredo Ricart, Colin Chapman, Smokey Yunick, Quin Epperly, Bob McKee,
Bill Sadler, Bob Riley, John Barnard, Adrian Newey or even old Max Balchowsky (bonus trivia points if you know all fourteen of those guys without resorting to a google search) would have though very much of the Dymaxion's chassis dynamics. Nonetheless, it's
kind of a monument to old-fashioned American ingenuity and a certain type of strange, science-fictiony theoretical conjuring. And I'm thrilled that my good friends at The Lane Museum decided to build a replica of it and put it on display where we can all see
it, and even more thrilled that it won the "Buddy Palumbo" award at Amelia this year. And extra kudos to museum founder and sparkplug Jeff Lane, who [it says here] drove the damn thing down from Nashville himself.</span></i></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><strong><i><span style="font-size:18.0pt;color:white">And what a scary ride that must have been!</span></i></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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MOTOR MUSEUM</span></a></span></u></i></b><b><i><span style="font-size:18.0pt;color:white"> (click on the name to visit the website) as it is a fantastic collection of the fascinating, interesting, compelling and--most of all--odd and unusual artifacts and/or
aberrations of automotive history.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><strong><i><span style="font-size:18.0pt;color:white">You will not be disappointed!!!!</span></i></strong><span style="font-size:26.0pt;color:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;color:white">The new book continues to take shape (I think you'll like it) and we're still pretty much on track to launch it (God willin' an' if the crik don't rise) at this years THE HAWK Vintage Race Meeting
Extravaganza at Road America July 17-19. I hope.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;color:white">And that reminds me: we're still busily running up the old phone bill looking for sponsors and advertisers. It works like this:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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audience (plus a couple high school English classes, a bunch of library collections and a few book clubs that took some bad advice somewhere along the line) with an ad that will last damn near forever and get picked up and passed around to friends long after
those monthly magazines are tied up in bundles and tossed in the trash bin, <strong>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;color:white">Ad rates are competitive (slightly less, even) than similar-audience monthly magazines and, unlike those monthly magazines, they'll last until the middle of a nuclear winter or till the blessed
sun fizzles down to a cinder. Call (708) 383-7203 during regular office hours (I might actually be there) or e-mail me at <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=0016F3UobQuKWKdPHot5RCxubg0zPu3d4wQ15siILDeHFxj3rVC6CGOSFQ_QqjeaZAFRJc17T1NAkiS4Z_ySV4pFFxlX9sM03e4HpKujTbGFjbyHSsXIhqNQsp-yZ8Z_HyJZyZHRzIHkumorfsLWaHGPP3_pBSUaEYM-axl_uqukhwCfLjwfrQJTg==&c=tlKGUL8kiUO_TuKapfn-RyUbTvCAgEku0P3sNEfQTRkefxB0WeHWjQ==&ch=0d6XuWkMtDGIcjr3QGUASFA0wqv67kJFFJmz4C1z8ELLH1zeFhnkGQ==" target="_blank"><span style="color:yellow">thinkfast@mindspring.com</span></a> for
more details than you probably want to know.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size:16.0pt;color:white">INDIVIDUAL SPONSORS</span></strong><span style="font-size:16.0pt;color:white">: Okay, it's two-hunnert-and-fifty bucks American. And all you get for that is your name (or the name of a
special friend, spouse, loved one, racing buddy, crew chief, client, customer, deserving deceased individual or favorite bail bondsman) listed until the end of time (or, as above, until the sun fizzles out) on the sponsor page in the book. Plus one of the
nifty, exclusive, leather-bound, coffee-table-quality sponsor/advertiser special editions, a regular "beater" copy to actually read and a classy
<strong><i>"200mph STEAMROLLER Sponsor/Sucker"</i></strong> embroidered polo shirt that you will be proud to own but embarrassed to wear.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;color:white">We've made it real easy, too. Just
<strong><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=0016F3UobQuKWKdPHot5RCxubg0zPu3d4wQ15siILDeHFxj3rVC6CGOSPJSU2pdu_Ivgim0JwpPWBwgXISxP4B_p_fIiiBOonRhBbOrS3JGR56b5O8pvJAFKTG-hkPpnJo6OakFSJPD6QORzwIwFQbPivAyHXH2MV7cNHB7RaWe0L_fdXTE-voaw68OrK-n6UppsVvgcQOUDHs=&c=tlKGUL8kiUO_TuKapfn-RyUbTvCAgEku0P3sNEfQTRkefxB0WeHWjQ==&ch=0d6XuWkMtDGIcjr3QGUASFA0wqv67kJFFJmz4C1z8ELLH1zeFhnkGQ==" target="_blank"><span style="color:yellow">CLICK
