[Spridgets] Microcar Show and Elkhart Lake KIC

[Ron Soave]

What an amazing collection of typos below. Sorry about that. This laptop keyboard only works when you shake it like an etch-a-sketch. I really need a new computer.


--- On Sat, 7/26/08, Ron Soave <soavero at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Ron Soave <soavero at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: Microcar Show and Elkhart Lake KIC
> To: "Spridgets" <spridgets at autox.team.net>
> Date: Saturday, July 26, 2008, 12:24 AM
> I got overruled and am going to see the Batman movie at the
> Madison Imax tomorrow. Tomorrow evening I really want to
> button up White Trash for Grattan if you guys get bored
> afterward. Putting the motor back in solo without a proper
> hoist gets old after a while.
> 
> BTW - no one mentioned last week what an incredible time
> Road America's Kohler Int'l Classic was. An
> incredible array of cars this year with some very cool new
> blood, both at the track and Concours, with our own Terry
> "Tutone" Heffron judging. Tutone has the single
> most encyclopedic level of vintage car knowledge of anyone
> you will ever meet - I think he even trumps our VSCDA
> historian. At points it can go like this - "Wow! A
> 1957 Flugelwaggen Special, one of 3 made! This si the one
> that nearly ran the Ring when one of the Porsche drivers
> ordered the fish at the pre-race dinner with a guy named
> Herrman cooking and got food poisoning and almost droed
> out. That car had ties to Ettore Bugatti in that his
> barber's nephew's daughter's fiance worked in
> the pit crew as the gas ca remover. The tires on that one
> are a slightly darker shade on the original that you see in
> all the Flugelwaggen books, but these may have been the
> second set that come from Michelin on
>  that day when the power went out between 11:22 and 11:27
> in Aril of 157 during second shift. You remember that,
> right?" The whether miraculously held out, too.
> 
> Soave
> 
> --- On Fri, 7/25/08, David Lieb
> <dbl at chicagolandmgclub.com> wrote:
> > Sounds good to me. Trish and I should be there to
> greet
> > you.