[Spridgets] Donna Mae Mims dies

[Bud Osbourne]

Buster,
I suspect that Steel Cities Region will run some sort of biography of Donna 
Mae in an upcoming issue of The Drift.  Would your friend mind if I passed 
Mr. Clemens' note along to the club's editor?  They may want to print it.
I will, of course, get a copy of The Drift, if such an article is printed, 
and pass it along to Spridget Talk.
Thanks.
Bud Osbourne
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Evans" <b-evans at earthlink.net>
To: <spridgets at autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, October 12, 2009 1:10 PM
Subject: Re: [Spridgets] Donna Mae Mims dies


> Those of you who were at the BusterCluster will remember Al Clemens, the
> professional photographer who with his wife Carol bought their Sprite in
> Memphis at the same time I did.  Since Al, Carol and Donna Mae were racing
> friends in the 1960s, I sent him the news of her passing.  You might be
> interested in one of his reminiscences
>
>
>
> "I hate that.  I thought the world of Donna Mae, although after she
> "graduated" from H Production, she never did too well.  One of the last
> races Carol ran while we lived in Memphis was a national race in St. 
> Louis.
> I couldn't go, so Phillip (Herold at Small Car Motors) showed Carol how to
> install the roll bar.  He de-tuned the Sprite and gave her specific
> instructions on re-tuning it and de-tuning it again.  She drove to St. 
> Louis
> alone, set the Sprite up and raced.  She and Donna Mae (in her pink 
> Sprite)
> were the only women there.  Donna Mae was intrigued by the little girl who
> came alone and they became friends, even though Carol came in dead last 
> (but
> second in womens' class).  Carol, with help from Donna Mae's pit crew,
> de-tuned the Sprite and drove it home, tired and sleepy, but very happy."