HERE</span></a></strong> and you're in!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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group for $300, and you can also get fancy discounts on bigger ads if you really want to show off.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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in the book (lasts forever, remember)? See deal above.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;color:white">Again, the number to call is (708) 383-7203 (M-F 9-5 CDT unless I'm out screwing around someplace) or, better yet, shoot me an e-mail at
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is, but then I'd have to kill you) with a lot of very cool & significant cars tucked away in a really nondescript location not far from Chicago's loop. Including a rare & flamboyant Woodill Wildfire parked between a Kurtis (later to become the Muntz Jet) and
a Kaiser Darrin. Many other wonderful cars, too. Great stuff.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;color:black">Carol and I also attended the VSC Pot-Luck Luncheon/Garage-Crap Auction hosted by my longtime friend and onetime track nemesis John Welch at David Cooper's fascinating, amazing and always immaculate<strong><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=0016F3UobQuKWKdPHot5RCxubg0zPu3d4wQ15siILDeHFxj3rVC6CGOSPJSU2pdu_IvJNVTFf-3bm6hvnmOuYjIk9mZW7YwW8CfqLa5pMjzDGNhfwflDTz9EjkbK_GQrefOml1rkBsXk-aVBHIMyHOS_xxmJvQskXZrY903WZRCaKDMxRq_wOx8qg==&c=tlKGUL8kiUO_TuKapfn-RyUbTvCAgEku0P3sNEfQTRkefxB0WeHWjQ==&ch=0d6XuWkMtDGIcjr3QGUASFA0wqv67kJFFJmz4C1z8ELLH1zeFhnkGQ==" target="_blank">
COOPER TECHNICA</a> </strong> restoration shop in Chicago (click to see the website). The food was varied (!!!), excellent and provided in prodigious quantity (more "!!!"), the company was wonderful, there were some fabulous classic cars (see Bugatti, MG TC
and Citroen "Charleston" Deux-Chevaux below) and restoration projects on display.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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your life.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;color:black">But my favorite thing on hand was David Cooper's old, strange and wonderful French (David's a sick Francophile) metal-rolling contraption (see below).</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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do incredible things when it comes to forming svelte, swoopy hood and fender shapes out of flat sheet metal. Wow.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p align="center" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center"><strong><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:white">DON'T YOU HAVE ANYTHING BETTER TO DO?</span></strong><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;color:white">Last time I showed you a picture of my own ugly mug in a car several of you recognized. But none of you pedantic smart-asses from the other side of the pond got it (trumpet fanfare, please) while
we got many correct answers from one of your other one-time colonies just north of us.</span><span style="color:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;color:white">And that figures, since the track is Mosport (a place that I dearly love, even if it tends to shrink your balls up to the size of raisins) which sits a little ways northeast of Toronto. And the
car I'm in is the semi-famous (at least in Canada) V.A.Y. Special, which was built to run in something very intriguing & unique called "Canada Class" racing.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;color:white">Launched in 1955, Canada Class was aimed at north-of-the-border racers with little money, great ingenuity and long, long winters to putter around in the garage. It was an entire class of low-buck,
back-alley specials, and the rules were that you had to take the basic components from a popular, readily available economy sedan that sold new for less than $2000. Although most of the parts actually came from junkyards. It was a great class, real "budget
racing" and the V.A.Y. (which was originally based on Morris Minor components--including flathead motor and torsion-bar front suspension--although now it runs a Sprite 4-banger) won the class championship more than once. It's a swell car to drive, too.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;color:white">The gent in the red hat (which, by the way, has "VAY" embroidered right across the front of it, you dummies!) is Mike Rosen, who owned the car at the time and regularly drove the living snot out
of it (he made it go <em>really </em>fast whenever he got behind the wheel). Mike also served as one of the top guys in the Canadian
<strong><u> </u></strong></span><strong><span style="font-size:18.0pt;color:yellow"><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=0016F3UobQuKWKdPHot5RCxubg0zPu3d4wQ15siILDeHFxj3rVC6CGOSPJSU2pdu_IvXGvaZD_34H_BaHuQXymDHn7M12lcKNR0zzS2Ks2zEaKrA3KrhfnTA4hwxak3gTDvE_a0wE8gFSTwDYMn9Bx8JJwqe65I6HAC&c=tlKGUL8kiUO_TuKapfn-RyUbTvCAgEku0P3sNEfQTRkefxB0WeHWjQ==&ch=0d6XuWkMtDGIcjr3QGUASFA0wqv67kJFFJmz4C1z8ELLH1zeFhnkGQ==" target="_blank"><span style="color:yellow">VARAC</span></a></span></strong><span style="font-size:18.0pt;color:white">
vintage racing club (click to visit their website...you know the drill) up in Canada. They're great people to race with (and host weekends at both Mosport and Mount Tremblant, which are truly magnificent racetracks) and I recommend their events highly.</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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enthusiastic and involved a motorsports addict as you could ever hope to meet. He also had a habit of
<em>breeding</em> topnotch racing talent, as all three of his sons were exceptional drivers, totally fair, always fun and genuinely sportsmanlike. Not to mention fast as stink. I got to drive with their team a couple times (that's me in the Baker Racing Lotus
18 below, having one hell of a race with my friend Phil Lamont's similar car at Savannah) and they remain among my most cherished racing memories.</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><strong><span style="font-size:26.0pt;color:white">AND NOW: THE NEW TRIVIA!</span></strong><span style="font-size:26.0pt;color:white"><img border="0" width="600" id="_x0000_i1055" src="http://files.ctctcdn.com/dcb0791c201/e1e0bd4e-a9c6-486c-8d9e-823b018af9d6.jpg" hspace="5" vspace="5" name="ACCOUNT.IMAGE.821"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;color:white">OK, all you bright boys (and girls): what the hell is this thing?</span><span style="font-size:26.0pt;color:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="color:white">(Coming BS Sightings & Signings)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;color:white">OK, I'm gonna be right here finishing the book like I promised most of the time, but I will be sneaking away to cover the
</span><strong><span style="font-size:18.0pt;color:yellow"><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=0016F3UobQuKWKdPHot5RCxubg0zPu3d4wQ15siILDeHFxj3rVC6CGOSPJSU2pdu_IvXbEPvPBi_wCa0uHKWe626Hz3S44BZOXc4UDyeb61gCjYal0J9GJ7T0xIRxfMfeCZICEU6kaLPh0DrooaiYo8LLPNZv-uuigxK7mYzkcQtJ8xAZD7wuL94htmdvu542bthF1BTjZ9fD9O1T6MaDxeU30cnrsUVLmB&c=tlKGUL8kiUO_TuKapfn-RyUbTvCAgEku0P3sNEfQTRkefxB0WeHWjQ==&ch=0d6XuWkMtDGIcjr3QGUASFA0wqv67kJFFJmz4C1z8ELLH1zeFhnkGQ==" target="_blank"><span style="color:yellow">HSR
Mitty Challenge at Road Atlanta April 24-26,</span></a></span></strong><span style="font-size:18.0pt;color:white"> (click for more info) where I'll also be hawking & signing books (and hustling a few sponsorships, I hope) with my friends Frank and Amy at their
always-well-stocked-with-gearhead-books-and-goodies <strong>PEOPLE KARS</strong> booth up on the vendor row on the hill over the pro paddock. I'll be there during lunchtime all three days and quiet time on Sunday, and also every now and then throughout the
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;color:white">And buy some stuff, too....</span><span style="color:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;color:white">Also hope to be getting a little driving in at the helm of my longtime friend and serial ride-mooch victim "Super Dave" Bondon's just-finished Royale RP 42 (it's the white #72 in the pic below)
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;color:white">Super Dave has turned me loose in his cars several times (he's a slow learner) and I've enjoyed every one because they're inevitably well-turned-out and beautifully prepared. See semi-famous pic
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;color:white">That's all for now....</span><span style="color:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;color:white">Ta,ta!</span><span style="color:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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